Shelter to live is a basic need. Own house to live is a dream of every family. With the current economic situation, be a owner of a own house is little far away from a achievable level of a average person in sri lankan society.
Rising material and labour cost as well as the incresing lending interest rates, take this dream far away , day by day.
With the advancement of the construction technologies in the world construction industry, there are so many improved and proven advanced construction methodologies are available to reduce the construction cost by considerable level. There are several methodologies which can be used in Sri Lankan conditions which have been used in all over the world for several decades without any problem.
"Huge Rubble foundation" and "brick wall" mentality of general public, blocks these technologies to play in Sri Lankan grounds. The general believe of Sri lankan Society that holes in cheap things (Laaba Baduwe Hilak Athe !) also block these technologies to comes in to the sri lankan construction industry.
But the main obstacle of these technologies is the un availability of skilled workers, protesting and criticizing of these methodologies by the existing village level construction advisers generally , famous head mason in the village since his un awareness of these technologies and the low labour component which directly effect to the revenue as the labour cost influence these advisers to criticize these methodologies.
But we could identified some of these technologies used in building low cost small houses or in donated shelters by NGO's in Tsunami rehabilitation Era.
These technologies can be used to build semi Luxury houses and super luxury houses without any problem and reduce the total construction cost by 35% to 50 % according to the design and the extent which we can use these new technologies to the particular design.
Low labour cost ..lesser income to workers ..they criticize
Low material cost ... lesser income to material suppliers...they criticize
Low Total cost ...lesser income to designers ...they criticize
Low Total cost ...lesser income to technical officers who prepare Estimates..they Criticize..
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