Economy in Building Construction

Preamble :

To reduce building costs for middle and low income housing, slum replacement and industrial housing, experiments have been conducted in India covering last several years on methods of reducing construction costs, on different items like room size, height of rooms, nature, depth, width and thickness of foundation, thickness and nature of wallss, floors, size and nature of doors and windows, staircase, roofing, flooring ancilleries, etc. as well as on method of layout of blocks lengthwise, and height wise and in isolated units.