Large Panel Prefabricated Housing Project by Tamil Nadu Housing Board

The traditional methods of construction in India consist of craft based processes like masonry, carpentary, bar bending etc. used in masonry construction or reinforced concrete. These processes involve lesser investment in equipment and capital finance and provide employment to large number of people and are therefore suited to the conditions prevailing in our country. Therefore, traditional materials and building techniques would continue to be of advantage in building low cost large scale housing projects. Still however, in urban centres especially in metropolitan cities where we face huge backlog of housing, it has become a matter of urgency to build large number of houses economically at a fast rate to wipe out the shortage In the metropolitan city of Madras, the housing shortage as on 1st July 1970 has been estimated as 3.37 lakhs.