Towards Sustainable Human Settlements: A Low ... - Alive2green
Towards Sustainable Human Settlements: A Low ... - Alive2green
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Background<br />
• Department of Science and Technology (DST) funding for CSIR<br />
research and development (R&D) in low-income housing arena in 2006<br />
• Objective: Use science, engineering and technology (SET) to support<br />
sustainable human settlements<br />
• Research question: How can innovative technologies be applied to<br />
existing low-income housing design and construction - at no or low<br />
extra costs - to improve building performance and sustainability<br />
• Research objective: Scientifically determine shortcomings of default 40<br />
m 2 low-income house and then integrate, apply and test appropriate<br />
innovative technologies to overcome those shortcomings<br />
• Desired outcome: Improved low-income housing performance – i.e.,<br />
more comfortable, durable, quicker to build, readily alterable, easily<br />
extendable, and less dependent on municipal services.
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