Lightweight Fiber-Reinforced Houses

Alex Liew Chung Meng, an innovator of Lightweight Concrete Methodology (LCM) for low-cost housing, has been approached by a Kolkata-based construction company, which has secured an order to build 18,000 low-cost housing units. To begin with, Alex constructed a sample unit comprising of a single floor with two rooms in an area of 550 sq ft (the approved low-cost unit size by the authorities). Each unit cost around USD 3,000.00.

Alex Liew has spent 20 years researching and developing a low-cost construction method using waste and has employed unskilled workers to cast the earthquake- and cyclone-proof houses. By building the sample unit for the construction company, he wants to spread awareness of the low-cost casting and fast construction methodology to more and more contractors so that India and other poorer countries can make durable Lightweight Fiber Reinforced houses for the poor and homeless.

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