The basic construction materials industry and today’s vast housing shortage
This paper documents some of the aspects of the major challenge facing world-wide building: humanity's daunting shortage of basic housing, monographically focusing on what this means for the basic building materials industry. These needs have created the greatest demand ever for ex-novo solutio...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2008-12-01
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Series: | Materiales de Construccion |
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Online Access: | http://materconstrucc.revistas.csic.es/index.php/materconstrucc/article/view/121 |
Summary: | This paper documents some of the aspects of the major challenge facing world-wide building: humanity's daunting shortage of basic housing, monographically focusing on what this means for the basic building materials industry. These needs have created the greatest demand ever for ex-novo solutions and an exponential increase in slum rehabilitation and improvement, translated here into the need for construction materials and more specifically, cement, as the emblematic component of buildings. |
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ISSN: | 0465-2746 1988-3226 |