National Housing Corporation starts prefabricating building components

 

NHC factory starts churning our prefab panels
The National Housing Corporation (NHC) has begun construction of houses using prefabricated panels from its Mavoko Factory. The introduction of prefab houses into the Kenyan market is one of the ways the housing corporation is looking to improve the efficiency of meeting a housing deficit in the country.
NHC Managing Director James Ruitha said the technology reduces the time taken to put up housing by up to 50 percent and diminishes the cost by about 20 percent. read on: http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/2011/09/19/nhc-factory-starts-churning-our-prefab-panels/

Hope for cheaper homes as NHC puts up plant to make materials

Middle and low income home hunters will be relieved by the end of this year when a factory being set up by a State corporation starts producing affordable housing materials. National Housing Corporation is putting up buildings in Mavoko to host the plant that will produce prefabricated materials with the aim of stepping up efforts to provide homes in the country. read on: http://www.nation.co.ke/business/news/Hope+for+cheaper+homes+as+NHC+puts+up+plant+to+make+materials/-/1006/1125504/-/kn6yi6z/-/index.html