Rare To Hear: Future Homes

If you’re planning to build a new home, and want it to be durable, unique, environment friendly and supremely livable, and then you might want to consider STEEL!

The concept of steel house may be strange to most of the people. These steel houses are slowly gaining bit popularity these days. it is a growing trend, especially in countries like India. Some communities in the United States condominium and townhouse association halls, and new health care facilities are being designed with steel, and the concept of residential steel buildings and homes is being tested in the U.S. with good results.

WHY STEEL?

To start with, the Steel House demonstrates the use of lightweight steel components to create a robust, transportable dwelling with a modernist aesthetic. Steel has many advantages as a structural material. It has a very high strength to weight ratio – a little goes a long way in structural terms. Although steel uses considerable energy in its initial manufacture, it can be formed into precisely engineered sections to ensure that no material is wasted. And steel can be easily re-used and re-cycled at the end of a structure’s life. In addition, a steel frame does not warp or rot, it doesn’t burn or add fuel to bush fires, and it is impervious to termite attack.

Everyone might think that the temperature inside a steel house would be very high during hot summer months, but that is not true. The proven fact is that, the steel houses built in India revealed that, on average, the steel house was one degree cooler in summer than a concrete home. The chief architect of these Indian steel homes says that is because steel walls are smoother than concrete and reflect more light, and because many of the materials he uses in designing the steel structure have an aluminum coating that increases reflective capacity.

Some of the key features of the steel houses are:

• Lightweight and readymade construction
• Weather-proof design
• Protection against cyclone, floods
• Steels homes could be built in shorter time frame using pre-fabricated steel and local materials
• Long lasting and easy maintenance
• Environment friendly
• Easier to build in rural areas where the bricks, sands, stone chips are scarce.
• Use of water above plinth level is minimized as steel homes are dry constructions.
• 10 per cent more living space than traditional homes.
• Less skilled labor is needed for construction

We will be seeing lots of such environment friendly steel houses in the near future.

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