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Drivers that help adopting stabilised earth construction to address urban low-cost housing crisis: an understanding by construction professionals

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Addressing urban housing crisis is an enormous challenge for most of the countries due to the increasing cost of the building material. Therefore, affordable alternative building material can make a breakthrough to the urban housing crisis. In the light of current success of stabilised earth construction in urban low-cost housing, it is important to find out the potential drivers that can help to adopt this building material. This paper aims to identify and highlight these drivers from the method of literature review and validates through a Delphi technique.

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Zami, M.S. Drivers that help adopting stabilised earth construction to address urban low-cost housing crisis: an understanding by construction professionals. Environ Dev Sustain 13, 993–1006 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-011-9301-0

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