UNB, Dhaka :
A move is underway to build some 1,320 low-cost flats for low- and middle-income groups in the city under
public-private partnership (PPP).
The proposed apartments, equipped with all modern amenities, will be built by creating a satellite town on 5 acres of land of the National Housing Authority (NHA) at Section-9 in the city’s Mirpur area.
A feasibility study was also conducted to implement the project using a new technology-Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) – in stead of the existing civil construction technology to keep their construction cost relatively at a lower level.
As per the project concept, the government will provide the lands as capital investment while the private sector will bear the construction cost.
About the project’s necessity, Housing and Public Works Secretary Mohammad Moinuddin Abdullah said the housing facility in Dhaka city is lower compared to the growing demand.
“Though the demand is growing fast, the housing facility is not increasing-neither in
public sector nor private sector,” he said in a proposal put forward to the Cabinet Economic Affairs Committee.
“From this point of view, the NHA has taken up the initiative to construct the satellite town with multistoried buildings at Mirpir,” he mentioned in the proposal.
The concept of implementing the project under PPP by using the ICF technology came on the table following the submission of an unsolicited offer by two private firms- Godek International and Novel Building Technology.
But when the project proposal was put forward to the PPP Office of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), it examined the proposal and finally placed it to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) for its approval. The Cabinet body gave its nod to the proposal in principle to implement it under PPP initiative, but asked the NHA to form an expert committee to examine the technical viability of the project through using the new technology of Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) since this technology is totally new in the country.
A move is underway to build some 1,320 low-cost flats for low- and middle-income groups in the city under
public-private partnership (PPP).
The proposed apartments, equipped with all modern amenities, will be built by creating a satellite town on 5 acres of land of the National Housing Authority (NHA) at Section-9 in the city’s Mirpur area.
A feasibility study was also conducted to implement the project using a new technology-Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) – in stead of the existing civil construction technology to keep their construction cost relatively at a lower level.
As per the project concept, the government will provide the lands as capital investment while the private sector will bear the construction cost.
About the project’s necessity, Housing and Public Works Secretary Mohammad Moinuddin Abdullah said the housing facility in Dhaka city is lower compared to the growing demand.
“Though the demand is growing fast, the housing facility is not increasing-neither in
public sector nor private sector,” he said in a proposal put forward to the Cabinet Economic Affairs Committee.
“From this point of view, the NHA has taken up the initiative to construct the satellite town with multistoried buildings at Mirpir,” he mentioned in the proposal.
The concept of implementing the project under PPP by using the ICF technology came on the table following the submission of an unsolicited offer by two private firms- Godek International and Novel Building Technology.
But when the project proposal was put forward to the PPP Office of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), it examined the proposal and finally placed it to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) for its approval. The Cabinet body gave its nod to the proposal in principle to implement it under PPP initiative, but asked the NHA to form an expert committee to examine the technical viability of the project through using the new technology of Insulated Concrete Form (ICF) since this technology is totally new in the country.
