Government support for industrialized housing: steel structures improve building quality
The secretary of Iran's National Union of Mass Housing Builders stressed the need for more government support for industrialized construction and said that one way to industrialize is to use steel structures.
According to the public relations office of ISTACO Steel Structures, Farshid Pourhajat, visiting the company's stand at the international building industry exhibition, emphasized the need for stronger government support for industrialized construction and said: for years we have been talking about the strong capacity of the private sector, especially in the country's construction industry, and today we have no shortage of housing production, building materials or technical know-how.
The union's secretary added that a wide range of our entrepreneurs invest in industrialization and new technologies, and development organizations such as the engineering system organization and the government must plan to support and promote the use of new and industrial technologies. He added that more than 600,000 engineers have been trained for the construction industry, but how to make use of this capacity depends on the government, which must provide the ground for the growth and use of human resources.
On the effect of steel structures on the construction industry, Pourhajat said: there was a time when concrete structures were considered more economical, but that is no longer the case; steel structures are better by a small margin in project speed, return on investment, standards and safety. He stressed that steel structures are produced industrially in a factory, whereas concrete structures are built on site with minimal supervision.
Stressing greater convergence among private-sector associations in developing the industry, he reminded: we are all one family in the construction industry and this sector is a continuous chain; this continuity must be maintained, and the very nature of civil institutions is convergence and interaction.