Category Archives: Success Stories

Commercial Housing Markets

A local construction company is taking full advantage of the highly cost-effective Hydraform Building System to build commercial housing projects in Nairobi… Kenya has a housing crisis: Only 35 000 new units are developed each year against an estimated demand of 150 000 units. One of the key factors impeding adequate, affordable and decent housing […]

Enabling Community Development

Hydraform’s relationship with the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority began in early 2012 and sprang from the need for a sustainable housing solution. The Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) is an independent agency for coordinating a comprehensive development agenda for the northern savannah ecological zone in Ghana. SADA’s main objective is to promote sustainable development while […]

Delivering En Masse Green Housing

National Housing Corporation (NHC) Tanzania is responsible for affordable quality housing delivery in that country. Since its formation, NHC has embarked on more than 5 000 units of affordable housing projects all over the country. The reference project in Dar es Salaam involved the construction of 201 houses using the Hydraform Building System. Analysis after […]

Tackling A Housing Crisis

As has happened elsewhere in Africa, the housing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo has assumed epidemic proportions. Hydraform is once again on the front line in the fight against poverty, hunger and joblessness through an association with the volunteer corps of the Confédération Syndicale du Congo (CVC), a trade union confederation, and the […]