Lafarge Affordable Housing Oct14
- 2. Affordable Housing Our definition Housing for people who do not have access by usual financial ways to decent housing Emerging countries: 4 billion people (Base of the pyramid) Developed countries: 150 million people without decent house conditions Our objective: build new markets for Lafarge and improve housing conditions Part of our Innovation & Transformation Programme Part of our Sustainability ambitions: improving housing conditions for 2 million people by 2020 A dedicated team in Paris and local projects embedded within the marketing teams of Lafarge subsidiaries 2 A business and social opportunity A unique business initiative across the industry which improved the housing conditions of 300,000 people since 2013
- 3. 4 types of business initiatives 3 MICROFINANCE EARTH&CEMENT SLUM REHABILITATION MASS AFFORDABLE HOUSING Customer issue: Indivual home builders access to finance Our solution, based on our cement bags retailers network: Providing access to credits & technical assistance (catalogues of house designs, bill of quantities, ... ) Customer issue: looking for durable solution without concrete Our solution: Mix of cement and soil to produce non burnt clay bricks, keeping asthetic and thermal inertia of earth construction ( Customer issue: looking for good waterproof solution Our solution: Bagged concrete supplied to small customers in informal settlements Customer issue: quality & speed of large scale projects Our solution: Lafarge works with developers to improve quality & speed of construction.
- 4. 18 countries with Affordable Housing projects 4
- 5. Housing Microfinance (1/2) 5 A Complete Housing Solution for Individual Home Builders Access to financing Technical assistance Access to Retailers Construction solutions Site visits , plans & budgetsCatalogs Complete Housing Solution IHBs HotlineTrained masons Concrete blocks offer Modular houses for bit-by-bit construction Roofing solutions Trained & competitive Microfinance Institutions For home extensions & renovation For new homes, built bit-by-bit Pick-up of materials Availability of products & prices checked Trained to basic construction technical assistance Tablet App
- 6. 6 Examples of projects: Indonesia Housing Microfinance (2/2) 1 2 3 4 5 n属1: 5k$, house for rent, owner selling in traditional market n属2: 6k$, new house, wife owns a small shop n属3: 2k$, renovation floor, walls and ceiling, employee n属4: 2,5k$, house extension, owner sells traditional food n属5: 4,5k$, New house, employee in a garage
- 7. Needs for new solutions 2 billion people live in earth-based homes Individual houses are mainly built of mud brick or burnt clay brick Environmental issues : Increasing deforestation due partially to the use of woof for clay bricks burning Low resistance to monsoons, requesting owners to rebuild houses every year Urgency of finding constructive solutions in Africa, Asia and LATAM, providing durability comfort at a reasonable price Our offer: Stabilized soil bricks mixing earth, sand and cement Advantages Use of local materials ( earth sand ) On-site and easy fabrication Standardized form Durability of the product against shock, rain and insects. Pilot started in Malawi in 2013, now being replicated in 8 countries Earth & Cement projects 7 A construction opportunity in emerging countries
- 8. Slum rehabilitation projects Needs in self-built neighborhoods 100 million urban Indians live in self-built neighborhoods Many small contractors are building individual, low rise houses Key aspects of the demand make ready-mix concrete an attractice solution Quality (perceived) and time are highly valued, accessibility and transport are often challenging Our pilot in Mumbai Dedicated mini ready-mix plant located next to the slum area Delivery (on rickshaws) of 30 liters bag of fresh concrete, using special mix design 8 Example in India
- 9. Mass Affordable Housing (1/2) Situation Government & developers are looking for new constructions solutions to Build faster Social Housing projects Improve the quality & perception of such projects (aesthetic, durability) Lafarge approach Identification & test of construction systems to optimize cost, speed, quality and durability Research Center in France & Construction Development Labs Facilate implementation of such projects Lafarge Construction Specialists in countries Ready-mix business line 9 Addressing the needs for Social Housing in emerging countries Illustrations Coffor Integrated structural formwork
- 10. Mass Affordable Housing (2/2) Innovative construction system for multiple storey housing allowing construction modularity Project currently developed with a municipality near Bordeaux, a social housing promoter and an architect. Support from Lafarge to the architect on technical specifications. Development of such new construction systems could take the form an investment in architects 10 New social housing in developed economies: e.g. in France
- 11. Contacts Fran巽ois PERROT francois.perrot@lafarge.com Tel: +33 1 44 34 92 66 Jean HANOTEAU jean.hanoteau@lafarge.com Tel: +33 1 44 34 19 12 http://www.lafarge.com/affordablehousing/ 11 Paris team