Low Cost Housing International Ltd. (LCH)
(Stabilized Earth Brick (SEB) Technology)
Why choose LCH?
As a successful part of The
RoadPacker Group of companies we benefit hugely from the soil
stabilization research and development undertaken by RoadPacker
International Ltd. LCH offers a complete
package for the provision of low/medium cost housing.
Our housing technology is very simple – an
interlocking clay brick system, treated with our ionic clay stabilizer
formula. This alters
the clay and improves its engineering properties - including compaction,
density, bearing strength and safety (i.e. – fire).
This provides a low cost, durable product that can meet
the needs of the millions of low cost housing units required
annually around the world.
LCH has provided products
and services to the housing industry since 1998. We have expanded
products and services to include special community re-development projects,
incorporating environmental management with effective social and community
sustainable modelling.
What's it all about?
 The
primary purpose of LCH/RoadPacker, SEB
technology is to support and encourage low cost housing in
any country where there is a distinct lack of conventional housing. Our biggest
advantage - is that our response is immediate. Not only can our product be
used in the planned creation of new permanent communities - but more dynamically
in the unplanned event of natural disasters. When typhoons, flooding, and
earthquakes render thousands of people homeless - the immeasurable benefits
of this system of home building really kick in. The ability
of disaster rescue units to offer immediate effective assistance is dramatically
enhanced because they need very few raw materials. They can move into a declared
disaster area and begin to provide the rudimentary requirements for that
community to return to a position of normalcy.
Benefits of the SEB building system
- it is truly low cost
- it is the most energy efficient building system
- it produces attractive buildings of high strength
- it has a host of environmental advantages over other building systems
- it uses the most widely available and least expensive building material
in the world - earth
- it involves unskilled local people in erection of the buildings -
thereby encouraging 'ownership'.
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