Perspective Chapter: Prefabricated Single-Family House of Reinforced Concrete on Two Levels Prepared at the Foot of the Work and Built in a Short Time

Abstract

A technical design of a prefabricated single-family house of reinforced concrete on two levels is developed, to serve and assist populations in need of housing and can also be used for populations in post-emergency circumstances, due to telluric causes, landslides, floods, and others, since it is required to replace destroyed houses in a short time. It exposes a production process of precast reinforced concrete elements, to be produced in the same place of the work, with a minimum of equipment and tools that exist in a small city. It is intended to establish a low-cost construction system with precast reinforced concrete elements, which will become a technological alternative to the traditional confined masonry construction. It presents six types of two-level houses. Likewise, it exposes the building process, the costs, and assembly of the building with prefabricated elements. The basic criterion is to manufacture the elements that do not exceed the capacity of the size of the manufacturing, transport, and assembly equipment. A simple process for assembly is examined, the lowest cost is determined, in terms of direct costs, and an analysis per square meter of building will be established.