Affordable Housing Project - 6

SINCE THE PERIMETER of the Morán Ballesteros family's house was finished (according to the information I shared with you through my anterior post); now, by this new post, I would like to share about activities that took place in the sixth day of execution of the Affordable and Safe Housing Pilot Plan which is part of the CHOI's Housing Project. This new working day involved the start of the making of the interior walls for the kitchen and a bedroom. It was used 4 mm superboard panels (drywall) and wood tables to form the walls. These panels, as well as wood tables, were provided by CHOI.

The walls of the kitchen and that bedroom will allow to form, at the same time, the living room and dining room. There will be a corridor between the kitchen and that bedroom leading to the back of the house. Meanwhile, more green concrete blocks were set up on the ground to keep expanding the floor.

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Affordable Housing Project - 5

SEVERAL DAYS HAVE GONE BY since the beginning of the execution of the Affordable and Safe Housing Pilot Plan promoted by the CHOI's Housing Project. Little by little the Morán Ballesteros family is seeing as their old house is becoming a new and different one. So far and by my previous post, you have learnt that workers have started to make the side wall or perimeter of the house. Now it is time to share with you all what workers have made in the fifth working day of this demo. Well, in this new activity, workers continued making the house perimeter by assembling more papercrete panels and holding them together using wood tables and screws.

Even, more concrete blocks were set up on the ground to form the floor of a new bedroom. At the end of the working day the house perimeter was finished successfully. Workers are doing a good job under direction of the Eng. Pablo Muguerza who is in charge of the technical part.

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Affordable Housing Project - 4

THROUGH MY ANTERIOR POST you have learnt about the third working day running the Affordable and Safe Housing Pilot Plan that is part of the Housing Project impulsed by CHOI to provide affordable and safe houses for the poor families of Chimbote. In this new activity, corresponding to the fourth working day, workers have started building the side wall (perimeter) of the Morán Ballesteros family's house. To achieve this, they had to assemble several papercrete panels by using wood tables and screws. At the same time other workers were placing more concrete blocks on the ground to keep completing the floor of the house. It is expected to finish the perimeter the next working day.

Since workers continue to work, the family members stay at the back of their house. They feel very happy even can hardly believe what their eyes see, their own house being built. Eng. Pablo Muguerza, as always, lead the pilot plan. The CHOI's executive director Mr. Orlando Bermúdez often visits the place to know by himself how the progress of the demo is going. Mr. Jorge Villar also visits the site often.

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Affordable Housing Project - 3

I AM HERE AGAIN TO KEEP SHARING with you all on the progress of the implementation of the affordable and safe housing demo for the Morán Ballesteros family living here in Chimbote - Perú. As you know, this demo is part of CHOI's housing project. So far, I have shared about the first and second day of activities of the pilot plan. Through this new post, you are going to know on the third day of activities that involved the making of the front wall of the house, by assembling papercrete panels, and the placement of more concrete blocks on the ground in order to keep making the floor.

So, from early in the morning until afternoon, workers hired by CHOI and some members of the Morán Ballesteros family were working to keep in the making of the floor and in the assembly of the front wall. Eng. Pablo Muguerza was present the whole time overseeing the right execution of the work. Mr. Jaime Morán together with his chilcren are very happy of seeing that their house is formed gradually.

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Affordable Housing Project - 2

CONTINUING WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION of the affordable housing demo (that is part of CHOI's Home Improvement Program: Better House, Better Life that will benefit the Morán Ballesteros family, a very poor family) and having been completed the anterior labor (leveling process of the ground); by this post I want to share the next activity that took place in their house some days ago. This new activity started with the placement of  the first concrete blocks on the ground of what will be the living room and dining room of the house. Little by little the floor made of affordable products was being formed. At the same time other workes, hired by CHOI, were preparing the first papercret panel to place it as one of the several panels that will form the perimeter walls of the house.

As the time went by, more concrete blocks were placed on the ground leveling them one by one. Papercrete panels stayed standing firmly because they were screwed to wood which also helped to unite panel to panel. While this work was doing, more panels and wood were brought to the place. In my next post I will share more about progress of this demo.

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Affordable Housing Project - 1

THE MORÁN BALLESTEROS FAMILY, living in extreme conditions of poverty, was chosen to execute the first housing pilot plan using affordable products: Concrete blocks for floor and papercrete panels for walls; which are being made by the affordable housing project which belongs to the new program from CHOI called Home Improvement Program: Better House Better Life. The project already has the quantity needed of these products to build this kind of house for this family. So, I will share with you, through this post, on the first activity performed of this pilot plan or demo, which was about carrying out the leveling process of the ground of the property, using sand and small rocks, in which Mr. Evaristo Morán Campos, the family father, together with his children and some workers hired by CHOI were working.

Mr. Orlando Bermúdez, CHOI executive director is monitoring the pilot plan and, as usual, the Eng. Pablo Muguerza, is leadering and overseeing the site activities, as responsible for the technical part. After the leveling process was over, blocks and panels were brought to the Morán Ballesteros' house which will be used in construction. This way everything is ready to start installing these products and building the house.

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Economical Building Materials

FLOOR CONCRETE BLOCKS and Walls Papercrete Panels are being built in progressive quantities. This activity is part of the pilot plan of the affordable housing project belonging to the Home Improvemente Program - HIP: Better House Better Life, which is currently being implemented by the non-profit organization CHOI as one of its recent ones focused now on housing. Previously I have shared, through my blog, on the beginning of this housing project, which started as a need to provide affordable building materials, to build houses, to those families living specially in poor neighborhoods here in Chimbote. Execution of this project involved many progressive activities from the deficient making of the first prototipes of these products, which did not pass the laboratoy test, to the making of the last prototipes that did pass successfully the laboratoy tests, including the fire test in the case of papercrete panels, finishing this way the period of quality control tests that were made to them.

The place chosen, to the making in great quantities of concrete blocks and papercrete panels (while seeking a more suitable place) was a part of the secoond floor of the Youth House, which is presently the headquartes of CHOI. This property belongs to the Provincial Municipality of Santa. So, since over two months ago, masons hired by CHOI were and continue making these products supervised by the skilled guidance of the Eng. Pablo Muguerza Toro, responsible for the technical part of this project.

So, they are continuing to make 40cm x 40cm sized concrete blocks in three colors: Red, blue and green but they may be made using other types of colors also. At the same time they are making 2mt x 1mt sized papercrete panels. As a result of this making there is an acceptable quantity of these products, so far, ready to be used to build an affordable house. These products were used, for the very first time, to make the floor and to build the kitchen for the soup kitchen located in "25 de Mayo" neighborhood. I will share on this later. Also they are being used to build an affordable housing demo in "10 de Setiembre" neighborhood.

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