House built using the Koto Housing technology. One such technology is the expanded polystyrene (EPS) technology, which involves construction of houses by assembling ready-made foam sandwiched between a galvanised steel wire mesh plastered on both sides with concrete. The government is expected to develop 8,200 houses in a pilot project at Mavoko with some of the houses to be built using EPS. In addition, said Mr Saisi, the houses can withstand a lot of shock from earthquakes better than those built using brick and stone. But with EPS technology, the steel mesh provides reinforcement throughout the structure,” said Saisi.

Source: Standard Digital March 04, 2021 06:00 UTC