With land costs and cost of development on the ascent, owning a house in urban communities remains a fantasy for the working class. However, it may soon be a relic of past times, graciousness IIT Madras and its endeavors to advance the savvy, fast and eco-accommodating technique for development utilizing Glass Fiber Reinforced Gypsum (GFRG) boards.

After the effective development of a two-story working at the IIT grounds in June this year utilizing GFRG boards, specialists from the structural designing branch of the establishment are near a concurrence with Tata Housing Development Corporation Ltd to manufacture a lodging venture at Boisar, a suburb in Mumbai, for low-pay bunches.

The GFRG building technique basically utilizes glass filaments and extraordinarily calcined gypsum mortar to make the general board more grounded and water safe.

As indicated by the auxiliary outline engineer for the GFRG working at IIT-M and PhD researcher at the structural designing office, the establishment for the building is laid in the customary way and GFRG boards are utilized for raising the remaining superstructure with least solid utilization aside from at the joints and pits of the board. Once the establishment is developed and the boards are raised, the principle structure can be inherent a couple days.