Low Cost Roof System For Rural Housing

We analyze the building costs and its break up, it is observed that the main components of the building are foundation, wall, roof, door & window, flooring and finishing etc. The maximum expenditure for rural houses after construction of walls is in roofs which is 25 % of total expenditure. Therefore, to reduce the cost of the roof of the rural houses this study was under-taken. Necessary sustainable cost-effective techniques are developed for supporting system by use of Bamboo roof trusses and Bamboo spaced column for costeffective rural huts. The average cost break-up of rural hut are shown as below A rural house is a structure providing the suitable place for protecting rural people from heat, cold, rain and wild animals. It can be built with different types of roof covering materials like thatch, tiles, slate, galvanized iron sheets and corrugated asbestos sheets over a supporting structure at present it is a baulk or trunk of a tree and the mud walls.