Introduction

One of the major challenges of any government is to provide an adequate housing for its residents. The challenge is even greater with low income residents who cannot afford to own a house. Kuwait is a pioneer in the region in providing governmental housing to its citizens since 1954. Providing an adequate housing for low income families is the principal objective of the Kuwait Public Authority for Housing Welfare. It has built thousands of low cost houses and plans to build thousands more in the coming few years.
Kuwait Low Cost Housing Conference & Exhibition aims to address the challenges and issues related to area of low cost housing. It will bring together governmental and municipal officials as well as researchers, architects , consultants, builders, master developers, contractors, planners, bankers, mortgage professionals to discuss new trends, exchange experiences and presents case studies.
Kuwait Low Cost Housing Conference & Exhibition provides companies, architects and consultants with a valuable opportunity to showcase their products and solutions to top decision makers in this vital market.

Objectives

1. Exchange of knowledge, experiences and best practices in the field of low cost housing.
2. Identifying recent construction and building technologies to lower the cost of constructing residential buildings.
3. Innovative trends in financing low cost housing projects.

1. Government Policies to provide affordable housing.
2. Legislative framework for housing laws and regulations.
3. Provision process and Planning strategies for low cost housing (infra structure– services– lands- utilities).
4. Design criteria for low cost buildings (energy- environment- social issues- cultural appropriateness).
5. Management of low cost housing projects.

Second: International and Local Experiences in the Field of Low Cost Housing

Third: Building Materials, Systems and Technologies

1. Recent technologies for constructing low cost housing units.
2. Construction, IT & Expert System and Standardization.
3. Advancements in building materials and systems.

Fourth: Low Cost Housing Finance Methods:

1. Role of the government.
2. Role of the private sector, banks and financial institutions.
3. Public and private sectors partnership ( BOT, PPP projects).

If you would like the opportunity to participate in Kuwait Low Cost Housing Conference as a speaker or workshop leader, please contact Mr. Hudhaib Al-Allatti at   This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it   as soon as possible (December 1st , 2009 at the very latest). Include the following brief details of your proposed presentation: title, abstract, a few sentences of biographical information that relate you to the topic, and full contact information (title, address, e-mail, phone & fax) for you and any co-presenters. All abstracts will be reviewed by the Organizing/Review Committee and notification regarding acceptance will be made in due time.

We appreciate your interest and welcome your submission. The organizers reserve the right to review and accept only those speaking requests deemed suitable for the program. Unfortunately, we are unable to contact everyone who submits a request in order to provide the status of their submission. Please be assured that you will be contacted if your submission is chosen. While we cannot guarantee you will be selected, we will keep your name and submission in our session submission and potential speaker database and will contact you should an opening arise that fits your qualifications. We sincerely thank you for your interest.