MetroCorp, Ritek Building Solutions ’ international licensing partner in India, recently won an award at the World Habitat Day 2009 Celebrations in Delhi.

Further to Ritek’s recent signing of an International Licensing Agreement with MetroCorp in India, MetroCorp won an award for National Level Affordable Housing Design Idea Competition using wall systems from Sunshine Coast based company Ritek Building Solutions. 

Ritek is proud to be associated with MetroCorp who won the award and looks forward to the ongoing delivery of low cost wasll systems for housing projects. Ritek is currently working on further licensing agreements throughout Africa and the Middle East for building applications ranging from low cost housing to luxury villas. 

The Government of India's BMTPC, under the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, threw down the affordability gauntlet to all Architects, Engineers, Developers and Builders to develop a home for the Urban Poor having a minimum of 25 Sq M and costing no more than a lakh of rupees per home (Excluding Land Cost and External Services), which could be built in a day.

The in-house research based MIDS Team of MetroCorp Engineering and Construction Division took up the challenge and developed an innovative Reinforced Concrete Home that could be built in a day and cost less than a lakh of rupees.

MetroCorp’s entry was selected due to the unprecedented USP of building an RCC home in a day, which has been enabled by MetroCorp acquiring one of the best New Age Concrete Construction technologies in the world, for low cost housing developed and refined in Australia by Ritek Building Solutions. MetroCorp’s entry included a proposal to meet the large housing shortage in the country, within a five-year plan, under the one-day Home construction and delivery plan. 

Mr. Deepak Krishnappa, Chairman of the MetroCorp Group said “This National Award from the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation is an auspicious and momentous achievement for everyone of us, at the METROCORP GROUP. This award will help immensely, in catalysing and motivating the team, towards achieving our focused goal and mission of “Providing affordable housing for the masses” and in line with our company’s maxim, “REDFINING URBAN SPACE”. 

The first Monday in October each year has been designated by the United Nations as the World Habitat Day (WHD).