America Low-Cost Houses Soon in Cameroon!

A pilot project to this effect will soon start along the Mfoundi river bed in Yaounde.

The government of Cameroon has again taken a bold step to provide quality low-cost houses to its citizens at affordable prices. This time around, an American technology is on the way.

The government, through the Ministry of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development, is taking necessary measures to begin a pilot project for the construction of four sample houses along the Mfoundi river bed using a fast American housing technology; Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs). It is said that once the technology is adapted and appreciated by Cameroonians, SIPs production factory will be implanted in the country.

The Director General of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development at the Ministry of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Janvier Oum Eloma says government embarked on the SIPs technology in 2011 after several missions were undertaken to the United States by personnel from the Ministries of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Urban Development and Housing, the Cameroon Real Estate Corporation (SIC) and the Local Material Promotion Authority (Mipromalo), during which the building technology was analysed and appreciated.