Analysis of Design Quality in Low Cost Housing: Abu Dhabi Buildings

This case study analyzes design quality in low-cost housing, specifically focusing on residential buildings in Musaffah commercial city, Abu Dhabi. The study examines the roles of government specialists, customers, architects, and building construction authorities in the design process. It highlights issues such as the lack of end-user involvement, the importance of using locally made materials, and the need for sustainable design practices. The research explores methodologies for collecting information, including surveys, interviews, and simulations. It also discusses the evolution of building innovations, the significance of sustainability, and the implementation of government policies to ensure adequate and affordable housing. The study compares traditional and sustainable urban planning principles, identifying obstacles to achieving fully sustainable urban structures in social housing neighborhoods. The findings emphasize the importance of considering resident needs and expectations, promoting economic and social benefits, and achieving a balance between design quality and cost-effectiveness.

Design quality in low cost housing: a case study of residential
buildings in Musaffah commercial city, Abu Dhabi
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Planners reacted to the poll brought up that the general venture brief was started by the
administration specialists, which are in charge of the development procedure. This
incorporated the number of floors, stopping zone, a number of shops, open to sky
measurements, and so on. Itemized venture brief which incorporates the quantity of pads, its
substance, and details is started by the customer as a team with the architect and at that point
affirmed by the administration specialists. All end clients asserted that they were not
occupied with the instructions and configuration process.
Quality design in low cost
Design quality
 Enhance life principles of residents by giving them with social protection, stable
salary and security against high financing costs and obligations of business banks;
 Offer answers for lodging issue in Abu Dhabi what's more, accomplish adjust
amongst free market activity (Qamhaieh & Chakravarty, 2017);
 Support foundation activities, for example, streets, water furthermore, power;
 Develop and upgrade the development business and other sparing parts in Abu
Dhabi;
 Contribute in setting up national plan, contracting and support firms and
associations.
Government authorities’ involvement in design quality at low cost
 Government specialists need to draw in customers and end clients in the
instructions and configuration process.
 Along these lines, their prerequisites could be sufficiently caught reflected in
the building plan.
 This will encourage the accomplishment of customers and clients fulfilment
and dispense with advance alterations of offices.

Building construction authorities involvement in design quality at low cost
 Building firms and development organizations ought to be obliged to utilize
privately made materials to maintain a strategic distance from the issue of
keeping up imported materials.
 This will empower the national business and subsequently enhance the
economy and society.
Design quality in building
Regularly, customers and end-clients of low-cost building ventures grumble that their
housing or working environments are not outlined in order to suit their necessities also, live
up to their desires. Questionably, building architects declare that their outlines have
painstakingly considered the customer needs and obliged the majority of the predefined
necessities (Hashim, Samikon, Ismail & Ismail, 2015).
 General feature & overall assumption of this topic
Lamentably, the issue is regularly one of misconception on the two sides. Without a doubt the
creators have complete learning of building plan yet, for the most part, get close to nothing
or, on the other hand, no input after the building is finished.
 Methodology for collecting information regarding this topic
The philosophies in the point of lighting rely upon the genuine subject and the needed
outcomes from it, if we require quantitative outcomes we frequently run re-enactments,
estimations or studies. When it is subjective outcomes we need, for example, individuals'
inclinations, the strategy for interviews are normally utilized. "A journal paper by
ABDELLATIF and Othman” shows the diverse methods for gathering data for a lighting
examination, for example, quality design, customer input, and cost and costumer gear
inclinations when requested.

 Recent or continuous issues in this research domain
Today building innovations are advancing quickly and structures turned out to be more
unpredictable and refined and henceforth their effects on condition, society and economy are
more prominent.
 Dominant lines of thought
New imperatives, for example, productive asset use and low ecological effect require creative
practical arrangements. Manageability has turn into a significant issue in creating building
ventures, yet more crucial on account of low-pay building ventures. Supportability is
accomplished when a building keeps up qualities, for example, its being: conveyed on time,
financially savvy in both short and long runs, amazing, great indoor condition, tough, less
expensive to keep up, and easy to understand.
 Principle theories
In 1996, take after by the Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlement and Habitat Motivation
to guarantee satisfactory safe house for all, the Malaysian government has conferred billions
of Ringgit Malaysia for furnishing every one of its residents with sufficient, moderate and
quality lodging. In 1996, the 'Zero Squatter by 2005' the approach was executed in the entire
Malaysia. Since the finish of 1997, when the nation was influenced by financial subsidence, a
four-level evaluating framework has been actualized keeping in mind the end goal to
guarantee all Malaysians to proceed to appreciate the advantages of satisfactory, reasonable
and quality lodging.
Traditional neighbourhood arranging and plan standards are being supplanted by those
prompting more reasonable urban structures. To follow this testing move, the exploration has
examined the level of thought of feasible urban plan standards in two social lodging
neighbourhoods in Al Ain City in Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE. The main speaks to a traditional
urban shape in light of the area hypothesis; alternate speaks to the new manageable plan.

A definitive point is to characterize the deterrents upsetting the full accomplishment of a
feasible urban frame in this lodging sort. To attempt inquire about examinations, a lattice of
the plan standards of supportable urban structures have been started so as to encourage the
evaluation of the urban structures of the two chose urban groups. Some subjectively
quantifiable plan components have been characterized for each of these standards. The after
effects of the investigation of the move from 'customary' to 'manageable' contextual analyses
have uncovered a few angles that would keep the achievement of completely manageable
urban structures in recently composed social lodging neighbourhoods.
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Hashim, A. E., Samikon, S. A., Ismail, F., & Ismail, Z. (2015). Managing Facilities on
Malaysian Low-cost Public Residential for Sustainable Adaptation. Procedia-Social and
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