5) Description of housing product/service offering: Lightweight Construction Methods will be able to fulfill the housing needs around the globe. We all know that normal concrete is heavy and the No.1 ingredient usage for construction anywhere in the world today, but not many people knows that concrete's density and compressive strength can be control instead of the normal Grade 15, 20, 25 or 30. Cement is concretes main bonding agent and others like sand and aggregates are just fillers. In LCM, it is exactly the same, only we use air as another filler, we can control it's density by amount of tiny air pockets we add into the mix via a very stable foaming process. We can control the density of lightweight concrete, again I want to specify here is that not only you can control the density of LCM concrete but also its compressive strength by cement sand combinations and the usage of dust and flyash. A durable, affordable and wonderfull concrete house is cast via a 123 system, imagine this, houses will not need to have columns, beams and then brickworks this and that and needing all kinds of skill workers like carpenters, barbenders, concreter and many more, what is needed is unskill workers to erect formwork and mix LCM and cast. 123 means cast floor, castwall and cast roof. The foam we are talking of is actually air and air is free ( air is entrap via foaming and mix into cement sand mortar). The Foaming Agent we manufacture is very cheap. www.casthome.com

6) Description of innovation: This innovative technology is been developed for construction of low cost houses and related activity. It is a very versatile controllable lightweight concrete that has excellent thermal and sound insulation properties, it is non-combustible, has good fire rating. It can be produced easily and can cast any you want and can be pump or pour easily. Combining a series innovative and visionary system, we have come out with a systemize way of casting concrete houses which require non skill labour, is better and most of all very much more economical then whatever current methods as well as cutting construction time. Even projects infrastructures will gain tremendously from this system as roads base, conceal drainage system, fencing, backfills and many others can be pre-cast or cast in-situ as well. www.casthome.com

7) Benefits to clients: LCM-APC-Core Spacer System (: LCM uses a Aluminum Plastic Composite formwork system that are strong, reusable up hundreds of times are easy to erect and dismantle. And most of all it is a very cheap and easy to use formwork system design to cast house like casting the ground beams system, imagine casting ground beam, then another ground beam on top of the beam and another till roof beam. This systematic methods will allow hundreds of houses to be in a week with just a handfull of unskill workers. www.casthome.com

8) Key operational partnerships: LCM is offered to any interested parties willing to be LCMer house caster, all a LCM house caster need is only a unit of LCM Foaming Generator, train and technology transfered on all LCM house casting knowhow. The LCM Starter package is inclusive of all rights to utilize LCM methods and we will provide training and supervision till you are expert in LCM multiple applcations other then just house casting.www.casthome.com

9) Financial model: I spend millions on R & D on LCM house casting, for just a few thousand dollars, anyone can cast houses LCM ways. Please see how LCM ways and applications at my website : www.casthome.com

          • Costs as percentage of income: 50

          • Financing: House will be cast not built by bricks and blocks or precast. House cast will be 10 time faster and 2 to 3 times cheaper. I believe this will be the system where all small units of economical and durable house will be cast around the world in the very near future.

10) Effectiveness

          • Project outcomes: I have started to train people to cast in more then 10 countries.

          • Number of clients in past year: More then 10.

          • Percentage of clients that are poor or marginalized: 50

          • Potential demand: I believe with the rigth advertising and rigth people who believe in my system, I can cast millions of units of LCM house before I die. I am now 46 years old.

11) Scaling up strategy

          • Stage of the initiative: Start Up stage.

          • Expansion plan: Get as much people to cast house LCM ways as possible.

12) Origin of the initiative: I am in the construction line for the last 30 years, seeing how the way houses are built makes me sick, a complete waste and unnecessary, the worst is seeing above 80% of people dying by falling bricks and blocks in earthquake. People cast a brick, casting a brick will still require material, labor, factory and logistic and then again labor, better cast a house.

Contact Information:
Liew  Chung Meng
MD
LCM Technology Sdn Bhd
(Concrete Society of Malaysia)
Lot - 78, Jalan Beserah.
Malaysia
Tel: +6095162911 ( Mobile) +60199160861
Fax: +6095162913
Email: alcm8@pd.jaring.my
Website: www.casthome.com