Venezuelan officials, including ministers, governors and mayors, discussed this week the use of steel scrap as a construction material to build homes.
According to the nation’s vice-president of development, Isis Ochoa, Venezuelan state-run companies have some 785,000 mt of “serviceable” scrap, which could be used to build homes in housing programs, in addition to some more 47,000 mt of the product that is produced domestically.
According to Ochoa, the material could be used to build some 300,000 homes in the country’s Gran Mision Vivienda Venezuela (GMVV) housing program.