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Iranian Residential Construction Materials Evaluated

Iranian Residential Construction Materials Evaluated
Iranian Residential Construction Materials Evaluated

Steel frames and reinforced concrete were used in the construction of 52% of residential units in urban areas and 22.3% in rural areas in the year ending March 2020, according to a recent report by the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare. 
The average rate of Iranian population living in housing units built with non-durable building materials (wood, clay, mud and straw) was 15.3%. 
Hormozgan Province registered the highest rate of population living in such housing units with 63% and was followed by Sistan-Baluchestan Province with 44%.  
The percentage of population living in durable housing units (with steel, concrete and bricks used as construction materials) was the highest in Alborz, Qom and Tehran. 
 

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