about os house ghana

OS-House Ghana

OS-House Ghana Ltd

Manna Plaza BuildingOpposite Comm. 18 Junction

Spintex Road, AccraTel: 0247979868,0262090475

E-mail: samuel.biitir@os-house.orgWebsite: www.os-house.org

To improve the overall quality of life in urban areas and create a positive ecological footprint by providing affordable, modular and sustainable housing concepts in Ghana and facilitating access to housing credit for both end-users and developers

Vision

Enviu Holding BV – The Netherlands

OS-House International – The Netherlands

Key affiliates

• GNAT – teachers• NAGRAT – graduate teachers• NALAG – Civil Servants (Local government authorities MMDAs)• Civil Servant Associations – MDAs• GRNA – Nurses• Companies (e.g mining)• TEWU• Financial institutions• Developers

Key stakeholders

• Matching financial institutions to long term funding• Project developers to long term funding• user centered design (interior | exterior)

Main solutions to affordable housing

Design competition- contestants3100+ (a.o.Bulgaria, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Germany, Egypt, England, Philippines, Ghana, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Panama, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Vietnam, USA, etc.)Jury: Cameron Sinclair (Architects for Humanity)Prof. Intstiful (Dean KNUST)Barbara Simons (student Ghana)Claudio Acioly (Head Housing,UN-Habitat)Kees Noorman (Director McDonough Architects, C2C)

Milestones

• Land acquired and registered• Construction of winning designs underway• 100 houses target to start in November this year

Building of two winning designs in Cape Coast

• Cape Coast Municipal Assembly• Foundation to Build (Stichting Bouwen) Dutch NGO

providing technical assistance for the pilot• Context International – SROI

Partners

• Com.wonen, • Dura Vermeer, • DOEN, • Dutch Ministry of Spatial Planning,

Investment partners

Knowledge partners

• TU Delft, and • Architecture for Humanity

• Ease access to affordable mortgage• Modern designs that reduces energy use• Build on your own land at your preferred

location• Move into your own house within one year

and stop paying rent

Our preposition to clients