Estimation of Construction Costs: From Technological Solutions to the Settlement Scale

The problem of construction cost control together with the availability of land is the most important issue in the realization of affordable housing within the Mogadishu area: high construction costs and lack of land represent a limit to the development of the entire zone. The research carries out an estimation of construction costs, overcoming information inaccuracy, ranging from building to settlement scale. The scarcity of data regarding the construction of housing settlements has represented one of the main hurdles for the research: the bill of quantities (BoQ) methodology was adopted as a tool to appraise the overall costs and propose a cost estimate for the three different housing typologies investigated by BECOMe.