Petrocasa Turns Hydrocarbons into Social Development
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Aug 4, 2007, 6:46:28 AM8/4/07
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Venezuela’s
petrochemical company (PEQUIVEN) uses the raw material it
produces and
trades in Venezuela and abroad in order to consolidate endogenous
development projects contributing to transform the conditions of many
Venezuelan families.
Petrocasa, flagship project of PEQUIVEN, is a new Social Production Company that has designed a system to build houses similar to other systems in the world and adapted to Venezuela’s conditions regarding quakeproof standards.
This company’s plant is one of the world’s biggest manufacturing PVC (polyvinyl chloride) houses, and Latin America’s largest. It was built in just one year.
The plant will create 540 jobs and produce up to 18,000 houses a year. It is aimed at reducing a deficit of 2 million houses due to the lack of a sustained and efficient policy in previous decades.
Petrocasa’s plant uses as its main raw material PVC (polyvinyl chloride), a non-flammable thermoplastic polymer produced by PEQUIVEN. So far, it was just imported to Canada, Colombia, Brazil and China. From now on, it will not only traded but transformed with the use of German, Brazilian and Dutch technology.
El Tablazo refinery, located Venezuela’s west, produces about 120,000 tons of PVC, and Petrocasa will consume 30,000 tons per year.
PVC is white; nevertheless, its colour can be changed in the production process. In addition, PVC houses can be painted, their walls can be smoothed; bars can be installed in their windows, and other construction materials such as wood, stones and tiles can be used to modify them. Their roof is made with vinyl sidings resembling wood. In conclusion, they are concrete houses covered with vinyl sidings and built with girders, and tiles.
The first model made by Petrocasa is 753 square foot; it features two rooms, one living room, one kitchen and one dining room, with an indoor temperature 50° F or 53° F lower than the outdoor temperature. They can be built almost everywhere: at the beach, on mountains, etc. Their price is US $20,930. So far, these houses have been built in Venezuela’s south-west, north coast, north-east, and east.
National Product Already Available
Petrocasa goes beyond manufacturing PVC walls, roofs, windows and doors; it will help solve a social problem.
Currently, Nuestra Señora de Coromoto, a community located in Guacara, Carabobo state, Venezuela’s north, is transforming its wood and zinc shanties (with no utilities).
In all, 450 families got organized in Community Councils. Thanks to PEQUIVEN help, they are assembling PVC houses. Their experience has proved that organization is essential in order to achieve collective goals. While women assemble vinyl sidings, men pour concrete and install utilities such as water and electricity.
Likewise, they built 10 houses in 12 days and they are determined to build 10 houses in one week. Conventional house-building processes are finished in a certain time to complete each building phase. In this case, construction is much faster due to the characteristics of the material.
The President of the Nuestra Señora de Coromoto Community Council, Beltrán Chávez, says they have been visited by communities of Yaracuy state, Venezuela’s west, and other regions, which were sceptic regarding the safety of PVC houses. They were surprised by witnessing the safety and quality of such houses.
Building a house is not enough; they need to develop productive projects generating jobs and allowing the families to improve their standard of living. That’s the reason why Nuestra Señora de Coromoto Community Council is working on plans to build a textile centre for women. The solution has to be an integrated one; otherwise, they would be solving just one problem.
PVC houses will be built in other places of Carabobo state. In addition, the Ministry of Popular Power for Housing endorsed an agreement with Petrocasa in order to build 2,300 houses with an investment of US $80,6 million.
Petrocasa will manufacture the houses and the Venezuelan housing office will be in charge of finding places to build them.
Petrocasa, flagship project of PEQUIVEN, is a new Social Production Company that has designed a system to build houses similar to other systems in the world and adapted to Venezuela’s conditions regarding quakeproof standards.
This company’s plant is one of the world’s biggest manufacturing PVC (polyvinyl chloride) houses, and Latin America’s largest. It was built in just one year.
The plant will create 540 jobs and produce up to 18,000 houses a year. It is aimed at reducing a deficit of 2 million houses due to the lack of a sustained and efficient policy in previous decades.
Petrocasa’s plant uses as its main raw material PVC (polyvinyl chloride), a non-flammable thermoplastic polymer produced by PEQUIVEN. So far, it was just imported to Canada, Colombia, Brazil and China. From now on, it will not only traded but transformed with the use of German, Brazilian and Dutch technology.
El Tablazo refinery, located Venezuela’s west, produces about 120,000 tons of PVC, and Petrocasa will consume 30,000 tons per year.
PVC is white; nevertheless, its colour can be changed in the production process. In addition, PVC houses can be painted, their walls can be smoothed; bars can be installed in their windows, and other construction materials such as wood, stones and tiles can be used to modify them. Their roof is made with vinyl sidings resembling wood. In conclusion, they are concrete houses covered with vinyl sidings and built with girders, and tiles.
The first model made by Petrocasa is 753 square foot; it features two rooms, one living room, one kitchen and one dining room, with an indoor temperature 50° F or 53° F lower than the outdoor temperature. They can be built almost everywhere: at the beach, on mountains, etc. Their price is US $20,930. So far, these houses have been built in Venezuela’s south-west, north coast, north-east, and east.
National Product Already Available
Petrocasa goes beyond manufacturing PVC walls, roofs, windows and doors; it will help solve a social problem.
Currently, Nuestra Señora de Coromoto, a community located in Guacara, Carabobo state, Venezuela’s north, is transforming its wood and zinc shanties (with no utilities).
In all, 450 families got organized in Community Councils. Thanks to PEQUIVEN help, they are assembling PVC houses. Their experience has proved that organization is essential in order to achieve collective goals. While women assemble vinyl sidings, men pour concrete and install utilities such as water and electricity.
Likewise, they built 10 houses in 12 days and they are determined to build 10 houses in one week. Conventional house-building processes are finished in a certain time to complete each building phase. In this case, construction is much faster due to the characteristics of the material.
The President of the Nuestra Señora de Coromoto Community Council, Beltrán Chávez, says they have been visited by communities of Yaracuy state, Venezuela’s west, and other regions, which were sceptic regarding the safety of PVC houses. They were surprised by witnessing the safety and quality of such houses.
Building a house is not enough; they need to develop productive projects generating jobs and allowing the families to improve their standard of living. That’s the reason why Nuestra Señora de Coromoto Community Council is working on plans to build a textile centre for women. The solution has to be an integrated one; otherwise, they would be solving just one problem.
PVC houses will be built in other places of Carabobo state. In addition, the Ministry of Popular Power for Housing endorsed an agreement with Petrocasa in order to build 2,300 houses with an investment of US $80,6 million.
Petrocasa will manufacture the houses and the Venezuelan housing office will be in charge of finding places to build them.
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