CE6007 HOUSING PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT

YEAR : IV

SEMESTER : VII

DEPARTMENT : CIVIL

UNIT I

2 MARKS

1. Define Housing.
2. Distinguish between housing need and housing demand.
3. Distinguish among House, Home and Household.
4. Enumerate institutions for housing, two each at National and State level.
5. What are the objectives of the National Housing Policy?
6. Distinguish between bye laws and development control regulations.
7. What are the features available in Layout?
8. What are the difference between House and Home?
9. Write the difference between Flat and Plot?
10. Define Apartment.
11. What are the classification of Apartment?
12. What is Multi Storey Building?
13. What is CMDA?
14. What are the Objectives housing policies?
15. What are the Categories of Housing Planning?
16. What is the concept of Planning?
17. What is the aim and objectives of town planning?
18. List out the Special Buildings?
19. Define Recreation Centres?
20. What is Local Planning?
21. What is Country Planning?
22. What is Regional Planning?
23. What is National Planning?
24. What is International Planning?
25. What are the dimensions of rooms in normal residential building?
16-MARKS

1. Explain the Principles of Sustainable Housing? Explain any one principles with
example.
2. Explain the objective and contents of any one housing law in any one state in India.
3. Write detailed note on State level Housing laws.
4. What is the objectives of National Housing Policy? Explain its Strategies.
5. What are the development control regulations for Housing?
6. Briefly explain the Rental housing and Co-operative housing.
 UNIT II

2 MARKS

First Half

1. What is the basic concept of Housing programmes?

2. What is the advantage of co-operative housing?
3. What is the role public sector in housing programme?
4. Why are rental housing required?
5. What are the standards of Housing programmes?
6. What is the concept of open developed plots?
7. How are slums in India defined?
8. Define Gated Communities.
9. Define GIS and MIS in Housing Programme.
10. What are the causes of Slum?
11. What is objective of bye-laws?
12. What are the factors should be consider for the site selection?
13. Describe importance of bye-laws?
Second Half
14. What are the function of local authority?
15. What are the responsibility of owner?
16. Define setback?
17. What is Decentralization?
18. What is Site analysis? why is it important in Housing?
19. Define Floor Space Index.
20. What is HUDCO?
21. What is the role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Slum Housing?
22. State the concept of Rental Housing.
23. What is skyscraper?
24. What is GRUH?
25. Expansion of EWS, LIG, MIG, HIG.
16-MARKS

First Half

1. What are the basic concepts of open development Plots for Housing Programmes?
2. Compare in a tabular statement, basic concepts contexts and Standards for sites and
services projects and Neighbourhood.
3. Explain in details about slum housing Programmes.

Second Half
4. Compare merits and demerits of Public and Private sectors in Planning, Design and
construction of housing projects.
5. What are the standards for Apartments and Rental Housing for Housing Programmes?
6. Explain in details of GIS and MIS in Slum housing project.

UNIT III

2 MARKS

1. What is Two-storey flat?

2. Define demands for houses
3. What are the importance of housing?
4. What is Communal apartment?
5. What is the need of setback in a residential building?
6. What is the minimum requirement of road formation in a layout?
7. State the Objective of Site analysis.
8. State the difference between housing programmes and projects.
9. What are the factors to be considered while analyzing the site?
10. What are the important steps involved in project planning?
11. Differentiate between housing planning and housing design.
12. What are the development standards for housing programmes?
13. Define Public Housing.
14. What are the standards for incremental development of Sites-and-Services?
15. Describe about Tamil Nadu Housing Board.
16. Expand DDP and SMP?
17. Expand TNSCB and explain it?
18. Write a note on Co-operative Housing Societies.
19. List the functions of Tamil Nadu Co-operative Housing Federation.
20. What is Cost Management Principles?
21. What are the estimating requirements for the design of housing programmes?
22. Mention the sections in Project Planning Guide?
23. What are the factors governing the dimension of layout?
24. Define Sanitary lanes.
25. What are the requirements of a layout?

16-MARKS

1. Evolve a methodology for the design of a Housing Layout.

2. Draw a conceptual design of housing units for the following Income group and
indicate dimensions.
i) Economically weaker section
ii) ii) Low Income group
3. Draw a conceptual design of housing units for the following Income group and
indicate dimensions.
i) Middle Income Group
ii) High Income group
4. Explain the formulation of housing projects for Site analysis.
5. Explain the formulation of housing projects for Layout design.
6. Design conceptual housing units for economically weaker section, LIG, MIG and
HIG and indicate the area for each element of each income group.

UNIT IV

2 MARKS

1. What do you mean by cost effective construction materials?

2. What is the concept of Building Centers in India?
3. List any four criteria for appraisal of housing projects
4. Define Recovery pattern in Housing Finance.
5. Describe about BMTC?
6. Define building centers Concept.
7. What are the impact of building center movement?
8. Describe about HUDCO.
9. What are the Urban housing scenario?
10. What are the Rural housing scenario?
11. Explain about IAY?
12. Explain the role of Banks in Housing Finance.
13. What are the rates of interest in Housing Finance?
14. Define Cash flow analysis.
15. What are the performance evaluation of construction techniques?
16. What do you understand by Hybrid Concrete Construction?
17. Define Rat trap bond.
18. List any four merits of new construction techniques in housing.
19. What is the function of building centers?
20. Mention any two advantages of modular bricks.
21. What is the objectives of waste utilization?
22. What are the types of fibers?
23. Define arch corbelling?
24. What do you mean by skyscraper?
25. Define shot Crete.
16-MARKS

1. Illustrate the following construction techniques with neat sketches

i) Under Reamed piles ii) Brick-Cavity Walls
2. Explain the following construction techniques with neat sketches
i) Rat Trap-Bend ii) Precast channel unit
3. Describe the properties of following modern materials and compare their costs and
strengths with conventional materials
i) Flyash ii) Fibre reinforced concrete
 4. Describe the properties of following modern materials and compare their costs and
strengths with conventional materials
i) Bamboo ii) Ferro cement
5. Briefly explain the following with reference to Housing Finance.
i) Housing Finance system in India ii) Pricing of Housing Units.
6. Explain the functions performance evaluation procedures in building centers.
UNIT V

2 MARKS

1. List any four criteria for appraisal of housing projects.

2. Define recovery pattern in Housing Finance.
3. What is the concept of micro financing in the housing sector?
4. What is the necessity of project appraisal?
5. What is Cross Subsidization?
6. What is the relevance of project appraisal in housing finance?
7. State the principle of cross-subsidy in housing.
8. What is cash flow analysis?
9. Distinguish between present value and net present value.
10. What is Cross subsidy in housing?
11. What is the relevance of project appraisal in housing finance?
12. What are the phases requirements for building planning estimates?
13. What are the basic concepts of design and construction phase cost estimating?
14. What are the estimating requirements for design of housing programmes
15. What is cost management principles?
16. Define HDFC.
17. What is DHFL?
18. What are the role of banks in housing finance?
19. Define Cash flow analysis.
20. Define subsidy.
21. What are the criteria for Designing and Evaluating Housing Subsidies?
22. What is meaning of PPP?
23. Define Viability Gap Funding.
24. What is the Recovery pattern of Housing finance?
25. What are the documents required for housing loan?

16-MARKS

1. Briefly explain the following with reference to Housing Finance.

i) Housing Finance system in India
ii) Pricing of Housing Units.
2. Briefly explain the following with reference to Housing Finance
i) Formal and Informal Housing Finance Market
ii) Subsidy and Cross-subsidy.
3. Explain the concept of Cash Flow analyses and bring out its objective in the appraisal of
housing projects.
 4. Explain in detail about pricing of housing rents and recovery pattern problems.
5. Explain in details of Rents and Recovery patterns in Housing finance.
6. Write the common steps involved in the pricing of housing units.