Tianzhu County, Gansu Province vigorously promotes green prefabricated farm houses with remarkable results

Green prefabricated farm house in Machangtan Village, Qilian Town, Tianzhu County under construction.

Can prefabricated houses be used in rural areas, especially in high-cold areas? Tianzhu County gave the answer. Since 2019, Tianzhu County has raised 136 million yuan of funds to renovate 2,927 rural houses, greatly improving housing conditions for the masses, and laying a solid foundation for the high-quality fight against poverty and the overall poverty alleviation of the county.

In the work of ensuring the safety of rural housing, Tianzhu County earnestly implemented the concept of ecological priority and green development. In 2019, it promoted 29 green prefabricated and thin-walled light steel structure rural houses, accounting for 1.6% of the annual renovation; In 2020, we will establish an incentive mechanism for prefabricated rural houses to make up an extra 5,000 yuan per household, and promote the construction of 734 green prefabricated and thin-walled light-steel structures, accounting for 62.7% of the annual renovation.

According to reports, through pilot promotion, the advantages of green prefabricated buildings in energy saving, environmental protection, safety, and speed have been fully utilized, and the problems of "visual poverty", unreasonable design of rural houses, and difficulty in resolving frost heaves of rural houses in the alpine region of Tianzhu have been effectively solved, further improve the seismic performance of the farm house. At the same time, a batch of livable demonstration farm houses with modern functions, local style, cost-effectiveness, structural safety, and green environmental protection have been built, and a set of prefabricated farm house construction systems such as farm house design, technical services, and craftsman training have been established. Formed experience and practices that can be replicated and promoted, and have been universally recognized by the masses.