Low cost housing project; lab set up for construction materials testing.

ISLAMABAD -- The Ministry of Housing and Works had set up a laboratory at the site of low-cost housing project of Alipur Frash for the government employees to test the quality of construction material.

'The laboratory will not only help testing the material used in construction work, but also save time of the labourers working on the site, an official in the Ministry of Housing and Works told reporter.

He said the excavation work for over 27 blocks has been carried out and the raft was prepared in three blocks while a steel cage for columns was developed for...