Sedatu, Infonavit, Conavi, Civil Protection and Conapred carried out the presentation of the "Safe Housing Self-Construction Guide", which aims to provide criteria, procedures and recommendations for households, from the selection of the site during the process of building up to the safest ways of raising walls and pouring floors and ceiling slabs to reduce possible patrimonial losses and thus safeguard the life of the population.

“The construction guide will be a useful tool to prevent risks to the population, especially the most vulnerable who have the opportunity in self-construction to exercise their right to housing. Mexican families will build their homes dignified and safe in a learning process between heads of families and master masons hand in hand with the Government of Mexico ”, commented Laura Velázquez, national coordinator of Civil Protection.

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General aspects will be incorporated in this guide, starting with administrative and construction requirements and recommendations; the preparation of the land, the foundations, the walls with reinforcement, the concrete slabs that can be reinforced, to name a few.

Likewise, one of the first recommendations made in this document is "to have a building license or permit, that is, to inform the authority that you think or want to build on a certain site," said Enrique Guevara, CEO of the National Center for Disaster Prevention (Cenapred).

The manual includes some examples and architectural proposals that allow integrating functional habitability, ease of construction and above all safety. "It is a guide for a one or two-level housing, we believe that it helps a significant percentage of homes that build themselves nationwide," reported Román Meyer Falcón, secretary of SEDATU.

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Also in the document there are graphic recommendations on issues of relevance, structural safety, as well as advice that comes directly from the regulations and building regulations.

According to Enrique Guevara, the written material is easy to read, so the people who intervened did not use very technical terms to make it understandable, "most people without having knowledge of structural engineering will understand you."

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