@article{Salas_Oteiza_2008, title={The basic construction materials industry and today’s vast housing shortage}, volume={58}, url={https://materconstrucc.revistas.csic.es/index.php/materconstrucc/article/view/121}, DOI={10.3989/mc.2008.46408}, abstractNote={This paper documents some of the aspects of the major challenge facing world-wide building: humanity’s daunting shortage of basic housing, monographically focusing on what this means for the basic building materials industry. These needs have created the greatest demand ever for ex-novo solutions and an exponential increase in slum rehabilitation and improvement, translated here into the need for construction materials and more specifically, cement, as the emblematic component of buildings.}, number={292}, journal={Materiales de Construcción}, author={Salas, J. and Oteiza, I.}, year={2008}, month={Dec.}, pages={129–148} }