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Abstract
Low income housing is one of the most important housing projects that are directed to serve low-income people in Egypt the greatest challenge that faces Egyptian government is to decrease the cost of low income housing projevcts taking into consideration the available resources and sustainability aspects . This research presents a framework that integrates Building Information Modeling (BIM) with computer simulation and optimization in Low Income Housing (LIH) projects. A computer prototype, name LIH_Sustain, is developed using .net C# windows application language as a proof of concept for the proposed framework. Social housing project in Badr City - Egypt is considered as a case study to demonstrate the use of the developed prototype and to illustrate its essential features