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Hennie Botes - A true South African Entrepreneur

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Hennie Botes is a true South African entrepreneur
In spite of numerous challenges, he has developed an unrelenting ability to sell his vision, and execute it. Through technology he created - which challenges traditional building techniques – he is also empowering other entrepreneurs.




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Vital StatsPlayer:Hennie BotesCompany: Moladi  Established: 1986Visit: moladi.co.zaSouth Africa has a housing backlog of betw
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moladi superior building technology reduces high costs of conventional masonry construction

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moladi superior building technology reduces high costs of conventional masonry construction Africa is a rapidly urbanising continent, which according to the UN Habitat, is increasing at a rate of 230,000 people who are moving into cities across Africa each week. Currently, sub-Saharan Africa alone has an estimated housing deficit of 30 million units and every year, the backlog of houses across Africa’s 54 countries collectively increases by 4 million houses.

With the population of the African continent expected to reach a staggering 2 billion people by 2050, almost twice the population number estimated in 2010, it is a stark reality that every year, there will be more and more people needing homes, over and above the current demand.

Although the extensive and many complex difficulties, relating to the delivery of affordable housing in Africa is well documented, the ever-increasing demand for housing keeps mounting and continues to be a major concern. Projections by the United Nations wou…
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LOW COST HOUSING design concept

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Low cost housing - Design conceptLow cost housing - design conceptmoladiis a global leader innovator and developer of low cost housing as a production system - An assembly line principal.
Read more on low cost housing design concept:
Fourth Industrial Revolution | Housing Construction - Link EmpowerPEOPLE to help themselves - Link How to reduce the cost of housing construction? - Link Project Trinidad - Link Gauteng Education Department - Link Western Cape Education Department - Link
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Low cost affordable housing

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Low cost affordable housing
Low cost affordable housingLow cost affordable housing is produced by speeding up the construction process - This is exactly what moladi plastic formwork construction system is designed to do.
Speed reduces costInstead of using bricks that are produced on a distant brick plant and transported to the construction site, the moladi walls are produced in a plastic lightweight reusable formwork system insitu in a day. This process speeds up the building of the wall, eliminating waste and rework. To construct a moladi wall no skilled artisan or bricklayers are required. This again reduces cost due to eliminating the variance of capacity of individual capability of the bricklayer.
All the water and electrical piping is fixed onto the formwork prior to casting the mortar (Concrete without stone). This eliminates delays and having to chase the wall for the water and electric piping. 
The moladi wall contains steel reinforcing bars to prevent cracking and also to withsta…
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Brick and Mortar vs. Injection Moulded Construction System - moladi

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Brick and Mortar vs. Injection Moulded Construction System - moladiThe inefficiencies of moulding a brick or block in a mould then tasking an artisan to lay them. Then chase the walls for water and electrical services. Then relying on another artisan to plaster the walls. Depending on the skills and ability of artisans to produce a house vs. casting a house in a mould employing unskilled workers – eliminating the need to chase and plaster, in a day, at a known cost. This we refer to as the moladi"injection moulding construction process". Future of Construction - World Economic Forum Molding or Moulding Process:Molding or moulding is the process of manufacturing by shaping liquid or pliable raw material using a rigid frame called a mold or matrix. This itself may have been made using a pattern, a model or formwork of the final object. A mold or mould is a hollowed-out block (cavity) that is filled with a liquid or pliable material such as plastic, glass, metal, ceramic raw mate…
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