Innovative Building Technologies - Formwork Technology
Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum - Rockefeller Foundation to showcase the South African designed and patented Innovative Building Technologies and formwork construction technology as an innovative solution to address the unprecedented growth of informal settlements globally, creating employment, developing entrepreneurs and housing the homeless applying new innovative financial structures creating sustainable developments
Green Building Council South Africa - moladiThe Green Building Council of South
Africa is dedicated to building a greener future. “Our purpose is to inspire a
built environment in which people and planet thrive. Buildings are one of the
main contributors to climate change. Building green is an opportunity to use
resources efficiently and address climate change while creating healthier and
more productive environments for people and communities.” Appropriate Technology: Small is
beautifulThe economist and philosopher, Dr Ernst
Friedrich Schumacher, wanted to stress that small-scale technologies are the
ones needed in the fight against poverty. These solutions have great
advantages: they can be implemented with local resources and skills and they
are affordable - which makes them tools that empower people to help themselves. The impact of appropriate technology becomes particularly noticeable when innovative
solutions are used and promoted by social entrepreneurs who put social impa…
How to reduce the cost of housing construction?Disruptive Technology - Produce the Model T of Housing The 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. How to reduce the cost of housing constructionThis we refer to as the moladi"injection moulding construction process". Future of Construction - World Economic Forum Molding or Moulding Process:moladiConstruction Process - Video Link 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 o…
