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School carried away brick by brick in just two months  R40 million High School - Two months ago  Two months later the school is stripped  WHOLESALE vandalism has seen an entire abandoned Port Elizabeth school simply vanish into thin air – stripped of everything but its concrete floor and support beams in under two months. Using wheelbarrows, cars, vans and even their heads to transport items, Govan Mbeki township residents have reduced the school near Bethelsdorp to a shell to prevent people from other areas taking what they say belongs to them. Gqebera High School, which cost R40-million to build, went from eight buildings to only support beams, with residents carrying off bricks and tiles bit by bit to add to their own homes or sell. And although it is one of six in the city which have been left abandoned, the provincial Education Department says it is only aware of three such vacant schools. The school was closed down earlier this year after pupils were rel...

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Alternative building materials and technologies | Alternative building Technologies Alternative building materials and technologies Create entrepreneurs - Develop skills - Empower people – Produce product Decent housing is one of the key factors in the fight against poverty and social exclusion. It is not just about putting a roof over someone’s head. Academic research proves that access to a clean and stable home implicates an improvement in security, health and education. Moladi , an award winning South African based company, established in 1986, makes housing accessible to low-income people through innovative and eco-friendly technology, creating employment. Moladi alternative construction system The Moladi alternative construction system consists of a reusable and recyclable plastic formwork mould, which is filled with stone-less concrete and a special chemical additive. This additive ensures that, once the mortar is set, the formwork can be removed – an...

Affordable Housing Affordable Housing Affordable Housing Decent affordable housing is one of the key factors in the fight against poverty and social exclusion. It is not just about putting a roof over someone’s head. Academic research proves that access to a clean and stable home implicates an improvement in security, health and education. Moladi , a South African based company established in 1986, makes housing accessible to low-income people through innovative and eco-friendly formwork technology Affordable Housing Construction System Affordable Housing The Moladi construction system consists of a reusable and recyclable plastic formwork mould, which is filled with stone-less concrete and a special cement additive. This additive ensures that, once the mortar is set, the formwork can be removed – and reused up to 50 times. According to the founder Hennie Botes, the brickless walls can withstand all types of weather. The formwork is lightweight allowing easy ...

Suspended concrete slab formwork - moladi Suspended concrete slab formwork - moladi   In-situ floor Suspended slab formwork system moladi  designer of a unique patented plastic formwork system has recently design a new Suspended slab formwork system for casting reinforced Suspended concrete slabs - Floor slabs to enable the construction of multi-level structures to be built faster better stronger for less.  This requires formwork technology to be able to carry the dead loads and impact when casting slabs insitu   The photo below depicts the completed suspended concrete roof slab The 20 square meter slab was constructed with 2 cubic meters of 25 mpa concrete and 100 kg of steel The cost for the slab is drastically reduced because of the formwork configuration that allows for multiple permutations as can be seen below The moladi Slab System allows for beams to be increased or decreased in numbers, thickness, depth and width a...

Adopting alternative building materials, technologies to reduce housing deficit Adopting alternative building materials, technologies to reduce housing deficit Adopting alternative building materials, technologies to reduce housing deficit For Nigeria to bridge the 16 million housing gap, there is need to change from convectional building methods to modern ones that encourage mass housing on a large scale and at cheaper rates alternative building materials, technologies Anywhere in the world where housing needs of the populace has been met, it has been through the use of alternative building technologies for large housing projects. In Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa has been in the forefront of employing new technologies in the development of low income housing. With Nigeria’s housing deficit of over 16 million according to United Nation’s statistics, population growth rate of 2.5 per cent, urbanisation at 3.8 per cent coupled with high rate of environmental degradation ...

Save cost using alternative building methods moladi  - alternative building methods Owning a home is the dream of virtually everybody especially in the big cities of Nigeria where house rent is a big index in household budget. This dream is hardly realized by everybody chiefly because of high poverty level, which makes it difficult for people of low income to be able to build or buy houses. The cost of building is high because materials are over 80 percent imported and also the method of building is costly However, a prospective home-owner can save this cost and even achiev speed in building his house if he or she chooses to use alternative building methods. Moladi is one such method that saves cost and increases speed of building. It is a new technology that is fast and efficient in terms of construction; cost-effective in terms of affordability; simple in terms of operation, and environmentally friendly in terms of adaptability to climatic conditions and changes. Ad...

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