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CONTENTS<br />
2 EDITOR’S COMMENT<br />
4 SAISC<br />
6 Finance<br />
8 cover story<br />
12 Bricks & Paving<br />
16 Women in construction<br />
20 Bricks & Paving<br />
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ed’s note<br />
Saluting the fairer sex<br />
August is Women’s month and so in this issue we turn our<br />
attention to women in construction.<br />
The emergence of expanded and diversified roles for<br />
women in this industry is an increasingly important<br />
indicator of economic development in our country<br />
and the world.<br />
Nowadays, there are many more professional women<br />
making their mark as engineers, architects, quantity<br />
surveyors and project managers and it is heartening to see<br />
more and more women demonstrating tenacity, hard work<br />
and prowess to beat the odds and success in a traditionally<br />
male-dominated world of construction.<br />
At this time, one particular woman in the industry stands<br />
out for us. This is Elizabeth O’Leary, Executive Director of<br />
Khuthaza, a not-for-profit company that offers services<br />
and programmes, mostly for those women involved in the<br />
construction and housing industries, with the aim of career<br />
and enterprise development.<br />
We share with our readers just one of Khuthaza’s many<br />
success stories – that of Nomasonto Tshehla, who was<br />
selected for the Tiber Bonvec Construction bursary<br />
programme. Needless to say, Tshehla is now a Green Star<br />
Accredited Professional and a great asset to the South<br />
African construction industry. Read more about her story<br />
on page 16.<br />
The empowerment of women stimulates socio-economic<br />
development, something that is particularly relevant in<br />
Africa, where developing countries could augment this<br />
development through improved education, employment<br />
and earnings for women.<br />
We salute women in construction and applaud their drive<br />
to occupy their own space in a traditionally maledominated<br />
industry.<br />
However, it is our hope that in years to come, we will not<br />
require a month, or a day to observe the woman’s role in<br />
any sphere, economic, political, or social, or to lament the<br />
obvious absence of women in so many important sectors<br />
and roles. Rather, we hope that women will be, to all of us,<br />
integral, highly important contributors to a more fair,<br />
equal and accepting workforce, and acknowledged, for<br />
their contributions, on all fronts, to a developing South<br />
Africa.<br />
Jen<br />
Please forward your comments, suggestions and questions<br />
to editor@trademax.co.za.<br />
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SAISC<br />
Light steel frame project<br />
enters Steel Awards 2013<br />
St Helena Airport workforce housing village uses light steel frame building<br />
St Helena, in the south Atlantic Ocean, is one of the most isolated islands in the<br />
world, and its new international airport project represents a historic milestone for<br />
the island, as well as for South African construction company, Basil Read, which was<br />
awarded the contract to design, build, operate and then transfer the airport, which is<br />
estimated to be operational by 2016.<br />
Basil Read appointed George-based SA Steelframe<br />
Systems to construct a village on the island for a<br />
workforce of 200 to 300 people, who will build the<br />
airport. The village includes accommodation, ablution and<br />
recreational units, laundries, a gymnasium, security offices, as<br />
well as kitchen and dining room units.<br />
SA Steelframe Systems explained that light steel frame<br />
construction offered the best solution for creating this village<br />
on the remote, environmentally sensitive island. “When you<br />
consider the combination of reduced time of construction, the<br />
lower logistical costs of the modular system and the relative<br />
ease of assembly, and, of course, the substantially smaller<br />
carbon footprint when compared to more traditional building<br />
methods, it made a lot of sense,” said Johan Marais, Owner of SA<br />
Steelframe Systems.<br />
The isolated nature of the island presented the team with its<br />
own challenges. Since very little building material is available<br />
on the island, all materials had to be shipped via 20 foot<br />
containers from either Cape Town or Walvis Bay harbours.<br />
All the building materials – with the exception of the Rockcote<br />
render and paint system – were sourced in South Africa and<br />
delivered to Cape Town or Walvis Bay harbours, and from there<br />
shipped to St Helena, which drew praise from SAISC’s Erling.<br />
“An aspect of this year’s theme is ‘proudly South African’ and<br />
the St Helena airport project shows the power of local ingenuity<br />
on a truly international stage,” he said. He added that the work<br />
on this groundbreaking project is evidence of the ongoing<br />
quality and innovation in local structural steel design and<br />
construction.<br />
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SAISC<br />
The Steel Awards 2013 will be held simultaneously in<br />
Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban on 19th September<br />
2013. The main sponsors of the awards are Aveng Trident Steel.<br />
Other sponsors are: Macsteel (Table Décor); Cadex SA (Photo<br />
Competition); The Association of Steel Tube and Pipe<br />
Manufacturers of South Africa (Tubular Award); Stewarts &<br />
Lloyds (Light Steel Frame Award) and partner sponsors:<br />
ArcelorMittal SA; B&T Steel; Eazi Sales & Service; Genrec<br />
Engineering; NJR Steel; Peddinghaus; Tubular Holdings; Vital<br />
Engineering.<br />
Project team:<br />
As the team’s submission explained, the scope had an<br />
innovative developmental element in the sense that the<br />
accommodation units had to be converted into two- and threebedroomed<br />
houses after completion of the airport project. This<br />
‘house conversion’ will be made possible with minimal internal<br />
changes and the adjustment of a few windows and doors. These<br />
houses will then be sold to local residents.<br />
Developer/Owner: Basil Read<br />
Architect: Munnik Visser<br />
Structural Engineer: DMS Structures<br />
Project Manager: SA Steelframe Systems<br />
Main Contractor: Basil Read<br />
Steelwork Contractor: SA Steelframe Systems<br />
Detailers/Detailing Company: SA Steelframe Systems<br />
The local authorities have been so impressed by the workers'<br />
village, that they have approached SA Steelframe Systems to<br />
supply costing of the construction of a child-care centre, an<br />
extension to a hospital and other housing needs on the island.<br />
“The cost savings and speed of erection, coupled with the drive<br />
to create ‘thermally efficient’ and ‘environmentally friendly’<br />
buildings, have alerted the islanders to the availability of<br />
alternative building technologies like light steel frame<br />
building,” the submission explained.<br />
For more information on the SAISC<br />
Steel Awards 2013 please go to<br />
www.saisc.co.za.<br />
august 2013 5
Finance<br />
A roof overhead - building a<br />
secure future for Africa<br />
Innovation and collaboration are needed to provide more cheap, sustainable<br />
housing and stop the crippling backlog in Africa from getting worse.<br />
Runaway housing prices and unsophisticated<br />
mortgage systems are hampering efforts across<br />
Africa to house its people: a situation that experts<br />
say is preventing many countries from reaping the social<br />
and economic benefits that housing security provides.<br />
Going beyond a roof overhead, housing creates<br />
employment during the development phases, and<br />
improves quality of life, social standing, health, financial<br />
position, security, social cohesion and access to education.<br />
The ABSA housing index shows that in South Africa the<br />
average price of small houses has risen from R660 953 in<br />
the first quarter of 2011 to R777 343 in the fourth quarter<br />
of 2012. In the affordable segment, the price rose from<br />
R292 790 in 2009 to R345 388 in 2012. In both cases,<br />
there has been a 17% increase. In Kenya, prices increased<br />
by roughly 76% between 2008 and 2012.<br />
According to Allan Kundu at the University of<br />
Witwatersrand, such numbers are common across the<br />
continent. He says that the concern is two-fold: the fact<br />
that housing is central to economies as capital assets<br />
contributing to “production, savings, consumption,<br />
household income, employment, growth of other markets,<br />
social welfare, diversification and investment, and<br />
meeting a basic need” and that “the high prices are likely<br />
to condemn many people to perpetual squalid living<br />
conditions because of the lack of affordability for the<br />
majority of citizens.”<br />
In trying to address this concern, economies are working to<br />
provide housing, but in Africa a massive backlog exists,<br />
which Marja Hoek-Smit, director of the Housing Finance<br />
programme for Sub-Saharan Africa at the UCT Graduate<br />
School of Business and researcher in urban mass-housing<br />
at St. Catherine College, Oxford, says has to be prevented<br />
from growing.<br />
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Finance<br />
“The first step must be to prevent further backlogs and the<br />
spread of informal and squatter areas,” she says. “This is<br />
far from where we are now. We have to think of measures<br />
we have to instate to get massive housing going for at<br />
least 70% of the population.”<br />
To do this, Hoek-Smit says innovative housing products<br />
that take the local social, economic and institutional<br />
contexts into account and that are also sound from a<br />
business funding, operational and risk management<br />
perspective must be developed.<br />
“The focus is on getting the private and public sectors to<br />
create as much new housing as possible to house new<br />
household formation,” she says. “And this cannot be done<br />
by only building in the upper, upper-middle income levels<br />
in the hopes that housing will filter down to low income<br />
levels.”<br />
For this to happen, Hoek-Smit says, there is a need for<br />
finance at many different levels. Her main focus in her<br />
work at St. Catherine’s College is to understand the work<br />
and need of equity investors and how they may be enticed<br />
to come into investing in African housing; to look at those<br />
institutions that provide construction debt loans to<br />
developers and what they require to go to scale and<br />
minimise risk; to consider rental housing – an area nonexistent<br />
in Africa presently, looking at who is going to<br />
provide rental investors with rental debt, longer term<br />
debt, and not just construction debt; and then<br />
understanding how mortgage lending can be expanded<br />
rapidly to ensure that developers have the clients that<br />
have the mortgage to buy the developed stock.<br />
According to Kecia Rust, coordinator of FinMark Trust’s<br />
Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa, the<br />
mortgage market in Africa is tiny but that means there is a<br />
lot of space for growth. The African <strong>Development</strong> Bank<br />
also estimates that 20% of the African population earns<br />
more than $20 a day, which is promising if mortgage<br />
systems become sufficiently sophisticated to make it more<br />
affordable for Africans to own their own home.<br />
Rust says that one very interesting option emerging in<br />
Africa is housing microfinance.<br />
“We work closely with micro-lenders to see how we can<br />
expand their scope so that we can have finance for low<br />
income folk,” she says. “There is a need for noncollateralised<br />
loans from a variety of schemes to give<br />
people that do not have the steady income, employment<br />
security, and tenure security needed to secure a loan in<br />
the mortgage market to access finance for incremental<br />
building and home-improvement.”<br />
She says that micro-lenders are increasingly coming to<br />
market, but there needs to be regulatory support to take<br />
their investments to scale.<br />
“The really important thing here is that we need cheaper<br />
houses, and we need government, lenders and developers<br />
to start having the necessary conversations across the<br />
continent to find a way to build cheaper houses in a<br />
sustainable way.”<br />
Rust says that there is a major need for people in private<br />
housing finance institutions, government finance and<br />
housing agencies, academic and international<br />
development institutions from both emerging markets and<br />
established economies to understand all the key issues<br />
and concepts in housing finance with respect to different<br />
contexts, the design of different housing products<br />
available and the business models needed to provide such<br />
products effectively and sustainably.<br />
“We need to help people in this sector understand the full<br />
implications of the innovation taking place in housing<br />
finance, and provide them with the insight needed to<br />
ensure that creative and sustainable solutions are<br />
implemented perfectly in the Sub-Saharan African<br />
context,” says Hoek-Smit. “If the system is to be<br />
sophisticated enough to eradicate housing problems, then<br />
everyone involved, from lenders to developers and even<br />
sales, need to be on the same page.”<br />
Affordable housing is more than just providing a basic<br />
need to the poor, it is about creating a sustainable society<br />
that nurtures the growth and development of its people,<br />
where the quality of life and access to those things that<br />
improve lives is improved, where the population, rather<br />
than getting by, actually flourishes.<br />
august 2013 7
Bricks & Paving<br />
Fast-tracked school in Daveyton<br />
proves worth of facebrick<br />
Almost in the centre of Daveyton, a new school has been constructed in<br />
record time, proving that clay facebrick is economical as built and still has<br />
a large role to play in the construction of government-funded buildings.<br />
The Chief Albert Luthuli Primary School, overseen by<br />
Peter Manana, the capable and passionate principal,<br />
will provide an education and a solid grounding to<br />
1 587 students a year, from Grade R to Grade 7. Daveyton<br />
is one of the largest townships in South Africa with a<br />
population of over 130 000 in its 14km² radius.<br />
Named after the famed teacher and politician,<br />
construction on the Chief Albert Luthuli Primary School<br />
began on November 14, 2012, and was completed less<br />
than five months later on April 12, 2013. “This is the<br />
quickest school that I have ever seen going up,” states<br />
Manana, saying that, “Typically a school of this size will<br />
take two years to complete.”<br />
The Department of Education designs prototype schools<br />
and architects help with the working drawings and the<br />
specification of materials. Designed by Selby Shiba<br />
Architects, the school makes extensive use of facebrick,<br />
which was specified by the Gauteng Department of<br />
Education. Contractor, Joe Manonga from Clear Choice<br />
Construction was awarded the contract for the project, and<br />
the fact that he was constantly on site supervising the<br />
project has been cited as the main reason for the quick,<br />
though meticulous construction. The contractor was so<br />
involved in the build that he even purchased furniture and<br />
mowers to cut the grass of the playing fields as part of his<br />
turnkey service. As a result of the success of the<br />
completed project, Clear Choice has been awarded a<br />
further contract to build a school in Hammanskraal.<br />
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Bricks & Paving<br />
Corobrik Village Antique Travertine bricks have been used to<br />
one metre high to protect the walls from scuffing. The warm<br />
tones of the brickwork are offset by brightly painted<br />
classrooms to encourage learning in a pleasant environment.<br />
Four other schools following the same plan and style are<br />
being constructed in Palm Ridge, Slovoville, Midrand and<br />
Randburg. All were started last year, but the Daveyton<br />
school is the first one to be completed.<br />
For all the publicity afforded to newer lightweight building<br />
techniques, this project has proved that facebrick can<br />
more than hold its own in the face of the competition.<br />
Moreover, the longevity of facebrick and its minimal<br />
maintenance needs were what convinced the Gauteng<br />
Department of Education to go with the material. Half a<br />
million of Corobrik’s Village Antique Travertine facebricks<br />
were used along with over 200 000 clay pavers. The<br />
school is built from facebrick to the top of window height<br />
on the exterior and to 1.2m inside.<br />
Dharmesh Desai from Bricks for Africa, who supplied the<br />
bricks as a distributor of Corobrik products, has a good<br />
relationship with both the company and the building<br />
contractor, and as a result he was instrumental in<br />
specifying Corobrik Cedarberg, Tuscan and Burgundy<br />
pavers.<br />
Clay facebrick is in many ways synonymous with<br />
institutions of learning, and one cannot escape the<br />
integrity that brick brings to school construction, be it<br />
inside or outside. Large paved courtyards give the pupils a<br />
safe and secure place to enjoy their breaks, where single<br />
bullnosed bricks are used to create areas for the children<br />
to sit in comfort.<br />
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Bricks & Paving<br />
The Chief Albert Luthuli Primary School in Daveyton, Gauteng, has been constructed from Corobrik’s Village Antique Travertine<br />
facebricks. The paved parking area has made use of Corobrik Cedarberg pavers.<br />
A notable aspect of the school is that the Grade R facility is<br />
separate, providing newcomers to schooling life a<br />
protected environment in which to develop. “This wasn’t<br />
the case previously in many other schools, and it led to<br />
bullying of the younger children,” notes Manana. Apart<br />
from the large Grade R subdivision, the single-storey<br />
school has been divided into class areas, each with their<br />
own walled-in play area, and includes 27 brightly coloured<br />
and inviting classrooms, three courtyards, an admin<br />
building, which houses the principal and vice principal’s<br />
office, a library, computer centre, sick bays, two<br />
storerooms, an HOD office and a reception area, as well as<br />
a multi-use sports field, which is watered by a borehole on<br />
the premises.<br />
Covered walkways join the classroom wings with the main<br />
building, and throughout the school, top-quality finishes<br />
have been used, such as granite tops in the bathrooms,<br />
solar geysers to allow learners to enjoy hot showers after<br />
playing sport and automatic taps that turn themselves off<br />
to save water. The school’s tuck shop has its own kitchen,<br />
ensuring that the learners have the benefit of a feeding<br />
scheme so that they each receive a nutritious meal at<br />
school.<br />
“We wanted something for the teachers, the pupils and<br />
their parents to be proud of,” says Manana. “With the<br />
facilities now in place, we can ensure that effective<br />
teaching will take place.<br />
Through education we are empowering the community<br />
with knowledge and skills, keeping the children off the<br />
streets and away from the lure of drugs and crime. At Chief<br />
Albert Luthuli Primary School we want to give the pupils<br />
the kind of education that will allow them to overcome<br />
their future challenges without hindrances,” he states.<br />
The school has been constructed in a relatively new area<br />
of Daveyton where previously no schools were available<br />
to cater for the community’s educational needs. In fact,<br />
950 of the learners were accommodated in portable<br />
classrooms at the nearby secondary school prior to taking<br />
occupation of the new facility. By involving the residents<br />
in this growing community, and giving them a sense of<br />
ownership of the school, this highly successful project<br />
could be a catalyst for positive growth in the area, and the<br />
humble facebrick is at the heart of it all.<br />
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Women in construction
Women in construction<br />
Realising the potential of women<br />
in the construction industry<br />
The potential impact of women’s development on the global economy<br />
is becoming clear. Research by companies such as Goldman Sachs,<br />
Booz and Company and Catalyst point to both current impact and the<br />
significant potential of women’s increasing impact on the economy.<br />
Research by Catalyst shows that companies with more<br />
women board directors outperform companies with<br />
the smallest number by 66 per cent in return on<br />
invested capital, 53 per cent in return on equity, and 42<br />
per cent in return on sales. La Pietra Coalition, which<br />
includes companies such as Ernst & Young, Coca Cola,<br />
Accenture and Harvard University, identifies women as the<br />
emerging market with the greatest potential for growth<br />
over the next decade.<br />
It is also generally acknowledged that investment in<br />
women has positive, long-term, socio-economic ripple<br />
effects, as women tend to invest their income in the health<br />
and education of their families, enabling their children to<br />
start off on a stronger footing and higher socio-economic<br />
level.<br />
Non-profit company, Khuthaza sees incredible potential<br />
for women in the construction industry and facilitates<br />
career and enterprise development for women, as well as<br />
capacity-building in the industry.<br />
POSSIBILITIES THAT CONNECT A CITY<br />
AT AFRISAM WE DON’T JUST BUILD BRIDGES, WE DEVELOP SOLUTIONS THAT CREATE POSSIBILITIES.<br />
Take our involvement in the Nelson Mandela Bridge in Newtown where we pumped our Flowcrete into<br />
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With the planet as one of our core values, we measure the carbon footprint of each and every one<br />
of our operations and products while actively striving to drive down our impact on the environment.
Women in construction<br />
In late 2010, Khuthaza assisted Tiber Bonvec Construction<br />
to identify young women for their bursary programme,<br />
one of whom was Nomasonto Tshehla. At the time, she was<br />
finishing her BSc in Construction Management at Wits<br />
University. Subsequently employed by Tiber as a Junior<br />
Engineer, Nomasonto soon began to make her mark and<br />
her potential was brought to the attention of Tiber’s MD,<br />
Fernando Cardoso. She was offered the exciting<br />
opportunity to specialise in Green Building and assist the<br />
company to gain expertise in the field. It was a significant<br />
responsibility, as she had to gain the knowledge, develop<br />
the systems and set up the department within Tiber.<br />
The company invested in her training through the Green<br />
Building Council of South Africa and she was also<br />
fortunate to find an excellent mentor. Tiber was involved<br />
in a Joint Venture with WBHO and a Green Star Accredited<br />
Professional from WBHO, Gideon Van den Berg, took her<br />
under his wing and “taught her everything.” But it is all<br />
credit to Nomasonto that she seized these opportunities<br />
and made the most of them. Always keen to learn, her<br />
confidence, a go-getter attitude, and strong emotional<br />
intelligence have enabled her to navigate this maledominated<br />
industry.<br />
At the age of 26, Nomasonto is now a Green Star<br />
Accredited Professional and proud of what both she and<br />
Tiber are delivering. Although young, she is already<br />
looking to give back and share her experiences with<br />
younger women entering the industry. Nomasonto<br />
attributes much of her successful progress to the solid<br />
backing from the company and to learning the importance<br />
of ‘people skills’ on a construction site.<br />
“We’re very proud of Nomasonto,” says Tiber’s Cardoso.<br />
“By supporting her education and providing opportunities<br />
to develop her career, we recognise that she adds<br />
significant value to our company and the capacity of the<br />
industry as a whole.”<br />
Nomasonto enjoys being hands-on and having the<br />
exposure to various construction sites. Through Tiber<br />
Bonvec’s excellent standing in the industry, Nomasonto<br />
has had the opportunity to work on various Green Star<br />
rated projects such as, Sandton’s 115 West Street and 15<br />
Alice Lane, Superpark (Isando) where they are focusing on<br />
waste management, and working with Aurecon, who were<br />
the Sustainability Consultants on 8 Melville Road (Illovo).<br />
Her ambition is to play a more senior role in Project<br />
Management with responsibility for all aspects of a<br />
project.<br />
“We are proud to be associated with Tiber: they are a great<br />
company to work with and we are so pleased that they are<br />
supporting the development of women in the industry,”<br />
comments Elizabeth O’Leary, Executive Director of<br />
Khuthaza. “Nomasonto is already an excellent role-model<br />
and demonstrates the character and potential of so many<br />
women looking to develop careers in the construction<br />
industry.”<br />
As South Africa looks for opportunities for both economic<br />
growth and socio-economic transformation, investing in<br />
women and harnessing their potential is an excellent<br />
investment in the future.<br />
About Khuthaza<br />
Khuthaza facilitates Career and Enterprise <strong>Development</strong>,<br />
primarily for women, in the housing and construction<br />
industries.<br />
We are a non-profit company with over 10 years of<br />
experience in this market. Khuthaza offers a range of<br />
programmes and services that support both the emerging<br />
and established sectors, with the same goals in mind –<br />
transformation, women’s development and capacity<br />
building within the industry.<br />
Khuthaza has a solid reputation in terms of our ability to<br />
delivery, our culture, the quality of our programmes and<br />
our relationships in the industry.<br />
Please visit www.khuthaza.org.za for further information.<br />
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ADDING VALUE<br />
THROUGH THE<br />
CREATION OF SPACE<br />
Caliber is a Property <strong>Development</strong> Group which was founded in January 2003.<br />
Its main goal is the definitive development of property in the residential and commercial real estate markets.<br />
The expertise of its directors facilitate speedy and cost effective delivery of turnkey construction projects in a<br />
highly competitive market-place.<br />
The strength of the group lies in the extent to which it can provide its client with Value Added Services – from the<br />
conceptualisation phase right up to the delivery of the final product.<br />
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:<br />
T: 012 809 2044 | F: 086 513 5093 | E: info@caliber.co.za | W: www.caliber.co.za
Bricks & Paving<br />
CBP used in Shovagakula<br />
paving project<br />
Precast concrete block pavers (CBP) and kerbing have been used to<br />
construct safe, attractive and durable pavements in Olievenhoutbosch Ext<br />
36 for both pedestrians and cyclists.<br />
Known as the City of Tshwane’s<br />
Shovagakula (Easy) Paving Project, it is<br />
being run over three years in several<br />
phases and aims to encourage the use of<br />
bicycles in the place of cars for travel within<br />
Olievenhoutbosch.<br />
Phase 1, which commenced in April and<br />
completed by the middle of June, involved the<br />
construction of pavements 2.2m wide and<br />
1 600m long using 50mm bevelled pavers, as<br />
well as Figure 10 and 12 concrete kerbing<br />
supplied by Concrete Manufacturers<br />
Association (CMA) member, MVA Bricks.<br />
Construction involved compacting in-situ<br />
material to 90-93%, adding and compacting a<br />
150mm layer of G5 mixed with four percent of<br />
cement, and topping that with 20mm of river<br />
sand. Once the pavers were laid, they were<br />
covered with plaster sand to fill the joints<br />
between the pavers. The surface was then<br />
swept and compacted to form a very attractive<br />
and hard-wearing surface.<br />
The terracotta coloured pavements were edged<br />
with a header course of charcoal pavers, which<br />
were also used for decoration strips at every<br />
five metres.<br />
The main contractor on Phase 1 was MK Brick<br />
and Earthworks, owned and run by Nathaniel<br />
Kgobe.<br />
Newly laid pavers at The City of Tshwane’s Shovagakula (Easy) Paving Project in<br />
Olievenhoutbosch Ext 36.<br />
MVA Brick’s Figure 12 kerbing is installed prior to the construction of CBP<br />
pavements.<br />
Kgobe says that 35 people were deployed for<br />
the execution of Phase 1, 28 of whom were<br />
unskilled members of the local community.<br />
“We trained them in all aspects of CBP surfacing<br />
including the preparation of the sub-base, the<br />
actual laying of pavers and the installation of<br />
kerbing, and they have acquired skills which<br />
they can use on other projects of this nature,”<br />
said Kgobe.<br />
A header course of charcoal pavers being laid in Olievenhoutbosch Ext 36.<br />
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Steel<br />
Steel lintels<br />
Innovative, high strength and lightweight<br />
Steelform SA, supplier of construction products to the<br />
domestic, residential and construction markets, has recently<br />
launched an innovative addition to its range: the steel lintel.<br />
Steel lintels offer a combination of high strength and<br />
light weight, resulting in efficient load-bearing<br />
performance and increased productivity on site. The<br />
company is currently manufacturing two types of steel<br />
lintel, designed for 110mm and 220mm wall thicknesses,<br />
and plans to launch more types in the near future.<br />
The 220mm wall thickness lintels weigh a mere<br />
2.48 kg/m², while the 110mm wall thickness lintel weighs<br />
1.97 kg/ m². Their light weight makes them very easy to<br />
handle, saves money on transport costs, and reduces<br />
labour installation costs as well.<br />
Imagine a 6m lintel carried and lifted into position by one<br />
person. The products have been structurally analysed and<br />
the structural integrity verified by independent structural<br />
engineers. The lintels are manufactured to ISO 9002 and<br />
have been accepted by the National Home Builders<br />
Registration Council (NHBRC). The products should be<br />
used in accordance with good building practice and the<br />
National Building Regulations.<br />
A distinct advantage of the steel lintels is that they extend<br />
creativity and freedom in building design through use of<br />
curves and clean finishes. Steelform’s production capacity<br />
of the steel lintels is in excess of 300 000 linear metres of<br />
each lintel per month.<br />
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Steel<br />
NEW LIGHT WEIGHT<br />
STEEL LINTELS<br />
Takes place of 2<br />
concrete lintels<br />
U-6 Lintel<br />
Advantages of steel lintels:<br />
• Lightweight<br />
• Easy to transport<br />
• Easy to handle on site<br />
• Accurate shapes<br />
• No delays in bricklaying<br />
• No cracks<br />
• No warps<br />
• No site or yard wastage<br />
Other products manufactured by Steelform in addition to the newly<br />
launched steel lintels are permanent steel shuttering made to<br />
specification, as well as stair cages, arches, bays, roses, corners,<br />
bulkheads, hangers and custom-made goods.<br />
Steelform distributes via a nationwide network and welcomes trade<br />
enquiries.<br />
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staircases, shutters, arches<br />
and beam caging<br />
For more information, contact:<br />
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Infrastructure<br />
Construction of SA’s largest<br />
hydropower station 'on track'<br />
The Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme project in the Little Drakensberg has<br />
made significant progress since its inception in 2004, steadily surging towards<br />
its 2015 completion goal. When up and running, this hydropower station will<br />
serve South Africa’s increasing demand for peak energy to meet the demand of<br />
a growing industrial sector and a successful rural electrification programme.<br />
The Braamhoek Joint Venture led by GIBB was<br />
appointed for the design and construction<br />
supervision of the project. The project, which<br />
includes the 40m high RCC Braamhoek Dam and 50m high<br />
CFRD Bedford Dam (both completed in 2011), two caverns,<br />
four surge tanks, four drainage and ventilation shafts and<br />
over 14km of tunnels, is set to be the largest hydropower<br />
and tunneling project in Southern Africa.<br />
Located in the Drakensberg mountain range between<br />
Harrismith and Ladysmith, the Ingula Pumped Storage<br />
Scheme aims to generate a capacity of 1 332MW with an<br />
energy storage capacity of 21 000MWh (15.8 generating<br />
hours).<br />
According to Colin Logan, Technical Executive of Dams,<br />
Hydropower and Underground Works at GIBB, the project<br />
is on track with the last stages of excavation currently<br />
taking place.<br />
“We reached some important milestones in 2012,” says<br />
Logan. “In January, we completed the excavation of the<br />
Machine Hall. Concrete encasement of the first Draft Tube<br />
was completed in August and the first Spiral Case was<br />
installed shortly after. In December 2012, the second<br />
Spiral Case was transported to the Erection Bay. This is<br />
currently being prepared for installation.”<br />
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Infrastructure<br />
The first of the four 333MW pump turbine units is<br />
expected to be commissioned in the second quarter of<br />
2014, with the remaining units to start commercial<br />
operation in 2014 and 2015.<br />
“To date, excavation of the Surge Chambers is 76%<br />
complete and the Surge Shaft’s concrete lining<br />
commenced in January. With regards to progress on other<br />
underground structures, work on the installation of the<br />
steel linings for the High Pressure Inclined Shafts is 40%<br />
complete.<br />
We will use approximately two kilometres of steel lining<br />
for the two underground waterways,” says Logan.<br />
In total, there are four pumped storage stations in South<br />
Africa, which includes Ingula. “We are proud to be an<br />
integral part of the largest hydropower and tunneling<br />
project in South Africa,” says Logan.<br />
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Bricks & Paving<br />
PMSA launches mobile solutions<br />
for its African customer base<br />
In order to overcome the logistical challenges associated with rough terrain and<br />
remote locations in Africa, mobile brick making machines have been launched<br />
in the regional market by Pan Mixers South Africa (PMSA), the largest supplier<br />
of concrete, brick, block and paving making machinery and technology in Africa.<br />
PMSA marketing and sales manager, Quintin Booysen<br />
points out that the company delivered several<br />
mobile plants, including a mobile VB1X concrete<br />
block making machine in May 2013 to a construction client<br />
based in the Democratic Republic of Congo. "As Africa<br />
develops and infrastructure is rolled out, the demand for<br />
mobile machines in various forms is increasing, and PMSA<br />
has identified this trend early."<br />
The VB1X is capable of producing up to 60 000 stock<br />
bricks per day, and Booysen highlights the fact that the<br />
mobile version of the machine does not force the owner to<br />
invest in a large capital outlay into fixed infrastructure<br />
that is typically left behind when a project is complete.<br />
"The mobile machine can simply be moved on to the next<br />
site, thereby enabling customers to produce high volumes<br />
of bricks without constantly investing additional capital,<br />
even in the most remote locations," he explains.<br />
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The mobile VB1X block making machine features remote electrohydraulic<br />
controls to ensure a trouble-free operation, in addition to a<br />
high energy double-shaft directional vibrator with maintenance-free<br />
dynamic braking. Booysen notes that the electro-hydraulic operation<br />
of the tamper, mould box and feed drawer ensures automatic filling of<br />
the mould from the overhead concrete holding bin. "What's more, an<br />
automatic hydraulic pallet feeder feeds pallets from the magazine to<br />
the moulding head and ejects them onto the take-off conveyor," he<br />
continues.<br />
Booysen notes that the mobile VB1X block making machine is<br />
purpose built for the challenging African terrain and weather<br />
conditions. "PMSA is the leading and largest supplier of brick and<br />
block making machinery in Africa, and all our equipment is capable of<br />
producing high quality end products that meet the SANS standards.<br />
Furthermore, PMSA also offers both fixed and mobile machinery with<br />
topping feed attachments for paving manufacture that requires SANS<br />
1058 for concrete paving blocks."<br />
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RE600, VB1 and UNI Plant block making machines in mobile models.<br />
"<strong>Development</strong> in Africa is taking place at a rapid rate, and as<br />
industrialisation continues, I believe that mining, housing and<br />
government projects in particular will benefit from the PMSA mobile<br />
plant range where high capacity bricks and blocks are required in the<br />
most remote of locations."<br />
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Booysen stresses that the company is able to deliver the highest<br />
standards of customer service and quick turnaround time on spares,<br />
due to the fact that it has a comprehensive stockholding on-site to<br />
eliminate the associated risks of downtime for its clients.<br />
“PMSA prides itself on assisting its customers in being successful in<br />
every aspect of their business, by consistently delivering on its<br />
promises. We always endeavour to ensure that we can source a part<br />
that is a non-stock item in the shortest time possible, in order to<br />
ensure that customers remain successful, competitive and<br />
productive,” he says.<br />
What’s more, Booysen points out that PMSA produces all the principal<br />
components and assemblies in-house for the range of equipment<br />
manufactured by the company. “PMSA reduces its reliance on outside<br />
suppliers, as their level of service does not always meet with the<br />
company’s high expectations of quality, delivery and turnaround<br />
time. By manufacturing our own components, in-house specialists are<br />
able to source and address any problems swiftly and effectively,” he<br />
concludes.<br />
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Infrastructure development<br />
PPC CEO calls for<br />
infrastructure CODESA<br />
Ketso Gordhan, CEO of the leading supplier of cement in southern Africa, PPC Ltd.,<br />
has called for the creation of an infrastructure negotiation body similar to that of<br />
the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) as a critical step to kickstart<br />
implementation of much needed infrastructure development in South Africa.<br />
“It is clear that infrastructure bottlenecks by both the<br />
public and private sectors need to be addressed, not<br />
through agreeing to generic accords but rather through<br />
implementable plans with clear roles, responsibilities and<br />
deadlines. The methodology is simple. Before 1994<br />
people wanted a democratic South Africa. The National<br />
Party and the ANC both raised issues that were preventing<br />
them from moving forward in this regard. So, they put<br />
together a working group on each of those issues and<br />
came back with solutions. All the things that we see today<br />
were compromises that emerged from discussions and<br />
negotiations,” said Gordhan.<br />
Speaking at an International Project Finance Association<br />
(IPFA) event in Sandton, Mr Gordhan was adamant that<br />
negotiations between the national government and the<br />
private sector would substantially increase the number of<br />
infrastructure developments completed.<br />
“Moves like this are where we can make the most<br />
significant impact on our global competitiveness as a<br />
country. We continue to score poorly in the World<br />
Economic Forum’s Global Competitive Index and we have<br />
to come to terms with the fact that we cannot boost the<br />
competitiveness of our economy, boost sustainable<br />
infrastructure growth and boost job creation by doing<br />
more than agreeing to the ideals of a plan,” he said.<br />
By getting the national government and private sector<br />
together in one room, Gordhan said that many problems<br />
currently facing the industry would be solved. One of the<br />
biggest issues government has is that they believed they<br />
overpaid on previous public–private partnerships (PPP).<br />
“Let’s use the prison example. Government had a<br />
description of the sort of prison it wanted to have; if you<br />
had a look at the description it looked like a 5-star hotel.<br />
Instead of the private sector coming back and saying that<br />
it is not very functional, now we have something that is<br />
way too expensive. It costs us around R75,000 a year for<br />
one prisoner per year; a pensioner gets R1,200 a month.<br />
If you weigh up those two things; here is a guy who has<br />
done something wrong so we lock him up.<br />
Ketso Gordhan, CEO of PPC Ltd.<br />
The reality is it is costing us that much money each year, it<br />
just doesn’t sound right,” he said.<br />
Regarding previous sectors in the PPP arena, Gordhan<br />
believes there are three reasons why success has been<br />
experienced in the last 15 years. Firstly, it was due to a<br />
strong political will to get the job done.<br />
“If there is a strong political will to get something done,<br />
the chances of success are much higher. We saw that with<br />
the Gautrain project; it was because the MEC, Premier and<br />
the national government really wanted the project to get<br />
done,” he explained.<br />
Secondly, the existence of strong officials on projects was<br />
crucial. “They knew how to get the decisions through the<br />
various mechanisms in government, how to interact with<br />
the private sector, and how to get the best advice to make<br />
things to happen. A strong official makes a huge<br />
difference.”<br />
Gordhan believes that the third reason was the<br />
combination of all of these and the existence of a very<br />
simple transparent process with a clear allocation of risk.<br />
“If all these things are present there will be no debates<br />
about who should be doing what. Once you have a clearcut<br />
mechanism for dealing with the project, the chances of<br />
success improve immensely.”<br />
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sahf<br />
Conference<br />
Public Private Partnerships<br />
International Conference, Exhibition &<br />
Housing Awards 15 - 19 September 2013<br />
Southern Sun, Cape Sun, Strand Street, Cape Town<br />
Zou Kota-Fredericks<br />
Deputy Minister:<br />
National Department of<br />
Human Settlements, SA<br />
Mr Xolile George<br />
CEO:<br />
South African Local<br />
Government Association<br />
(SALGA)<br />
Mr Olebogeng Mojaki<br />
Strategic Housing Planner:<br />
Mangaung Metropolitan<br />
Municipality<br />
Mr Preston Prince<br />
Senior Vice President:<br />
National Association of<br />
Housing & Redevelopment<br />
Officials (NAHRO), USA<br />
Now is the time for the public service to act<br />
decisively and implement Public Private<br />
Partnerships to a much greater degree in support of<br />
the sustainable development of human settlements. With<br />
urban areas straining under greater pressure from the<br />
rapid growth of informal settlements, local authorities<br />
need to implement a range of housing options which can<br />
only succeed with joint ventures.<br />
“With distressing statistics about rising cost burdens,<br />
increasing foreclosure rates, rising unemployment, falling<br />
wages, and widespread homelessness, building affordable<br />
housing is one of our most pressing social policy<br />
problems.” – Nestor M. Davidson and Robin Paul Malloy<br />
This four-day accredited, peer reviewed conference will<br />
expose delegates to the latest housing information, will<br />
focus on ‘Public Private Partnerships’ and will be attended<br />
by 400 delegates, including government ministers,<br />
provincial and local authority officials, as well as private<br />
organisations involved in building a more prosperous<br />
South Africa.<br />
The conference will highlight the development of housing<br />
associations, public services, innovation and green<br />
policies, social and rental housing, the built environment,<br />
education and training and the Cape Town for World<br />
Design Capital 2014 initiative.<br />
PROGRAMME<br />
Sun, 15 Sept 2013 • Welcome Cocktail Function and opening of Exhibition 18h00<br />
Mon, 16 Sept 2013<br />
Tue, 17 Sept 2013<br />
Wed, 18 Sept 2013<br />
• Official opening of Conference - Speaker Sessions<br />
• Wine Tasting of premier South African Wines<br />
• Conference - Speaker Sessions<br />
• African Evening Experience Gala Dinner & Housing Awards - moyo, Spier Wine Estate<br />
• Conference - Speaker Sessions<br />
• Official visit to the Houses of Parliament<br />
09h15 - 17h00<br />
17h00<br />
09h00 - 16h00<br />
19h00<br />
09h00 - 13h00<br />
14h00 - 16h00<br />
Thurs, 19 Sept 2013 • Technical Housing Tour of Public and Private <strong>Development</strong>s 09h00 - 15h00<br />
Contact: events@sahf.org.za; Tel: +27 (0) 21 987 7950; Fax: 086 528 1398<br />
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sahf<br />
SAHF Education & Training<br />
4-day introductory human settlements workshop/course<br />
Overview<br />
SAHF Education & Training offers the opportunity to enrol<br />
for an SAHF-accredited four-day Human<br />
Settlements Certificate Course for housing professionals,<br />
local authority officials and town planning staff. The<br />
course is designed to introduce people to the philosophy<br />
and benefits of implementing sustainable human<br />
settlements and to draw delegates’ attention to two main<br />
subjects, namely Land and Housing <strong>Development</strong>, in<br />
particular the development of virgin land and the methods<br />
of its continuous upgrading, including the latest designs in<br />
green urban layout and mixed land use.<br />
The four day workshop/course will include presentations<br />
by professionals in the field of Human Settlements. Up-todate<br />
information will be presented by the SHRA (Social<br />
Housing Regulatory Authority), the NHBRC (National Home<br />
Builders Registration Council), a senior project manager<br />
from a Metro Council, as well as an emerging contractor.<br />
The course lectures are co-ordinated and presented by Dr.<br />
Toni Lamont, a qualified Town and Regional Planner and<br />
Sociologist with vast experience on the dynamics of<br />
Human Settlements <strong>Development</strong>, with over four decades<br />
of tertiary education and housing experience, social<br />
consultancy and research.<br />
The four-day course consists of the<br />
following modules:<br />
• The Housing Act No.107 of 1997<br />
• Millennium <strong>Development</strong> Goals<br />
• Land Reform<br />
• Social and Community Rental Policies<br />
• Municipal Infrastructure Grant<br />
• Programmes<br />
• Housing Finance<br />
• Consumerism<br />
• National Environmental Management Act<br />
• Social Impact Assessment<br />
• Property Associations Act<br />
And more<br />
The course fee covers:<br />
• Lecture Notes<br />
• Technical Housing Tour<br />
• Refreshments<br />
• Lunch<br />
• Wine Tasting<br />
Venue: Cape Sun, Strand Street, Cape Town<br />
Date: 16 - 19 September 2013<br />
For further information or to register please email<br />
education@sahf.org.za or call 021 987 7950.<br />
SAHF Class of 2012.<br />
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SAHF Education & Training<br />
3-day collaborative housing development workshop/course<br />
Overview<br />
Government everywhere finds it very difficult to achieve<br />
real and lasting success in low-income housing without<br />
involving communities and other stakeholders in the<br />
process. Community-based organisations have also found<br />
it difficult to become successful developers without a<br />
strong association with government and other sectors.<br />
However, the greatest challenge for either party has been<br />
to reach out and create the collaborations across sectors<br />
that are so essential. <strong>Development</strong> professionals have<br />
been trained to serve their paymasters, not to enable<br />
collaborations. Although collaboration is so important it is<br />
invariably a last resort, by which time much goodwill and<br />
resources have been dissipated.<br />
This three-day course explores the nature of successful<br />
collaborations, the necessary ingredients, the required<br />
processes, the pitfalls to be anticipated and the skills that<br />
must be acquired. The course will be interactive and<br />
designed to help delegates apply the subject matter to<br />
their own circumstances.<br />
Day 1: will focus on the principles, possibilities and<br />
processes of collaborative development and require<br />
delegates to formulate a collaborative process and<br />
programme to apply to a project of their choice.<br />
Day 2: will concentrate upon the structures, agreements<br />
and linkages necessary to accommodate such a<br />
collaborative process and will enable delegates to add<br />
form and structure to their proposed process.<br />
Day 3: will address how process and structure can be<br />
integrated, managed and enabled to achieve sustained<br />
success.<br />
Delegates will receive a pack of documents on registration<br />
– mainly strategic design diagrams and tables rather than<br />
lengthy texts. The course will be directed at anyone who is<br />
responsible for managing, implementing or facilitating<br />
constructive responses to low-cost housing issues, or who<br />
would like to play such a role. Delegates may therefore<br />
come from the public sector (municipalities, provincial<br />
departments, housing agencies), civil society (NGOs,<br />
community-based organisations or welfare groups) or the<br />
private sector (e.g. consultants, project coordinators &<br />
facilitators) – the more diverse the better.<br />
Applicants will be required in advance to complete the<br />
preliminary section of the Course Evaluation Form by<br />
providing reasons for their interest in collaboration and a<br />
brief outline of the projects and challenges that they wish<br />
to address.<br />
This information will be used in three ways: to help inform<br />
the nature of the course input; it will be summarised in a<br />
directory of all delegates to promote intercommunication;<br />
and it will provide each delegate with a<br />
baseline from which to complete the Course Evaluation<br />
Form at the end of the programme.<br />
Course Presenter<br />
Gerry Adlard is a <strong>Development</strong> Consultant who has<br />
facilitated a variety of collaborative responses to the<br />
housing needs of the poor since 1984, most notably by<br />
coordinating the ‘iSLP’ the state's R1.2 billion flagship<br />
integrated development project from 1992 to 2005. He<br />
has consulted to provincial and local government,<br />
organised business, the United Nations <strong>Development</strong><br />
Programme in Southern Sudan and the World Bank<br />
Institute. In recent years he has focused on the<br />
incremental and participative improvement of informal<br />
settlements, the creation of partnerships for that purpose<br />
and on researching the application of large-scale crosssector<br />
collaboration, on which he is compiling a book for<br />
publication. He is now devoted to fostering a new<br />
generation of development enablers and to the<br />
application of collaborative techniques to other spheres of<br />
development.<br />
Venue: University of Stellenbosch, Bellville Campus,<br />
Carl Cronje Drive, Bellville, Cape Town<br />
Date: 9-11 October 2013<br />
The course fee covers lecture notes, refreshments and<br />
lunch.<br />
For further information or to register please email<br />
education@sahf.org.za or call 021 987 7950.<br />
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Cement & Concrete<br />
100 years of Slurry<br />
PPC Ltd., South Africa’s largest producer of cement, celebrates 100<br />
years since the founding of its iconic Slurry cement factory near<br />
Mafikeng in the North West Province.<br />
From its early beginnings, in 1913, the Slurry factory<br />
quickly turned the South African cement industry into<br />
a competitive and flourishing market, growing annual<br />
cement production from 60 000 tons to 128 000 tons<br />
annually.<br />
Situated on the borders of old Transvaal, in 1916, the<br />
factory produced its first lot of cement and from then on,<br />
has been operating at full capacity, breaking production<br />
records in quick succession.<br />
It is unclear who dubbed the factory ‘Slurry,’ which is the<br />
name of the mixed raw materials of the cement industry<br />
when the wet manufacturing process is used. But at the<br />
time, the name was apt, as the factory utilised a wet<br />
process. It was only in the 1950s that PPC changed the<br />
cement manufacturing process from a wet to a dry process<br />
for which Slurry was altered accordingly – but the name<br />
still stuck.<br />
General Manager at PPC Slurry, Frikkie Van Zyl said,<br />
“Leaders have come and gone, markets have risen and<br />
fallen, our products and processes have evolved over time,<br />
innovation and cost-saving opportunities have been<br />
exploited. Throughout all this, the one constant thing has<br />
been the reliability of our incredible team. Day after day<br />
(and many a night), the people of Slurry have worked<br />
tirelessly to keep the business running. They have<br />
cultivated a ‘can-do’ culture that is sustained by teamwork,<br />
a sense of ownership and accountability, and taking pride<br />
in what they do. We do it together, properly, or we don’t do<br />
it at all.”<br />
“We move with confidence and excitement into the second<br />
century and we are mindful of our responsibility and<br />
privilege, to build a new link in the Slurry chain – a link<br />
that unites our past with future generations of the Slurry<br />
family,” he said.<br />
PPC Chief Executive Officer, Ketso Gordhan said the<br />
company wants to optimise its current operations, and in<br />
particular the Slurry, Dwaalboom and De Hoek plants.<br />
“Slurry’s expansion process is currently under way and its<br />
manufacturing resources and capable team will play a<br />
leading role in ensuring we achieve our objectives,” said<br />
Gordhan.<br />
“By continuously investing in our people and plants, the<br />
company has built a strong foundation on which much of<br />
our country and region rests. PPC has a truly remarkable<br />
history and a proud heritage. For over 120 years this<br />
company has used the vision, courage and sheer<br />
determination of its leaders and their teams to navigate a<br />
course through the nation’s rich, invigorating and, at times,<br />
challenging history. Long may our journey continue,” said<br />
Gordhan.<br />
Follow PPC on Twitter @PPCisCement, like us on<br />
www.facebook.com/PPC.Cement and visit us at www.ppc.co.za.<br />
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Connect with global property<br />
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The Green Building Council South Africa and the World Green Building Council<br />
are collectively powering The Global Green Building Convention 2013 in Cape Town.<br />
This premier event gathers the largest network of influencers and key decision<br />
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Sewage & Reticulation<br />
New extrusion line enables DPI<br />
Plastics to produce 630mm PVC pipes<br />
DPI Plastics, a leading manufacturer of water reticulation, drainage and<br />
pipe-fitting systems in South Africa, is due to begin production of its new<br />
630mm bore PVC pipes in July 2013, following the final installation of its<br />
new Krauss Maffei extrusion line.<br />
DPI Plastics' technical and product manager, Renier<br />
Snyman notes that the company identified the need<br />
to increase the maximum bore of its PVC pipe range<br />
from 500mm to 630mm, following numerous queries from<br />
the local market. "After completing a thorough market<br />
study in late 2012, we identified significant potential for<br />
630mm PVC pipes in bulk water and sewerage<br />
applications, and made the decision to install the new<br />
extrusion lineat our Johannesburg factory in early 2013."<br />
Snyman highlights the fact that the German-engineered<br />
Krauss Maffei extrusion line is capable of producing<br />
approximately 22 tons of PVC pipe per day.<br />
"The extrusion line is expected to be fully installed by<br />
mid-July 2013, and this high production volume will<br />
provide a cost-effective solution and competitive<br />
turnaround times for large scale projects."<br />
In the past, DPI Plastics' only solution for large scale<br />
projects was to lay two parallel 500mm pipelines. Due to<br />
the fact that a 630mm pipeline offers higher outputs,<br />
Snyman points out that only one single pipeline is now<br />
required. "This ensures substantial savings with regards to<br />
materials purchase and transportation costs, and also<br />
significantly reduces installation times and associated<br />
costs, as a direct result of less material being required," he<br />
continues.<br />
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According to Snyman, the new extrusion<br />
line will also open up new avenues of<br />
growth for PVC as a competitor in the bulk<br />
water, stormwater and sewerage<br />
industries - which are currently dominated<br />
by materials such as steel and concrete.<br />
"PVC is more cost-effective and boasts a<br />
longer life expectancy when compared to<br />
industry standard steel and concrete."<br />
Snyman explains that steel and concrete<br />
are often prone to significant corrosion<br />
damage over extended periods. "In<br />
addition to having superior corrosion<br />
resistance properties, PVC is also highly<br />
durable, with low frictional resistance and<br />
low wave celerity, thereby ensuring<br />
resistance to surges," he adds.<br />
DPI Plastics will be manufacturing a total<br />
of three 630mm PVC piping products<br />
using the new Krauss Maffei extrusion<br />
line, namely a SANS 966 approved uPVC<br />
pipe with pressure ratings up to 9 Bar, a<br />
SANS 966 approved mPVC pipe with<br />
pressure ratings up to 12 Bar and a SANS<br />
791-approved underground sewerage and<br />
drainage pipe, which is available in both<br />
standard duty and heavy duty options.<br />
In addition to being readily available in<br />
South Africa, Snyman indicates that the<br />
entire new 630mm PVC piping range will<br />
be exported into Africa too. "Our clients in<br />
Africa have shown a considerable amount<br />
of interest in the 630mm PVC piping<br />
range. With continued infrastructural<br />
development taking place across the<br />
continent, I am confident that the new<br />
range can obtain measurable market share<br />
within a relatively short period of time."<br />
Looking further ahead, Snyman believes<br />
that the introduction of the 630mm PVC<br />
pipe is essential to the long term<br />
sustainability of DPI Plastics. "In a<br />
constantly evolving market, it is important<br />
to proactively adapt to changes, and by<br />
installing the new Krauss Maffei extrusion<br />
line, DPI Plastics is not only increasing its<br />
output capability, but also exposing itself<br />
to new markets. This falls in line with the<br />
company's focus to remain recognised as a<br />
top quality PVC pipe manufacturer," he<br />
concludes.<br />
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cement & concrete<br />
First Sephaku Cement artisans<br />
trained prove their mettle<br />
Any of those from our first group of qualified artisans, born and bred<br />
in the commnities surrounding our plants will be an asset to their<br />
employer, says Sephaku Cement Chief Executive Officer, Pieter Fourie.<br />
Chris Van Aswegen, Reliability Engineer at Sephaku Cement together with three of the successful artisans, Ernest Pule,<br />
Reginald Thafe and Kealeboga Solomon Mosiane.<br />
Sephaku Cement recently celebrated its first grouping<br />
of new artisans, trained through an Artisan<br />
<strong>Development</strong> Programme that is facilitated and fully<br />
sponsored by the company. The learners passed rigorous<br />
Trade Tests to conclude the two year course, which<br />
includes theoretical and workplace experience, making<br />
them either specialist fitter and turners or electricians.<br />
“We have walked closely with the learners these past<br />
years, providing them with funding, mentorship and<br />
guidance,” explains Fourie. Despite not having existing<br />
cement production operations, Sephaku Cement found an<br />
appropriate solution through which to invest in skills<br />
development within Lichtenburg and Delmas-based<br />
communities. Lafarge agreed to host the learners for<br />
theoretical training and during the period the learners<br />
spent 14 months working at Exxaro’s Delmas facility,<br />
where they completed their experiential training.<br />
One of the spinoffs for the artisan learner group was the<br />
teamwork that it built up over the qualification period.<br />
Now a qualified fitter and turner, Reginald Thafe (25) from<br />
Mahikeng in the North West Province had applied for<br />
three consecutive years prior to finding the Sephaku<br />
Cement programme.<br />
He says, “We had to work as a team, supporting each<br />
other, especially in the on site training that challenged us<br />
with real life work experience.”<br />
To be an electrician was a dream for Solomon Mosiane<br />
(33) from Matile Village. “Sephaku Cement has helped me.<br />
If it was not for them I don't know where I would have<br />
been,” he says. Ernest Pule from the Bodibe Village was<br />
previously a bricklayer who had done his N1 and N2 in<br />
Civil Engineering. Now a qualified fitter and turner he<br />
notes, “I am something because of Sephaku. They have<br />
given us support all the time. It was not easy for us and<br />
they have made life easier for me.”<br />
These guys, concludes Fourie, have more than just ticked<br />
the boxes required in their Trade Tests. "They have<br />
mastered a complex set of scarce skills that we need in<br />
our developmental economy. To us, they have proved<br />
beyond a doubt that training partnerships with people<br />
from the communities in which we operate can be very<br />
successful.”<br />
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Events<br />
Master Builders South<br />
Africa Congress 2013<br />
Boost the building industry<br />
From 29 September to 1 October 2013, Master Builders South Africa<br />
(MBSA) - the leading representative body in the building industry and<br />
the national body of the provincial Master Builders Associations and<br />
its affiliated members - will be hosting its annual Congress at the<br />
Indaba Hotel and Conference Centre in Fourways, Johannesburg.<br />
The theme for this year’s Congress is ‘Building South<br />
Africa: Bridging the gap,’ which aims to address the<br />
subjects of transformation, skills, standards and<br />
sustainability within the building and construction<br />
industry. As SA’s leading construction body, the MBSA<br />
Congress brings together role players from different<br />
aspects of the industry including industry leaders, built<br />
environment professionals, academia, youth and member<br />
associations, as well as the public sector. This is an<br />
opportunity to exchange information, participate in<br />
discussions and gain insight from the speakers and has the<br />
aim of facilitating collaboration that will contribute to the<br />
development of the industry and the country.<br />
“The industry has noted a slight but gradual recovery in<br />
2013, which has contributed to industry confidence and<br />
growth, albeit slow. This makes the 2013 Congress an ideal<br />
opportunity to address challenges our members’<br />
businesses face, look at ways to enhance skills capacity<br />
and review important infrastructure projects and<br />
opportunities in South Africa and the rest of the<br />
continent,” says MBSA Executive Director, Tumi Dlamini.<br />
Minister of Public Enterprises, Malusi Gigaba – whose<br />
department and its state-owned entities are responsible<br />
for the vast majority of public infrastructure spend – has<br />
confirmed that he will be this year’s key note speaker.<br />
“Over and above gaining insight from the Minister’s<br />
address, the Congress provides a great opportunity to<br />
understand local and global best practices, keep up to date<br />
with leading and innovative trends, to network with<br />
industry members and to see who the top performers are<br />
in the Health and Safety Awards,” adds Dlamini.<br />
MBSA Executive Director, Tumi Dlamini.<br />
All members of the building and construction industry are<br />
invited to attend the MBSA Congress. For engineers,<br />
architects, construction managers, regulators or<br />
contractors both large and small the Congress is an<br />
important event on the industry calendar to address issues<br />
effecting businesses. Construction managers, engineers<br />
and architects attending the Congress will gain Continuous<br />
Professional <strong>Development</strong> (CPD) points.<br />
Sponsorship and exhibition opportunities are available to<br />
companies wishing to support the event and ensure<br />
visibility of their brand, products and services to industry<br />
players.<br />
For more information, please visit<br />
www.mbsacongress.co.za.<br />
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Sewage & Reticulation<br />
Minister officially opens emergency<br />
pipeline supplied by Incledon<br />
Leading fluid conveyance and pumping solutions provider, Incledon has<br />
assisted the Msukaligwa Municipality in successfully completing an<br />
emergency bulk water supply line, after providing over R7-million worth of<br />
pipes to the project, which was officially opened on June 15 by the Minister<br />
of Water and Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa.<br />
The 12km-long above-ground temporary pipeline will<br />
connect residents and businesses in the Wesselton,<br />
Ermelo and Phumula regions directly to a water<br />
purification plant, following months of irregular and<br />
insufficient water supply.<br />
The emergency bulk water pipeline consists of a 350mm<br />
diameter bulk gravity feeder main that will provide raw<br />
water to the northern water treatment works and southern<br />
water treatment works, in order to address the current<br />
shortages at Douglas Dam and Willem Brummer Dam.<br />
Incledon was contracted in February 2013 to supply the<br />
project with 355mm bore high-density polyethylene<br />
(HDPE) pipes, manufactured by Aquaflow – a South African<br />
market brand leader in the manufacture and supply of a<br />
wide range of extruded piping products.<br />
According to Incledon Civils sales representative, Mac<br />
McLaren, HDPE was selected as the material of choice, due<br />
to its high impact strength, low friction characteristics and<br />
resistance to ultra-violet (UV) radiation. "UV resistance is<br />
an especially important benefit for an above ground<br />
pipeline that is exposed to the damaging effects of<br />
sunshine throughout the course of the day."<br />
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McLaren adds that the lightweight properties of HDPE also<br />
offer environmental advantages, as more products can be<br />
loaded onto a truck, thereby reducing carbon emissions<br />
caused by additional journeys. "Due to its light weight,<br />
HDPE is also quicker and easier to install than steel, which<br />
ensures further savings. The SANS 4427-approved pipes<br />
were delivered to the project by Incledon in 9m lengths,<br />
and have pressure ratings varying between 10 bar and 16<br />
bar."<br />
Molewa notes that the Department of Water and<br />
Environmental Affairs is committed to assisting the<br />
Msukaligwa Municipality, which falls under the greater Gert<br />
Sibande District Municipality, in providing water to the<br />
local communities, with a number of interventions<br />
implemented in direct response to the water crises in the<br />
region.<br />
Part of the long-term solution under consideration is a<br />
parallel process for the provision of a permanent technical<br />
solution to provide water to the Ermelo and Wesselton<br />
service area through the Regional Bulk Infrastructure<br />
Grant, which is worth approximately R32-million and<br />
should be completed by October this year, according to<br />
Molewa. “A further R335-million is earmarked for the<br />
Msukaligwa Water Supply Scheme for Ermelo, Wesselton<br />
and Breyton,” she adds.<br />
Having successfully supplied large volumes of piping<br />
products to numerous municipalities across South Africa,<br />
McLaren is confident of the future outlook for Incledon.<br />
“For more than a century, Incledon has been recognised as<br />
a preferred supplier to municipalities nationwide, due to<br />
the company’s excellent reputation for providing top<br />
quality products that are backed-up by unrivalled aftersales<br />
support,” he concludes.<br />
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news<br />
MBA North and Khuthaza to<br />
expand areas of joint co-operation<br />
Master Builders Association North and Khuthaza have agreed to<br />
continue and expand its current programme of mutually beneficial<br />
co-operation, aimed at fostering the interests of both organisations.<br />
Elizabeth O’Leary, executive director of Khuthaza (centre), pictured at this year’s MBA North AGM with two graduates of Khuthaza<br />
training, Rose Tsenase (left), and Maria Sono (right), who now own successful contracting companies.<br />
Led by executive director, Elizabeth O’Leary, Khuthaza<br />
is a non-profit organisation which seeks to encourage<br />
and contribute to the development of a transformed<br />
and thriving construction industry in which women play a<br />
respected and integral role.<br />
O’Leary recently briefed the MBA North executive<br />
committee on Khuthaza’s operations and areas of mutual<br />
co-operation between the two organisations were<br />
discussed. She told the committee that Khuthaza aims to<br />
prepare women for entrance into the housing and other<br />
construction-related professions, to encourage<br />
entrepreneurship and support women throughout their<br />
career and business life cycles. “Through advocacy,<br />
training and support Khuthaza aims to empower women to<br />
play a leading role in the housing and construction<br />
sectors. Our vision is to create an environment in which<br />
women have equal access to opportunities in housing and<br />
construction,” she told the meeting.<br />
Aspects such as sharing information regarding tenders and<br />
database registration, intern opportunities for new<br />
contractors at larger companies, and generally working<br />
together to facilitate access to experience and work,<br />
access to finance, as well as contractual issues were among<br />
areas of joint co-operation conceptually raised at the<br />
meeting for further discussion and future implementation.<br />
O’Leary said through this partnership with MBA North,<br />
Khuthaza aims to:<br />
• Create a mutually beneficial relationship based on<br />
regular engagement and communication;<br />
• Promote collaborative engagement to create a more<br />
enabling environment for contractor development and<br />
transformation;<br />
• Work together to leverage resources, facilitate<br />
industry interaction and promote and deliver<br />
Enterprise <strong>Development</strong> services and support;<br />
• Promote best practice and communicate success<br />
stories relating to BBBEE and contractor development,<br />
including the successes of MBA North members;<br />
• Provide a forum for the exchange of knowledge,<br />
experience, skills and opportunities; and<br />
• Provide the industry with a wider range of<br />
opportunities to contribute to transformation and<br />
capacity development within the industry.<br />
Deon Landmann, MBA North Education, Training and<br />
Transformation Manager, says MBA North admires and<br />
respects Khuthaza’s efforts in uplifting the role of women<br />
in construction, particularly transforming the lives of<br />
women from the previously disadvantaged sector. “MBA<br />
North – which is also fully committed to transformation<br />
– has already co-operated with and assisted Khuthaza in<br />
several aspects such as Small Builder Training and Health<br />
and Safety. We intend joining forces wherever possible in<br />
future to assist Khuthaza which, in turn, will encourage its<br />
members to join MBA North,” Landmann stated.<br />
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