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Bricks & Paving
Corobrik Village Antique Travertine bricks have been used to
one metre high to protect the walls from scuffing. The warm
tones of the brickwork are offset by brightly painted
classrooms to encourage learning in a pleasant environment.
Four other schools following the same plan and style are
being constructed in Palm Ridge, Slovoville, Midrand and
Randburg. All were started last year, but the Daveyton
school is the first one to be completed.
For all the publicity afforded to newer lightweight building
techniques, this project has proved that facebrick can
more than hold its own in the face of the competition.
Moreover, the longevity of facebrick and its minimal
maintenance needs were what convinced the Gauteng
Department of Education to go with the material. Half a
million of Corobrik’s Village Antique Travertine facebricks
were used along with over 200 000 clay pavers. The
school is built from facebrick to the top of window height
on the exterior and to 1.2m inside.
Dharmesh Desai from Bricks for Africa, who supplied the
bricks as a distributor of Corobrik products, has a good
relationship with both the company and the building
contractor, and as a result he was instrumental in
specifying Corobrik Cedarberg, Tuscan and Burgundy
pavers.
Clay facebrick is in many ways synonymous with
institutions of learning, and one cannot escape the
integrity that brick brings to school construction, be it
inside or outside. Large paved courtyards give the pupils a
safe and secure place to enjoy their breaks, where single
bullnosed bricks are used to create areas for the children
to sit in comfort.
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