Chebelihle admin block and classrooms complete In the past seven months we have taken fifteen people from this community and brought them from breadline earnings if not less and elevated them to employed and motivated and now starting to think about the possibilities for their futures We have doubled the amount of classrooms at the school and our presence will be felt for months to come.The difference in the community is noticible with alot more development like new houses and a much more substantial spaza shop who has grown with the new demand Our movable partition Water cachment Completed cielings
Posts
Showing posts from 2011
Rammed earth the perfect model to alleviate poverty and unemployment
- Get link
- X
- Other Apps
Two years later and the success of the rammed earth model is starting to be noticed with alot more enquiries and alot more confirmed orders Some new buildings soon on the horizon are NACCW classrooms and admin offices Mamphunga full service school KOBWA nursery building for repatreated community in the Malelane district Ntalantala school in Isandwana area Green is the way to go and if you are looking for originality and buildings with caracter rammed earth is the obvious choice
Where it all began
- Get link
- X
- Other Apps
Rammed earth is an age old building method used thousands of years ago to construct some of the iconic structures of today the great wall of china was mostly build this way with unstabilized rammed earth we have gone one step better and use cement to stabilize the soil used in construction The simplicity and cost effectiveness of this type of construction has many spin offs cheap labuor unskilled low material costs enviromentally sound
Why Rammed earth
- Get link
- X
- Other Apps
Rammteck was formed as one of South Africa's first rammed earth building companies . Not only to promote the art and science of building in rammed earth but to get out there and design, engineer and build it cost-effectively. To bring rammed earth from the status of a "forgotten art", not practiced in South Africa , into the mainstream of the building industry. Rammteck rammed earth is now a modern, structural, load bearing, durable, waterproof, beautiful, artistic, breathing, green, cost-effective, environmentally-sound building material. There is an inherent attraction of rammed earth walls to most people. Nearly everyone who sees a rammed earth wall, and almost certainly those seeing one for the first time, walks up to it and touches it or rubs it, since it is such a tactile material. All people comment on the attractiveness of the look and feel of a rammed earth wall. When walls are being built and the raw earthen materials are laid out on site most peopl...