Cebelihle school
Biggest rammed earth buildings in the southern hemisphere done by Rammteck watch this space for number Six and seven olso in kzn area
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Where it all began
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
List of completed projects
Projects that RammTeck has consulted and worked on Mablomong pilot project admin block Mablomong phase 2 three classroom block Buthlebamangwe 4 classroom building Mamphunga admin offices and 3 classrooms Chebelihle admin offices and 4 classrooms Ntalantala school 3 classrooms and computer room
Why Rammed earth
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
