RammTeck. Bringing the past into the future

The fact finding committee that was sent by the MEC for education was taken aback by the work that Rammteck has done on the KZN schools where we have had the opportunity to build our green buildings The group consisted of the Chief architect of KZN public works as well as the Chief architect for the DOE and the KZN provincial director of education The day started off with a technical meeting covering our soil mixing technique, Ramm process, community staff usage, raw material use, carbon footprint statements A big thank you to the people that have fine tuned the rammed earth model  These are Ben Henderson,Rob Taylor,Peter Taylor and Mike Beukes The so called rammed earth model is the way in which we start a project run a project and complete it using local staff and local material and maximize community involvement and minimize the effects on environment and carbon footprint To say the least the delegation was blown away at what we have created with the local communities and

The Kzn MEC for education was very interested in learning all he could in the short time we had to speak but was quite surprised that the work was being done in the community By THE COMMUNITY . If all goes well with the inspectors and engineers and architects it looks quite positive that the government will fund future buildings Our examples of what we can do with unskilled labour and material harvested on site are exemplary

Mr. Edward Senzo  Mchunu MEC kzn Education History was made on the 15th of may as the MEC visited one of Rammtecks eight buildings. The community at Chebelihle school went all out to prepare for the visit and really did a good job of making the minister and all invited delegates feel welcome.As in Zulu tradition a beast was slaughtered the previous day as well as fifteen zulu chickens  and cooking went on for 24 hours before the visit I was very privileged in having the honour of showing the minister around the building and explaining all the positive attributes to building with rammed earth. For some one who has never seen rammed earth it is quite an eye opener and the minister was taken aback by the community involvement the quality of the build and obviously the costs involved  Rammteck and its affiliates Beyond the line and the Rattray foundation have designed a model which encompasses all the problems we currently have in South Africa these being  Backlog in the number of