Building systems and materials

The highest Terraforce earth retaining wall in the company’s history – designed by the product licensee, Geoduvar, in Istanbul, Turkey – stabilises cut and fill slopes in the Karlitepe Road Project in the Beykoz area of Istanbul. Add a comment...

Ash Resources  has introduced a new, improved performance, classified fly ash, DuraPozz Pro, to the South African market. The company’s products, which for more than 30 years have been used successfully as cement extenders, are by-products from electricity generation at Eskom’s coal-fired power stations. DuraPozz Pro is produced at Ash Resources’ plant at Matla in Mpumalanga. Add a...

Hanlie Turner, marketing manager at the Cement & Concrete Institute (C&CI), says that as a building material for housing concrete is fire-resistant, rot-proof, durable, and can be used in a wide variety of applications. Turner says concrete is found from top to bottom in housing: in foundations, floors, structural frames, walls, roof slabs, and roof cladding. It is also used in partitions, pat...

In March, The Aveng Group  and the David Rattray Foundation celebrated the opening of the new administration block at Mablomong Primary School – an occasion shared with teachers and learners from the school and the people from the community who had helped in the construction. Add a comment...