Clay brick and concrete pavers have been used to good effect in the new Lebone College in North West, a boarding and day school where environmental awareness is built in to daily school life.

Two related companies in the Murray & Roberts Building Products group – Oconbrick and Bafokeng Concor Technicrete – supplied the masonry and paving products for the school. Stefanutti Stocks Building was the main contractor for the project.

More than 2 700 000 clay bricks from Oconbrick were used in construction of the school buildings and two styles of Bafokeng Concor Technicrete pavers were used to pave the footpaths and access routes framing the gardens. In total some 6 000m² of 60mm Double Zig-Zag interlocking concrete pavers were used and about 600m² of Cobblebond slate-coloured pavers. Two different styles of kerbing, also from Bafokeng Concor Technicrete, were used to edge the finished paving.

Lebone College – also known as The College of the Royal Bafokeng – was built at a cost of R544 million. It is an independent primary and secondary school and, from its hilltop site, the school overlooks the provincial capital of Phokeng. Each of its 36 classrooms has its own central courtyard and wide-opening doors and windows accentuate the college’s light, spacious design.

The landscaped gardens are planted with indigenous bushveld vegetation and the school also has its own sewage treatment plant from which treated water is used to irrigate the sports fields.