News & Media
FLOOD CONTROL WORKING IN TSHWANE PROJECT
1 December 2008
Destructive erosion in the Hammanskraal region of Tshwane has been
brought under control following completion of the second phase of a
multi-million rand stormwater canal project. It’s happened just in time
to divert summer floodwaters away from homes and property in the area.
SPEED AND QUALITY WITH
NEW MECHANICAL PAVING
17 September 2008
Concrete products manufacturer Technicrete and Mondo Paving and Retaining Walls have partnered in the introduction to South Africa of the latest mechanical paver-laying technology which has already proven itself on large and small sites around the world.
Technicrete RESPONSE TEAM
IN 1 000km DASH
26 August 2008
A Coastal Technicrete technical team made a there-and-back cross-country trip of almost 1 000kms – all in the cause of customer satisfaction.
DIGNITY AND FORMALITY MARK
SAMORA MACHEL MUSEUM
22 July 2008
For the memorial museum to the late Mozambique president, Samora Machel, on the site of his fatal air crash in 1986 , designers conceived an open surrounding brick-faced structure which would pay due respects to the dead leader – dignified and in keeping with the history of the man without being unnecessarily somber.
“NEIGHBOUR-FRIENDLY” WALL
A NATURAL BARRIER
19 June 2008
How do you screen a new residential complex from old and shabby neighbouring buildings - and do it in an environmentally beneficial way?
TECHNICRETE PALISADE FENCING
18 June 2008
Tan pigment gives a cheerful look to this palisade fencing at the Ligbron Academy of Technology at Ermelo, Mpumalanga. The 600m-long fence shows to advantage the slimmer, more elegant look of a new version of the well-known Technicrete concrete fencing system. Improved appearance has been achieved without any reduction in its integral strength and security.
“LIVING WALL” SOLVES
PARKING PROBLEM
17 June 2008
Technicrete’s Florawall earth terrace retaining system proved an unusually attractive solution to a problem facing developers of the Blue Haze Twin City shopping mall development in Hazyview, Mpumalanga. The problem: how to engineer a support structure for a taxi rank to be constructed at the top of a steep slope adjacent to the mall.
TWIN BENEFITS OF
“LIVING” RETAINER WALLS
16 June 2008
Twin retaining walls not only provided an engineering solution for the creation of stepped parking areas on a steep slope - at the same time they added a strikingly attractive foreground feature for the new Spur steakhouse in Tzaneen.
“RAINBOW PAVEMENT” IN Technicrete
HOMES DEVELOPMENT
13 June 2008
“The best up-market residential development in the Polokwane area” – that’s the view of the developers of Thornhill Estate. Either way, it’s certainly one of the largest, and when completed later this year will be home to about 1 000 households.
PEYPER OFFICE CONVERSION
29 May 2008
Three old houses were renovated and restored and finally transformed into single modern office complex in Welkom, Free State. For architects and designers of the Peyper office precinct, the visual appeal of the extensive surrounding paved areas was a key to achieving the overall success of the restoration project.
Technicrete ESCOLINE BLOCK
AS ENVIRONMENT GUARDIAN
04 April 2008
Technicrete’s Escoline precast concrete block - already used successfully to help prevent possible leakages from fuel storage and sewage farm installations - has been harnessed into a similar environment-protection role at the Tavistock coal mine in Mpumalanga Province.
Technicrete UPGRADES
EASTERN CAPE QUALITY
15 February 2008
Product quality at Coastal Technicrete, a joint venture enterprise involving Technicrete and a black-owned Eastern Cape brick manufacturer, has improved so dramatically that the PE-based company has now been awarded the SABS-SANS 1058 quality mark for its concrete pavers.
HOW TO MAKE RUN-OFF
STORM-WATER DISAPPEAR
02 February 2008
Rapid urbanization is putting increasing strain on municipalities’ drainage systems, as run-off storm-water overloads reticulation and disposal systems, contaminating streams and rivers and inflicting environmental damage. Now, engineers and town planners have found an answer to the problem: Aquaflow, a permeable paving block drainage system which limits run-off and flooding by collecting and storing storm-water.
ROOFLESS WRECK NOW
A BRIGHT NEW SCHOOL
29 January 2008
A bright new crèche where 100 toddlers will be guided through the early years of their development has become a showcase community project in the Seruabatho area of central Limpopo Province. It replaces a roof-less wreck of a building which gave the youngsters little shelter from the elements.
AFTER-SCHOOL CARING JUST A HEART BEAT AWAY
28 January 2008
THERE are perhaps hundreds of thousands of children like them in South Africa – Aids orphans, home-makers who are themselves still children, brothers and sisters linked in a shared loss of parents and a stable home life. But when school’s out, who is there to care for them? Where can they play in safety? Who sees to it that they get their homework done?
Technicrete FOCUSES
ON CHILD CARE
23 January 2008
Caring for Aids orphans and other children in need of protection in places of safety is the central theme of two major community support programmes being financed by Technicrete.