A company specialising in inexpensive construction technology for mass housing schemes has just established a new factory in Port Elizabeth.

The inventor, Hennie Botes, said that the decision to open the factory was based on reducing production costs, in order to capture the affordable and low-income housing market. According to Botes this is achieved by consolidating the supply chain involved in the construction of a whole house, and to offer a comprehensive supply entity.

Botes said that the concept came to him in 1986 while building a wall around his first home. The building process took up quite a bit of time and he investigated alternatives to reduce the construction time and still create a good quality wall.

According to Botes Moladi is a low construction cost technology and has nothing to do with low-cost housing systems. The principle can be applied to any house, whether low-cost housing or for up market developments.

The concept is unique in that it forms all the walls in a building simultaneously. It is can be adapted to various design specifications, whether they are schools, homes, clinics or factories whist maintaining design aesthetics for social acceptability.

For more information contact Hennie Botes on 041 372 2152 or send an email. Click here to visit the website.

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You know that in Africa there is a large deficit in the field of housing. Therefore many Governments establish initiatives to boost social housing construction.We are working on many countries like: Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Gabon, Liberia, etc... The problem is that governments have no money to finance and build them so they are looking for private investors.
Two scenarios are present:
- The countries ahead of the housing boom (Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, and Mali): the private investors finance and market, sometimes the government provides the Land or they establish a join venture with a local investor who owns the land.
- The late, but rich countries (Angola, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon): the Government provides the land, gives guarantees or agrees to buy once construction is completed. These houses are simple cost accessible to people of middle to low level income: cost of sales between 13 million to 20 million Francs CFA(SENEGAL). But it takes a corporation to become the project sponsor. The Company enters into joint venture with the local society. The Partner may be the sponsor of the local company or Joint Venture to raise funds .That is the key to the problem. The Partner will have a subsidiary here in Senegal and in each country or we will have a building program. That is not the Partner who borrow but the local society or Joint Venture. Of course if you have a bank or other financial institution that can accompany you on projects in Africa, it would also be very good to have several possibilities for funding. - Ibrahima