Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa March/April 2015 | Page 68

Clay Brick Construction:

Unquestionably Superior, Right and Proper for
Sustainable School Infrastructure Building
Clay brick wall construction is long proven as the common denominator when
providing truly sustainable, superior performing infrastructure for schools,
clinics and houses across South Africa at the lowest lifetime cost.
www.claybrick.org

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espite this fact the Presidential
Infrastructure Coordinating Commission Council (PICC) resolution
(approved by Cabinet) now requires
60% of Governments social infrastructure
buildings to be constructed with Innovative Building Technologies or IBTs the
new euphemism for Alternate Building
Technologies or ABTs.
This change is based on the assertion
that prefabricated and fabricated ABTs
offer “significant savings in energy and
life-time costs of ownership” (Refer Built
Magazine article ‘LSFB gets the green
light from government’).
Dr Llewellyn Van Wyk, CSIR Principal
Researcher
Building
Science
and
Technology Department, is quoted
as saying: “Of the 40 systems that
have been identified for use in the
construction of schools, 32 of them
perform
better
(generally)
than
conventional buildings” (refer Walls &
Roofs Journal 4 - June 2014).
The Clay Brick Association of South
Africa takes a closer look at five of these
suppose H