Home Construction Guide

The outlook on the African Construction industry become undeniably grim in recent years.

Despite the conservative figure in decrease of expansion in the industry, researchers expect the industry to grow. Especially in the Southern African area.

New technologies that are set to revive and re-boost the construction industry this year are…

• Smart helmets and glasses using augmented reality
• Safety vests with built in GPS and sensors
• 3D printing
• Ground- breaking materials such as self-healing concrete
• Driver-less vehicles
• Drones - used for video and picture taking, tracking job progress and inspecting hard to reach places.

All this brings hope to the once slow industry. In our own country we have quite a few companies coming up with innovative ideas as well.

Home-builders!!

For those who may not know, there is a new type of building product which can replace your conventional building brick and make it faster and easier to build your home.
The product is what is called the STUMBELBLOC. It enables many unskilled people to build their own homes using a fast, affordable, cost effective, high quality and long lasting building system.

1. It’s faster, as the blocks interlock and are therefore slotted into place.
2. Its stronger, as the blocs are made of high grade concrete.
3. Cheaper, because with Stumbelbloc you will require only 1 bag of cement every 500 Stumbelblocs!
4. Its easier to use.
5. Accurate.
6. Cooler, as each block has two air filled cavities which are natural thermal insulators
7. Does not require extremely special skills.
Talk about construction made easy!