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Ruach

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The technology (materials and method) for erecting, in 1 day, a home that nets zero energy, is resistant to termites, hurricanes, fires and earthquakes, and costs about 15% less than a standard home of the same size exists NOW.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDsEEYhxknc[/ame]

Im sorry how ****ing long is it going to take the SA guavament to realise that their RDP housing program is stupid and in the long run going to cost the taxpayer more money to maintain? You cant pick up a newspaper withouth finding that the current RDP houses that we are building for the masses are NOT energy efficient (http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/ar...-in-energy-efficiency-says-company-2003-06-06) are NOT being finished by the tender winners (http://www.eprop.co.za/news/article.aspx?idArticle=6334) and are of such a **** quality that they are costing us millions to repair (http://www.ngopulse.org/newsflash/r100m-repair-defective-rdp-houses)

Can someone please slap some ****ing sense into this government?!?!
 
Intriguing idea. And they're probably more stable than the current batch of RDP houses.
 
if you watch the whole thing, you can see that there is a 1 man operated machine that makes 90% of all the pieces. Now couple that with cheap labor and we can build 100s of these in the space/time/total-cost (inc cost over time of energy subs) in the space/time of a couple of the current ones

i wish for a better govt.
 
Ruach said:
if you watch the whole thing, you can see that there is a 1 man operated machine that makes 90% of all the pieces. Now couple that with cheap labor and we can build 100s of these in the space/time/total-cost (inc cost over time of energy subs) in the space/time of a couple of the current ones

i wish for a better govt.
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The other suggestion was blocks of two or three storey flats, similar to social housing in Britain. Shared walls and land would make it much cheaper. But no, these homeless would rather sit in their shacks and wait an extra 10 or 20 years to have their own little piece of land in the sun.

*sigh*

Until the population wises up we won't have a better government, I'm afraid.
 
Numerous studies have been conducted re: types of homes (sorry no sources) and the people will only accept brick houses.
 
TooFastTim said:
Numerous studies have been conducted re: types of homes (sorry no sources) and the people will only accept brick houses.
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I've heard this as well, but no idea how true it is. Although, it wouldn't surprise me that in ZA, beggars can be choosers.
 
Lycanthrope said:
I've heard this as well, but no idea how true it is. Although, it wouldn't surprise me that in ZA, beggars can be choosers.
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Well then they need to spend another 10 years in their squatter camps. Perhaps they should be given the option? Prefabricated house now, or brick house in several years time.

These studies are only statistical but don't take into account the people who are only too willing to take shelter now. These aren't some low quality dwellings and if you demoed them to the population perhaps you could change quite a few people's minds.
 
timgaul said:
Well then they need to spend another 10 years in their squatter camps. Perhaps they should be given the option? Prefabricated house now, or brick house in several years time.

These studies are only statistical but don't take into account the people who are only too willing to take shelter now. These aren't some low quality dwellings and if you demoed them to the population perhaps you could change quite a few people's minds.
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I agree. A comfortable roof over your head is still a comfortable roof over your head. You can always work towards a brick house later if it's so important to you, but at least you'd have a house in the meantime.

I like this one-day house concept a lot and believe it could definitely make a very positive difference.
 
I for the life of me cannot understand why they cannot manufacture modular homes that a truck delivers to a prepared site.

I noticed plastic/fibreglass prefab sheds on railway property years ago, many of them are still there.

The modern equivalent would:

Plug into water, electricity and telecom mains with the infrastructure built into the house.

Certain furniture could be Pre-moulded into the house, Kitchen & bathroom, cabinets and fittings come to mind, likewise cupboards, shelves and drawers. Walls could be ordered with bunk beds, or fold down desks. Labour savings on construct could be applied to making the houses energy efficient, Insulation built in at factory, use of solar panels to reduce heating costs.

What you can do is endless, it just needs to be balance with economy.
 
TooFastTim said:
Numerous studies have been conducted re: types of homes (sorry no sources) and the people will only accept brick houses.
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Not true in America where 99% of homes are timber. Very true in SA though, but an interesting fact is that timber homes cost 10% more than brick homes here although the build time is quicker which offsets some cost such as rental. Still, I cannot understand why timber homes are more expensive than brick.
 
@ hosehead: tho this is neiter. These homes are foam and some form of metal. Honestly people must bitch about wanting brick homes. these are the RDP houses. u want? you take this nice, warm, cheap to maintain/run house.

you dont? ...well then you goto start grafting or wait for a ****ty concret/brick POS RDP house.

the problem is the masses are noobs. noobs following bigger noobs.
 
I'd actually like to build a steel frame house for my own home. The ones in the video look especially nice.
 
I cant see that they can/could complain. By getting a house like this and not a brick house they have:

Cheaper running costs (heating/cooling)
Less fire risk
A bigger house
access to indoor plumbing
a house in a week tops instead of 5-10years (that will last for 1-3years)
 
What is involved with producing these houses? Ie. transforming raw materials into the parts that go together to build a house?
 
The time lapse at the end of that video was awesome...framing a house completely in 10 hours is amazing!

This could definitely be a potential solution for SA because I've also seen some reports on TV about RDP housing where they were, to put it mildly, of CRAP quality. Contractors have even flat out lied to government that RDP housing plumbing and exposed electricity wires were fixed when in fact they weren't. Houses like these with prefabricated outlets and connections for the basics like electricity and water are a big plus IMO.

If the comment about our homeless people only willing to accept bric houses, then I'm pretty shocked. If true, then they can stick with zinc until they wise up a bit.
 
would a group like habitat for humanity not consider doing something like this, i mean they do come here and the corporate sector gets involved and they build house so why not try that?
 
In Montanapark in Pta there is a house(in Braam Pretorius street) whose second story was built with steel frame and polystyrene.

Turned out lovely!:D
 
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