School built with R28m Lotto grant falls to pieces

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thechamp said:
It is a single one put on the inside to support the wall above, will see if I can get a pic, you can see it from the inside if a concrete one is used.
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I get it, I would have thought though, that it would have to be something made of steel to fit on a single course and be hidden though.
But then maybe those bricks going across are hollowed out and more like shaped tiles...
 
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Please - my father-in-law was once hired to renovate the bathrooms of a school in Vereeniging. Total cost was R270 000. But a local newspaper ran a article where the headmaster boasted that the work had cost R715 000, R35 000 less than they had been given by the department of education.
 
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Sweevo said:
I get it, I would have thought though, that it would have to be something made of steel to fit on a single course and be hidden though.
But then maybe those bricks going across are hollowed out and more like shaped tiles...
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Hollowing it out would be too much work and require power tools.
A concrete lintol normally contains pre-stressed steel wire to compress the concrete which makes it stronger and allows it to not sag. Normal steel does not have the same pre-stressed qualities and would require a heavier more expensive steel beam, the dimensions depending on orientation.

And just on an aside - building those requires the bricks and lintol be built wet with a good cement mixture and not allowing it to dry too quickly. Wet building is true for any good brick work in a hot area. But it's messy and more work to clean up on face or semi-face brick. So people try their luck ...
 
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Any news on this story? I am interested how it is going to end. No consequences?
 
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ɹǝuuᴉM said:
Any news on this story? I am interested how it is going to end. No consequences?
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NLC will probably conduct an audit/investigation of their own before proceeding with criminal charges/civil claims. No official statement from them so far.
 
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Dave said:
What consequences would you expect there to be?
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Have the builder struck from the builders association roll. Have an internal investigation to see what happened.
 
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Have the builder struck from the builders association roll. Have an internal investigation to see what happened.
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Not what should happen, do you actually expect that to happen?
 
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Sweevo said:
Have the builder struck from the builders association roll. Have an internal investigation to see what happened.
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That hardly happens. There is a number of builders with deplorable reputations who are still allowed to ply their trade openly.
 
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