Construction Technology

Build a house | System  Build a house Build a house - Building system moladi is the world's leading house building construction technology. Construction experts are advocating for intensive and extensive adoption of innovation and low cost technology in a bid to significantly reduce the cost of materials and building processes. This is required in order to produce significant numbers of built houses. How to build a house?   "Due to the simplicity of the house building method, construction techniques and skills can be transferred in a short time. In this way, the communities benefit from affordable shelter and entrepreneurs are skilled at the same time, creating employment," Botes says.  How to build a house How to reduce cost of construction - Link    Housing the Base of the Pyramid - The bottom two thirds of the market pyramid Brick and mortar is dependent on expensive skilled artisans, it is slow and wasteful - therefore expensive - The need to c...

Frugal Innovation | moladi  Frugal Innovation   Frugal Innovation - Reduce the cost of building affordable housing Frugal Innovation - BoP Shelter "We study frugal innovation in relation to economic transformation to find out where and when frugal innovation is capable of positively influencing the lives of people at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP)" - Delft University of Technology and the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.   What is frugal innovation? – Frugal innovation is about lowering the complexity and cost of producing a product - in a scalable and sustainable manner. – Frugal innovation or frugal engineering is the process of reducing the complexity and cost of a product and its production. – In our increasingly resource - constrained world, consumers are demanding affordable, high - quality products that are environmentally friendly and socially inclusive – Navi Radjou discusses his new book " Frugal Innovation: How To Do More With Less ...

Frugal Innovation  Frugal Innovation - moladi Affordable Housing Frugal innovation or frugal engineering is the process of reducing the complexity and cost of a good and its production. - Housing Construction System Frugal Innovation “Frugal Innovation” proposes a breakthrough approach to solving some of the most pressing issues of our global economy as it empowers human beings to use their creativity to generate economic and social value while preserving the environment. "Frugal innovation is a critical business strategy for companies to prosper in a world where customers are both value-conscious and values-oriented. It challenges Western companies to create high quality products that are affordable and sustainable as well as desirable and meaningful for end-users."- Carol L. Cone   Shelter - Housing the base of the pyramid - Low cost housing Shelter - Housing the base of the pyramid - Low cost housing Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Jobs for the unemployed Food f...

HENNIE BOTES - SA Innovation Summit  Hennie Botes - CEO moladi Hennie BOTES BIO Career highlights: 2006 – Housing Innovation Award Winner of the ABSA Bank and NHBRC (National Home Builders Council) national competition in South Africa -   Link 2011 – moladi selected by the Smithsonian Institute to exhibit the technology in association with its Cooper Hewitt Museum at the UN Headquarters in New York -   Link 2016 – Best of African Design – moladi showcased for a year at the Cube Museum in the Netherlands -   Link TITLE OF PRESENTATION Entrepreneurship – A Triathlon FAVOURITE QUOTE Invention creates, Innovation solves. WEBSITE www.moladi.co.za

Innovation - Beyond "Faster Horses" | moladi Innovation - Beyond "Faster Horses" moladi-creative-destruction “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” - Henry Ford -      “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster bricklayers.” - Hennie Botes  moladi moulds mortar   Creative destruction - Time for CHANGE www.moladi.com     Tags: moladi, bricklayer, innovation, invention, new, change, creative destruction, housing, production, plastic formwork, modular formwork, patented, speed, construction, technology, Henry Ford, Hennie Botes

This Low-Cost Innovation could fix the Most Common Urban Problem of Affordable Housing Innovative Construction Technique Innovative construction technique It is difficult to contemplate in abstract the tremendous strain that rapid urbanization has put on housing and serviced land for the urban poor in developing countries. The United Nations Population Fund has projected that by 2030, Africa’s urban population would reach nearly 750 million, creating a dire need for proper housing and access to basic infrastructure and services. More than a dozen African cities would be among the world’s largest by 2025. Moladi , a South Africa-based family-owned business promises to simplify the housing problem. Founder Hennie Botes, using an innovative system of reusable formwork has designed an efficient construction technique that requires formwork moulds assembled with 30cmx30cm plastic panels by extension. The modular construction technique allows for buildings such as houses, schools, community ...

Making Housing Affordable | moladi  Affordable Housing - moladi Making Housing Affordable  Affordable Housing - moladi Making Housing Affordable COST SAVINGS moladi  is able to control costs better by consolidating the supply chain. Its kit concept ensures that it controls costs by sourcing almost all components needed for a building site in one go, ensuring better control over prices and costs. Furthermore, says Hennie Botes, “ the streamlined building process is designed in such a way that we can avoid expensive stoppages which are common on traditional building sites, where the builders have to wait for the electrician, then for the plumber, and new holes need to be drilled every time, wasting building material and time. Furthermore, “ during the design process, precise weight and volume calculations can be made for all materials and components thanks to standardization, which simplifies project management and drastically reduces the wastage factor on site. Finally, the...

Frugal Innovation In Africa | Jugaad Innovation in India Moladi: Frugal Innovation In Africa | Jugaad Innovation in India Frugal Innovation In Africa | Jugaad Innovation in India In many African countries, housing is one of the most sensitive issues affecting the lower income groups. In South Africa for example, close to 13% of the 14.3 million households are informal dwellings (Statistics South Africa, 2011). The term "informal dwelling" is often used in South Africa to designate shacks, corrugated-iron structures and other makeshift shelters. The above statistics represents about 1.8 million households (between 7.2 and 10.8 million people). Informal structures are often made of highly combustible materials such as wood and cardboard which pose serious safety and environmental concerns. The structures are easily damaged and exposed to the external elements meaning that people often live in damp, very hot or very cold conditions. The other concern is inadequate or lack of san...

Quality of SA innovations lauded Government is trying to close the gap between innovation and businesses, with the introduction of the “innovation bridge”. Tuesday marks day one of South Africa’s first “innovation bridge” in Pretoria, a Department of Science and Technology event to match-make innovators with business. While a lot of innovation and research & development (R&D) takes place in South Africa, little of this makes its way onto the market or into companies. Government, through the National Research Foundation, universities and research councils, is the major funder of R&D in the country, but often these developments stay in the laboratory, due to a lack of venture capital, difficulties faced by start-ups or industry ignorance. “The [innovation bridge], which is the first-of-its-kind in South Africa, is intended to exhibit publicly funded technology innovation and create matchmaking opportunities for technology developers, financiers, funders and technology use...

Rural Development - The need for Rural Developers One of the biggest and most crucial issue facing the African Continent is that of urbanisation. Daily people leave their rural villages lured by the prospects of a better life in the city. Yet, this does not happen and more and more cities and city dwellers are struggling under the pressures of "City Living". "Work" to provide "Food" and "Shelter" - this is the basis of survival. If there is no "work" "crime" is one of the next options. Urbanization in Africa - Rural to Urban Africa is a rapidly urbanising continent, which according to the UN Habitat, is increasing at a rate of 230,000 people who are moving into cities across Africa each week. Currently, sub-Saharan Africa alone has an estimated housing deficit of 30 million units and every year, the backlog of houses across Africa’s 54 countries collectively increases by 4 million houses. With the population of the African con...