Solien has installed a vast range of solutions in order to support clients to reduce their carbon footprint and reduce their dependency on traditional energy sources.  For details please visit Solien’s website.

Port Elizabeth continues to be the province’s epicentre where advanced construction technologies are concerned. No sooner has this city celebrated the completion of the world class Nelson Mandela Stadium, a similarly impressive construction technology has broken ground in the province.

Imison™, a large scale construction company with activities in 6 of South Africa’s 9 provinces, is using its ground breaking alternative building technology to build the first of the thousands of  the urban chic units for a quality urban lifestyle. While South Africa has grown in leaps and bounds in the use of most technologies, the country is still steeped in antiquated brick and mortar technology which has shown major limitations in meeting urgent global housing needs.  Imison’s technology does for the housing market what cellphones did for the communications industry by introducing technology that is stronger, smarter and faster. In so doing it has presented itself as the solution to South Africa’s and global housing delivery.
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Imison introduced patented materials, processes and completed buildings that meet the latest international and local policies and initiatives for green construction.  From the replacement of bricks by expanded polystyrene (EPS) in walls, significantly lower cement usage, short construction time, water saving, very limited on-site waste, durability and energy efficient buildings, Imison has brought the South African construction industry into the 21st century. Imison is a member of the Green Building Council of South Africa.
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Government is wedged between a rock and hard place, needing to increase quantity, quality of the current homes being built in a dramatically shorter space of time than it currently takes. As you pointed out in your article, various market forces often conspire to hinder the eradication of the backlog. More money alone is not part of the solution. There is a paradox in housing delivery that ensures that the better the economic conditions become in a country the more difficult it is for a government to deliver adequate houses.

The 2.2m backlog in South Africa, 10m one in China and 400,000 one in the UK illustrates the point. By way of example, if the additional R102bn that is estimated to be required would be made available, the lag in additional import and manufacturing capacity would mean that demand forces would increase the prices of materials in a prohibitive way as many construction booms have shown.
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Imison is setting new standards and records in the building industry.
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