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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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.
Source: Imison