In line with its strategic vision and positioning as a company committed to sustainable innovation, AfriSam has revised its entire product portfolio. Commenting on the new product portfolio, AfriSam’s commercial executive, Grant Neser, says, “The revised product line-up has been developed to deliver the most effective, fit-for-purpose solutions to particular applications. This is the [...]
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The Afrisam-SAIA Award for Sustainable Architecture entries close on 16 March
Concrete is, after water, the second most used product on the planet. This building material has established a reputation as the foundation of economic development and is in high demand by society for use in various infrastructural developments such as houses, schools, roads, dams and many other essential facilities. The production of cement, an ingredient [...]
The Afrisam-SAIA award for sustainable architecture – call for entries
Buildings are responsible for more than 40 percent of the world’s total primary energy consumption and account for 24 percent of world CO2 emissions while it is estimated that 70 percent of the nine billion people predicted to live on earth in 2050 will reside in urban areas. It is essential that architects lead the [...]
Far-reaching benefits through AfriSam’s advanced composite cements
The 20th Century concept of so-called “pure” Portland cement is rapidly becoming obsolete with the development of technologically advanced composite cements far more suited to visionary 21st Century needs. “We are challenged with balancing the increasing demands of ever more sophisticated business and industry with a fragile environment under growing pressure,” Grant Neser, AfriSam’s [...]
Afrisam wins M&G Greening The Future Award
Leading black-controlled construction materials group AfriSam has won a prestigious Greening the Future Award. For the past eight years, the Mail & Guardian (M&G) newspaper’s annual Greening the Future Awards have honoured innovation and action in environmental sustainability. This year the awards built on past successes and reflected the latest thinking, trends and practices [...]
Why use extended rather than pure cements?
Negative perceptions about the durability and performance of extended cements, combined with tradition and a conservative approach to new technology have caused resistance to their use, a situation which is gradually changing, according to experts from AfriSam. “Extended cements are being used increasingly in major projects such as Gautrain, the SANRAL Gauteng Freeway Improvement [...]
AfriSam wins Nedbank environmental award for CO2 emission reduction initiative
Black-controlled construction materials group, AfriSam, has won the environmental category of the Nedbank Capital Green Mining Awards for taking a definitive lead in managing down carbon emissions in the cement production process and for its world leading cement CO2 measurement and rating system. At an awards ceremony held at Nedbank’s head office in Sandton on [...]
The AfriSam-SAIA Award for Sustainable Architecture winners
Koop Design’s Dalton Private Reserve in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands has won the top award at the AfriSam-SAIA Awards for Sustainable Architecture. The award was made at a ceremony at Turbine Hall in Newtown as part of AZA 2010, South Africa’s first architecture mega-event which has brought together leading-edge thinkers and multi-disciplinary practitioners from around the [...]
Latest Issue - May/June 2012
In This Issue:
- The Alexander Forbes head office campus by Paragon Architects
- The New Jerusalem Children’s Home by 4D+A Architects
- The Quarterdeck by CHT Architects
- The 2012 Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year Awards
- Paragon Architects profile
