NEWSWORTHY
COROBRIK SAIA AWARDS
OF MERIT & EXCELLENCE
IN ARCHITECTURE
Obert Chakarisa, the South African
Institute of Architects Chief Executive
Officer,
advising
Above: The Zone Boulevard is part of the multi-million rand redevelopment of the Zone
@ Rosebank shopping centre. To ensure the façade of The Boulevard had a flawless
finish, and guaranteed quality, an entire quarry was purchased.
The three level, black granite, ultra-modern building, with its double-volume entrance
ceiling, designed to symbolise the city grid and the movement of the people across
the square, is home to Life Healthcare on the top two storeys and on the ground floor,
News Café, RocoMamas and Bombay Blue restaurants.
The
has
pleasure
Corobrik
in
SAIA
Awards of Merit and Awards for
Excellence will be presented at
Shine Studios in Braamfontein on
Friday 2 September 2016.
The Awards of Merit and the
Awards for Excellence is the highest accolade that can be bestowed
on a building in South Africa.
Envirobuild, KwaZulu-Natal’s first manufacturer of eco-friendly rubber flooring
for commercial, industrial and residential
use, has launched an extensive range of
rubber paving tiles and bricks made from
recycled truck tyres. A joint venture between
entrepreneur Jaco Snyman, carpeting and
flooring giant Van Dyck and Hammarsdalebased Mathe Group, Envirobuild will produce
a high quality product that is suitable for the
local market and export.
Jaco Snyman, managing director of Envirobuild, says that the new products, which
include 93% recycled materials, are a perfect fit with increasing demand for greener flooring
options. “There is very little high quality flooring of this nature produced locally so there is
definitely a market for it. We are the first company to produce eco-friendly rubber flooring
in KwaZulu-Natal and one of very few in South Africa,” he said.
A wide variety of flooring products, including rubber paving bricks, Dog Bone paving bricks,
rubber paving tiles, a twin brick pattern tile and an interlocking tile will be manufactured at
Van Dyck’s factory.
Envirobuild products are low maintenance and durable and are quick and easy to lay.
Because rubber bricks are much lighter than brick or concrete paving and some products
come in sheets, they can be laid more quickly and easily with the added bonus of far less
breakage. This negates additional outlay to cover damaged materials. In addition, they are
easy to lift and replace should repairs to water pipes or under floor cabling be necessary.
Rubber paving is ideal for slopes where there is the risk of moving ground and the need
for increased flexibility to mould to the shape of the surface.
Currently, Envirobuild is working towards
receiving Green Tag certification in order to further
enhance its presence in the sustainable building
materials market.
This is expected to be boosted by the fact that
Van Dyck is both ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001
accredited. In 2013, it became one of just a handful
of companies with ISO 14064-1 accreditation due
to massive reduction in greenhouse emissions.
www.envirobuild.co.za
News Watch
www.saia.org.za
DHK ANNOUNCES
ARCHITECTURE
EXHIBITION IN CAPE TOWN
dhk architects will be holding an
exhibition at The Architect gallery
space at the Cape Institute for
Architecture during August.
The show will include past, present
and future work demonstrated
through a combination of photography,
architectural
models
and
3D
drawings,
visualisations
documenting the art of architecture
and the evolution of dhk.
The exhibition will open to the
public for First Thursdays on 4
August and run until Thursday 25
August 2016. The gallery will be
open weekdays 11am - 4pm and
Saturdays 9am - 1pm. The show
forms part of the Open Design
Cape Town festival programme
and will play host to several other
events throughout this period.
www.dhk.co.za
PHOTO: GRANT PAYNE
RUBBER FLOORING TO BE
MADE FROM TRUCK TYRES
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