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PROJECT
INCORPORATING COLD CHAIN
placing them on their sides on a shutter humans are eradicating our fauna and
board and pouring concrete in to form flora at an exponential rate, while the
a base. These altered blocks were then earth’s human population is rapidly nearing
used for the ‘holes’ in the wall, as well as for its limit. “The client is a future thinker and
planters and lights. The faces of the blocks realises how our perceived value of all
were topped off with a matt sealer. genetic diversity will change in the near
The Emantini Seed Bank is located
on a private estate, and forms part of
The Emantini Seed Bank is located on a private estate, and forms part of a
private nature reserve.
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“He is a keen plant enthusiast and
a private nature reserve, nursery, and would like his personal legacy to be a
botanical garden. The main contractor priceless gift back to society. Thus, he
was AMS Construction, under the had this vision of popularising the idea
leadership of Director Carlos dos Santos, of safeguarding plant genetics. The first
who collaborated with the Paragon step in this mammoth task has been to
Group on the Malkerns Square Estate and create a cost-effective and beautiful
Matsapha Link Shopping Centre, both in Seed Bank as a prototype, in the hope
Swaziland. These projects also focused on to inspire other like-minded people to do
conventional construction methodologies, the same. He is convinced that the only
materials, and non-specialised skills. way to save the planet is by changing
Commenting on the importance of the
The Emantini Seed Bank in Swaziland aims to safeguard genetic diversity.
future especially, when it is too late.
the way we think, and this project
Seed Bank as a specialised conservation was a good place to start,” Veldsman
measure, Veldsman elaborates that concludes.  CLA
The construction consists of two refrigerated storage facilities, a laboratory, amenities, and a
courtyard.
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