SA Affordable Housing July / August 2017 // Issue: 65 | Page 14

ASSOCIATIONS
Want to win a trip to Paris
worth R125 000?
The Southern Africa Stainless Steel Development Association (Sassda)
is rebuilding the Eiffel Tower and they need your help to do it.
T
o enter the Paris competition, you need to make use
of the Life Cycle Costing App, or use the Life Cycle
Costing software on the Sassda website.
To rebuild the Eiffel Tower you will have to decide
whether to use more expensive lean duplex stainless
which has the advantage of retaining the original stainless
steel look and finish over 100 years. Or you can select a
utility ferritic stainless steel, which will weather over time
to form a brown patina. Both stainless steels are equally
suitable for building the Eiffel tower and both answers are
equally eligible for winning the competition.
Using this information calculate the answers to the
following questions:
1. Calculate and compare, in US dollars, what the initial
costs would be to build the Eiffel Tower in 2017 out of
mild steel and utility ferritic stainless steel or lean
duplex stainless steel.
SA Patent no. ZA2011/01062
International Patent Pending - PTC/IB2012/050547
Brick Easy is essentially a system to lay
bricks in a new and improved manner. The
system has been developed to facilitate the
laying of all bricks, including face bricks. The
strain of bricklaying is reduced and shared by
semi-skilled labourers, thus ensuring good
performance. Affordable housing can be the
ideal u
use of the Brick Easy due to the size and
volume of an affordable house. The firm
profile and proper mortar dispersion, using
the mortar box, allows for a very strong build.
Giuseppe Dalla Torre
2. Calculate and compare, in US dollars, what the
operating costs would be for the Eiffel Tower over the
next 100 years if it were built out of mild steel and
utility ferritic stainless steel or lean duplex
stainless steel.
3. Calculate the total life cycle costs (Total LCC) of the
Eiffel Tower in mild steel and lean duplex or utility
ferritic stainless steel.
WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO
Download the Sassda Life Cycle Costing Application
available from the Google Playstore or Apple App Store.
Alternatively, you can use the LCC application found on
Sassda’s website.
Call [phone] or visit: www.sassda.co.za.
BRICKLAYING JIG