SA Affordable Housing May - June 2020 // ISSUE: 82 | Page 41

Premod tests housing market PRODUCTS The building system was patented in 2011. Last year the system acquired the approval of Agrément South Africa under Certificate No. 2019/583 and is also NHBRC endorsed. The system delivers a composite wall panel to be used in the erection of homes and buildings. Each panel is manufactured under the ISO9000 quality management systems standards. The composite panels are supplied to the site, as a flat pack kit, where they are erected on an engineer designed concrete floor slab with concrete columns and ring beam on which a double pitched roof structure, with clad gables, is erected. Two low cost homes were built in order to gauge communities’ attitude towards the alternative structure, the comfort and the aesthetics. Built in Marburg and Kwa- Mashu, both were well received by their owners and local community. The initial motivation was to provide quality homes to the low-cost housing market; however, subsequent to the build and government endorsement, the system was welcomed in both the public and private sectors. While tendering for affordable housing projects, the company has built an Early Childhood Development school PREMOD Two low cost homes were built in order to gauge communities’ attitude towards the alternative structure. which was completed in Oct 2019. The company is also looking at Gap and FLISP markets and is actively pursuing this. Handling Kinematics pick-and-place solution supplied to local OEM for new brick and block plant Sew-Eurodrive’s easily-configurable HandlingKinematics pickand-place solution allows for machine control at a higher level by means of a lower-level Configurable Control Unit (CCU) for carrying out precision path movements. During start-up, all the end user is required to do is enter the relevant mechanical data for the initial configuration of the motion parameters. During production, the trajectory positions necessary for commencing movement are simply transferred to the CCU, which coordinates the path movement in real-time. It even allows for ‘wait’ points to be defined in the trajectory. The system is so flexible so that, during palletising and stacking, the target position can be adapted immediately during the runtime by the CCU, without higher-level controller intervention. [email protected] www.saaffordablehousing.co.za MAY - JUNE 2020 39