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Ahead of the curve
SA Roofing kicks off the new year by looking at the latest trends
projected to reshape the roofing and construction industries.
By Candace Sofianos King
The award winning Cheré Botha School in the Western Cape makes use of a unique building design element in the form of exposed timber roof
trusses – a rising trend in roofing.
A
midst a rocky global economic and
political landscape – which has
affected the overall construction
industry – the roofing sector has turned
towards trend and innovation for answers
and a positive outlook for 2019 and beyond.
While we advocate for change, built
industry professionals must keep an eye on
remaining relevant and offering valuable
services in an evolving world, says Larry
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Feinberg, executive director of the
Association of South African Quantity
Surveyors (ASAQS). Feinberg points out that
the built industry has witnessed product,
process and role changes in recent months.
“Self-healing concrete, air-cleaning
materials, transparent wood and graphene
are just some of the innovative products
that are rapidly moving from being labelled
alternative building materials to more
mainstream. While South Africa has not
yet adopted many of these materials,
construction professionals should not wait
for someone else to be the first to learn
how to work with these materials,”
Feinberg urges.
“Similarly, new techniques in the
construction process like additive
manufacturing – for example the 3D
printing of buildings – also need to be
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