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A small shopping centre offers a delightful introduction to Turkish shops, a bakery and a restaurant. A university is scheduled for construction in the next two years. Benefactor, Uncle Ali has quietly moved on to his next project and handed over the Nizamiye complex to be run by the Fountain

Educational Trust, a registered SA Non-Profit Trust run by South Africans. “Lafarge South Africa is proud to have been involved in this fascinating project,” comments Lafarge key accounts manager, Mohammed Hajee. “It was not the usual fast track contract but rather an extremely specialised project, in

which we worked closely with the Turkish experts. It reflects the Lafarge brand base- line of Building better cities , which embodies the Group’s ambition to use its innovative products and solutions to help construct more durable and beautiful cities.”

Kaytech engineers were consulted to double check that RockGrid PC would indeed solve the problem. The 100 x 100 kN/m grade of RockGrid PC was considered most appropriate. One of the special features of this product is its polyester, nonwoven fleece component which offers high resistance to installation stresses as well as optimum hydraulic characteristics. Only Rock- Grid PC provides sufficient drainage capacity and, due to its water transmissivity, it facilitates the reduction of pore water pressure and improves shear characteris- tics, thereby increasing stability. Ideal advantages for the problems encountered at Raceway Industrial Park. On completion of the project, 29 000m 2 of RockGrid PC 100/100 had been installed allowing the contractor to rapidly construct the required platformwithout using the expensive conventional method of importing dump rock and exporting spoil material. Thanks to this time- saving, economical Kaytech geogrid, millions of rands were saved on this project. >

Heavy rains and a mix of in-situ material rendered conventional reinforcing methods ineffective.

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