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he Benoni-based manufac-
turer has supplied 30 500m
2
of concrete slabs for Madeira
Isles, a rental stock housing project
in Danville, Pretoria. The hollow core
slabs have reduced the construction
time by six months to fast track the
500 unit development.
Madeira Isles residential hous-
ing typologies comprises of 14 four
storey apartment blocks – a total of
40 700m
2
. There are 56 one bedroom,
388 two bedroom and 56 studio
apartments. The units will be due for
completion before mid-year.
The client, ESS, appointed Boutel
Projects as the main contractor to
oversee the operation and manage
the project. Boutel’s experienced
team was renowned as a plastering
and tiling firmbefore becoming firmly
established as a formidable company
capable of rolling out medium sized
commercial construction. Boutel’s
founder, Americo Pimentel and his
management team, chose concrete
slabs for the flooring. “We were
concerned about the speed at which
the project had to be done,” explains
Pimentel. “For us to complete the
project in the specified time period,
we realised that we had to go the
precast route and that was when
we contacted Elematic South Africa
(ESA) to get involved in the project
negotiations.”
He adds that the biggest challenge
the contractors faced on site was
that two other companies needed to
complete their work first, in order for
the precast slabs to work as planned.
“There was brickwork to be done and
the steel structure had to be com-
pleted in order to support the precast
Madeira Isles
Elematic SA’s precast hollow core concrete slabs have
once again proved their worth when it comes to time-
saving and efficiency on a building project.
Cement & Concrete