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Core-and-veneer, brick and rubble, wall and rubble, ashlar and rubble, and emplekton all refer to a building technique where two parallel walls are constructed and the core between them is filled with rubble or other infill, creating one thick wall. [1] Originally, and in later poorly constructed walls, the rubble was not consolidated.
The main house of the Groot Constantia vineyard near Cape Town, South Africa.. Cape Dutch architecture is an architectural style primarily found in the Western Cape of South Africa, though modern adaptations have been constructed in regions such as Western Australia and New Zealand, typically on wine estates.
Ponte City [1] is a skyscraper in the Berea district of Johannesburg, South Africa, just next to Hillbrow.It was built in 1975 to a height of 173 m (567.6 ft), and was the tallest residential skyscraper in Africa for 48 years, until overtaken in 2023 by Building D01, in Egypt's New Administrative Capital.
The site consists of four main "Ohingni" (i.e. settlements) surrounded by walls with low entrances, the walls were built by stacking irregularly-shaped stones without the use of any mortar, the result being an interlocked wall with immense stability similar to walls of Great Zimbabwe 3600 kilometers to the south of the settlement.
The design of the dolos is usually credited to the South African Eric Mowbray Merrifield, one-time East London Harbour Engineer (from 1961–1976). [1]: 10 Eric Merrifield lead a team which included Piet Grobbelaar and Jack Badham-Thornhill who collaborated for many years perfecting the design. These blocks were designed to 22 tonne in later years.
Design loads – Fire wall must withstand a minimum 5 lb/sq ft (24 kg/m 2), and additional seismic loads. [7] Substation transformer firewalls are typically free-standing modular walls custom designed and engineered to meet application needs. Building fire walls typically extend through the roof and
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Dr. John Anderton of South Africa has tested a triple channel bag version that reduces the slumping problems inherent in non-cohesive fill material like sand, [10] and pioneered work in a narrow wall contained sand system which he calls E-khaya. Fernando Pacheco of Brazil pioneered the use of lighter HDPE mesh tubing for simpler hyperadobe ...