Established - 1986
WELCOME
Hennie Botes
Affordable Housing
Innovation in Construction
Architecture
Durability – a building should stand
up robustly and remain in good
condition.
Utility – it should be suitable for the
purposes for which it is used.
Beauty – it should be aesthetically
pleasing.
Moladi the modelm of housing
Bridging the Great Divide
Traditional vs. Innovative Construction Techniques
The primary market
The mass market
Top of the Pyramid
Base of the Pyramid
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Talk does not cook rice
CHINESE PROVERB
Talk does not cook rice
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Action changes things
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Poverty
unemployment
REDUCE INEQUALITY
The Fourth Industrial Revolution - Klaus Schwab
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Jobs Food shelter
Maslow’ hierarchy of needs
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BASIC NEEDS – JOB FOOD SHELTER
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UNEMPLOYMENT
THE PROBLEM
squatters
Shacks
HOUSING BACKLOG
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THE PROBLEM
Fourth Industrial revolution
We need to shape a future
that works for all of us by
putting people first
and empowering them.
#empowerPEOPLE
EMPOWERING PEOPLE
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Change the way we do
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DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY
TRANSPORT
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COMMUNICATION
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WHY NOT?
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CREATIVE DESTRUCTION
“Creative destruction describes the process of industrial
mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic
structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one,
incessantly creating a new one.”
- Joseph Schumpeter -
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CONSTRUCTION
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3500 YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT
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2017 AD1458 BC
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INCREASED PRODUCTION
Antiquated brick and brick laying method
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THE BOTTLE NECK
SKILLED LABOUR
Better way of building houses
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THE ELECTRIC LIGHT DID
NOT COME FROM CONTINUOUS
IMPROVEMENT OF CANDLES
- OREN HARARI -
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DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION
Housing delivery
DEMAND
SUPPLY
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HOUSING DELIVERY
UN agency Habitat,
4 million units per year to cover
its low cost housing needs.
GREEN
Einstein solve problems
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Brick construction
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STATUS QUO
WASTESLOW QUALITYEXPENSIVE
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TODAY’S JOB – YESTERDAY’S TOOLS
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WHY?
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INNOVATIVE BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES
Standard Brick House
32nd out of 40 systemsmoladi
GREEN?
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Brick making pollution – not green – CO2 emissions
GREEN?
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800 million ton CO² gasses per year - More than all the airlines in the world combined
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SOLUTION THINKING
New construction technology
Creative destruction
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Moladi plastic formwork Construction System Invented by Hennie Botes
CREATIVE DESTRUCTION
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THE SOLUTION
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LOCAL MATERIALS
ERECT AND FILL THE FORMWORK
Plastic shutteringPlastic formwork
Reusable plastic formwork
formwork
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LOCAL UNSKILLED LABOUR
NEXT DAY - REMOVE FORMWORK
RE-USABLE
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1 HOUSE - 1 MOULD - 1 DAY
1OO HOUSES - 100 MOULDS - 1 DAY
A TOOL TO EMPOWER PEOPLE
SPEED REDUCES COST
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Mass housing construction method
Mass housing construction system
FIRST SHOW HOUSE CAST IN 1987
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#plasticshutter
#plasticshuttering
#plasticformwork
Moladi plastic shuttering sysytem
Cast insitu housing construction
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NHBRC
Moladi double storey
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COURTHOUSE PROJECT - TANZANIA
FUTURE OF CONSTRUCTION
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#lowcosthousing
Housing the base of the pyramid
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FOR
RENT
TINY HOUSE
R25,000
Social Innovation for the Bottom of the Pyramid
GREEN 
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Poverty housing affects people’s health and well-being, their
job prospects and ability to make a living. It locks people into a
cycle of poverty.
It also holds children back from fulfilling their potential:
children living in bad housing are more likely to suffer from
serious health problems, to have learning difficulties and miss
school and to face unemployment and poverty later in life.
WHY?
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HOW?
How to bring decent low cost housing
to poor communities?
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14% OF SOUTH AFRICANS CANNOT AFFORD TO BUY FOOD
2.3 MILLION HOUSING BACKLOG
9 MILLION UNEMPLOYED
CREATE ENTREPRENEURS THAT PRODUCE
CREATING JOBS - PRODUCING FOOD - PRODUCING SHELTER
PRODUCING TAXES - CIRCULAR ECONOMY
BACK TO BASICS
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FRUGAL INNOVATION
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Do MORE with LESS
Frugal innovation or frugal engineering is the
process of reducing the complexity and cost of a
product and its production
EMBODIED ENERGY – MJ/kg
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Life Cycle Costs – Production Cost – MJ/kg
COST PER KILOGRAM – R/kg
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Construction Material Costs
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FOOD & SHELTER FOOD & FORD
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WHAT THE MARKET PRODUCES WHAT THE MARKET NEEDS
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HOUSING
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TINY HOUSE
FOR
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GOAL: TO CREATE INNOVATIVE, SUSTAINABLE, EFFECTIVE,
AND SCALABLE SOLUTIONS TO SOCIAL PROBLEMS.
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Urban and Rural Economies
Villages and Cities are interdependent and symbiotic
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NEW TECHNOLOGY – OUTDATED PROCESS
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NEW TECHNOLOGY – NEW PROCESS
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THANKYOU
www.moladi.co.za
FIGHT POVERTY, UNEMPLOYMENT AND
CRIME THROUGH HOUSING

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