The document discusses the innovative Moladi construction technology, which allows for the rapid and cost-effective building of homes using reusable plastic formwork. It addresses the global housing crisis, particularly in Africa, highlighting the need for affordable housing and the potential of frugal innovation to empower communities and alleviate poverty. The construction process is designed to complete houses quickly, aiming to meet the ever-increasing demand for quality homes.

1. Building Construction Technology
moladi
Innovative Building Construction System
Est - 1986

2. Building Construction Technology
This House Can Be Built In A Day, At An Affordable Price
 Costs related to sustainability of the built
environment.
 The economic impact of sustainable
construction
 A recipe for very quick, modular construction
could help solve housing needs in the
developing world.
 The total area covered by the world’s cities is
set to triple in the next 40 years
 Affordable Housing
 Low Cost Housing
 moladi Construction Technology
 Plastic Formwork
 Speed reduces cost of construction
 introduces materials and methods to
maximize the environmental, social, and
economic performance of buildings.
 Learning from Squatter Settlements
 Cost effective construction techniques

3. Building Construction Technology
Need to build a house quickly? Or build a lot of houses quickly to shelter a
growing population? The moladi plastic mould formwork is filled with cement
and sand, with plumbing, electricity, window, and door frames placed
"between the formwork." The shell of the house is ready overnight.
The main idea: very quick construction. "The question is whether
conventional building methods are able to cope with the ever-increasing
demand for quality homes," says Moladi founder Hennie Botes
"Due to the simplicity of the method, construction techniques and skills can
be transferred in a short time. In this way, the communities benefit from
affordable shelter and entrepreneurs are skilled at the same time, creating
employment," he says.
The plastic formwork, which is reusable, goes up in four hours and is filled
with the mix in about two. The walls are set on reinforced bar foundations
and left to cure for three to seven days. Adding roof, windows, and doing
some painting takes another three days. This construction process
completes a house per day after the initial production start-up has been
implemented. Low cost building methods - www.moladi.com

4. EmpowerPeople to help themselves
• Construction experts are advocating for intensive and extensive
adoption of innovation and technology in a bid to significantly
reduce the cost of materials and building processes.
• low cost building methods
• Cost effective construction techniques
• Social Innovation for the Bottom of the Pyramid
• Social Innovation Is Shifting The BoP Market Segment
• Empowering the poor to help themselves
• Social Innovation for the Bottom of the Pyramid

5. Impact of poverty housing
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.
The impact on children’s development is both immediate
and long-term. Growing up in poor or overcrowded
housing has been found to have a lasting impact on a
child’s health and well-being throughout their life.
Housing at minimum cost meaning lowering the cost of
construction - Use of economies of scale

6. Housing the homeless - Slum dwellers
• Low cost building methods
• The world is experiencing a global housing crisis. About 1.6
billion people globally live in substandard housing and 100
million are homeless, according to the United Nations. If no
serious action is taken, the United Nations reports that the
number of slum dwellers worldwide will increase over the
next 30 years to nearly 2 billion.
• Despite the progress in meeting low cost housing in Africa, UN
agency Habitat, says that the continent requires 4 million
units per year to cover its low cost housing needs.

7. Growth in slum population
 In its recent report, the UN agency notes that the failure of
policies and the formal housing market to cater to the
housing needs of the poor and lower middle-income
households have translated to the growth in slum
populations. The body further blames huge housing deficits
in Africa to poor response of governments to the issue,
ignorance by governments on the housing issue, land
delivery systems, urban planning and poor organization of
construction sectors.
 But with the adoption of new building technologies, it
remains to be seen whether housing in Africa could be
significantly boosted given that the continent’s population is
rapidly increasing.
 Despite the progress in meeting low cost housing in Africa,
UN agency Habitat, says that the continent requires 4 million
units per year to cover its housing needs.

8. Housing construction
Frugal Innovation – Plastic Formwork – empowering people – social development
Frugal innovation or frugal engineering is the process of
reducing the complexity and cost of a good and its production
Frugal innovation - moladi
Frugal Innovation - Housing

9. Frugal Innovation - Do More With Less
• What is frugal innovation?
– Frugal innovation is about lowering the complexity
and cost of producing a product - in a scalable and
sustainable manner.
– Frugal innovation or frugal engineering is the process
of reducing the complexity and cost of a product and
its production.
– In our increasingly resource-constrained world,
consumers are demanding affordable, high-quality
products that are environmentally friendly and socially
inclusive

10. Cost effective construction techniques
• Key values in Innovative building construction
technology - Cost effective construction
techniques
– Affordability
– Simplicity
– Quality
– Sustainability
– Optimization
– Reduce waste
– Increased production

11. Frugal Construction - Housing
• Frugal innovation or frugal
engineering is the process of
reducing the complexity and cost of
a homes and its production
• Frugal innovation or frugal
engineering is the process of
reducing the complexity and cost of
a housing and its production

12. Frugal Innovation – BoP housing market
• Delft University of Technology and the
Erasmus University Rotterdam in the
Netherlands. We study frugal innovation in
relation to economic transformation to find
out where and when frugal innovation is
capable of positively influencing the lives of
people at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP).
• Housing the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP).

13. Building Construction Technology
• Key challenges embodied in affordable
housing shortages
– Lack of resources
– Insufficient funds
– Skills shortage
– Time constraints
– Work flow control
– Waste

14. Low cost building methods
• Housing the “Base of the Pyramid" – Link
• For more information on moladi and its
approach to frugal principals
• moladi - A "TOOL" to empower people to
help themselves Read more

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16. moladi
Building Construction Technology
Est – 1986
www.moladi.co.za