A community based organisation, Bridge for Rural Urban Development (BRUD), is turning around the lives of slum-dwellers in Nairobi in a big way. The CBO based in Mukuru slums aids the locals to make ...

As the government pushes to make affordable housing a reality, a plan introduced 16 years ago to bring down the cost of construction lies neglected. The Government in 2003 introduced the interlocking ...

BUILDING LOCAL HOMES Hydraform won a contract to supply and build a turnkey housing project for a municipality in the Eastern Cape, providing homes for 27 families Brick- and block-making machinery ...

Operation of the machine A hydraform machine has capacity to produce one block per nine to 14 seconds or 2,200 hydraform blocks per day, and consumes 13 litres of diesel to perform the work. A ...

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The Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) is in the news again following the expenditure of close to GHC5 million on block making machines. The Hydraform Interlocking block making machines ...

"A house that could be built in 3 months ,can now be built with half that time and be ready within 1 1/2 months." "Interlocking blocks are made from soil excavated used to make blocks which are ...