Urban Renewal
5/2020 – Taking a school sports field to new heights
Fill slope stabilisation with Terraforce In June 2019, St Cyprian’s school in Oranjezicht, Cape Town, ZA, received the great news that they had the go ahead to upgrade the Upper Orange field into an international standard hockey field.
VIEW9/2019 – Affordable seating for Green ICT school, Botha Halte
School seating with the 4×4 Step blocks At the start of 2017 construction of a new Information and Communications Technology (ICT) school building began at Botha Halte Primary, off the R43 near Botha Wine Cellar in Worcester, South Africa.
VIEW1/2013 – Wasting no space with Terraforce
SA’s first ‘green-fields’ refuse transfer station wastes no space with Terraforce Following a study conducted by USA Consultants, Wright-Pearce (1999), it was recommended that the City develop a single regional waste disposal (landfill) facility, and as the existing landfills reach their capacity, they would be replaced by satellite refuse transfer stations, with waste being compacted…
VIEW6/2012 – Securing an old retaining wall
When one retaining wall holds up the other: Securing an old retaining wall Installer: Decorton Retaining System When Lance Dickson of Lance Dickson Builders noticed that the old retaining wall surrounding his church in Loevenstein, Bellville was becoming unstable, he requested a quote from Decorton Retaining, a recommended retaining wall installer, for a Terraforce retaining…
VIEW12/2012 – Wastewater facility gets facelift
Cut slope retaining at Wastewater Treatment Works Installer: Decorton Retaining System In 2009, The City of Cape Town initiated a project to rehabilitate three anaerobic digesters by constructing a regional sludge handling facility at the Cape Flats Wastewater Treatment Works. A segmental block retaining wall system was considered most suitable for this project, as insitu…
VIEW1/2011 – Green gateway to Doha Qatar
Local retaining block livens up highway interchanges Consultant: Namwall cc In 2005, Terraforce landed their first major contract in Dubai, using the L16 block to curb water erosion on the fronds of Palm Jumeirah, one the largest artificial islands in the world. Later that year, Terraforce appointed Consent L.L.C. as exclusive producers of Terraforce blocks…
VIEW13/2012 – Great high school seating upgrade for a new hockey field
User-friendly seating upgrade Mid 2010, Westerford High School approached Strata Civils with a proposal of creating an Astro Turf Hockey Pitch with seating, retaining walls between the road and hockey pitch and around the seating and tennis court at the Imhoff sports ground in Newlands, Cape Town, Western Cape.
VIEW2/2012 – Making room for Shoprite Checkers
Design and supply retaining wall from Terraforce Shoprite Checkers is Africa’s largest food retailer with more than 750 corporate and 250 franchised outlets in 18 countries throughout Africa, South-East Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands.
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