Category Archives: Success Stories

Building A School

School built with Hydraform interlocking blocks in Grand-Bereby Ivory Coast

Investing in the community that surrounds any significant business operation is nothing more than good sense. Société des Caoutchoucs de Grand-Béréby (SOGB) is engaged in the production of rubber and palm oil in the south-west region of Côte d’Ivoire. The operation is of a significant size, spread out over an area of 34 712ha (16 […]

Tackling A Housing Crisis

Hydraform interlocking block technology addressing government housing crisis

As has happened elsewhere in Africa, the housing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo has assumed epidemic proportions. Hydraform is once again on the front line in the fight against poverty, hunger and joblessness through an association with the volunteer corps of the Confédération Syndicale du Congo (CVC), a trade union confederation, and the […]

Delivering En Masse Green Housing

Large-scale green housing in Tanzania built with Hydraform interlocking blocks

National Housing Corporation (NHC) Tanzania is responsible for affordable quality housing delivery in that country. Since its formation, NHC has embarked on more than 5 000 units of affordable housing projects all over the country. The reference project in Dar es Salaam involved the construction of 201 houses using the Hydraform Building System. Analysis after […]

Resettling A Community

Resettlement housing built with Hydraform interlocking blocks for mining-displaced community

Opencast mining can be hazardous to people living in the vicinity and since the minerals can’t be moved before extraction, the people must be resettled… This is exactly what happened in rural Ghana when the Endeavour Mining Company sought to extract the gold ore located at Nzema. Given the geology of the region, the most […]

Enabling Community Development

Community housing in Ghana built by Savannah Accelerated Development Authority with Hydraform

Hydraform’s relationship with the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority began in early 2012 and sprang from the need for a sustainable housing solution. The Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) is an independent agency for coordinating a comprehensive development agenda for the northern savannah ecological zone in Ghana. SADA’s main objective is to promote sustainable development while […]

A Beehive Of Activity

NGO community development project using Hydraform interlocking block construction

Primarily for reasons of sustainability, the Hydraform Building System has proven very popular with NGOs all over the world One such organisation is the Malawi-based Krizevac, which has been active in the country for a decade or more and focuses on empowering poor and underdeveloped communities to lift themselves out of the mire. A key […]

Giving A Community That Feeling Of Permanence

Permanent community buildings in Rogbere Sierra Leone built with Hydraform blocks

The Rogbere project began small but today includes a junior secondary school along with teachers’ accommodation, a training centre, an orphanage and accommodation for volunteers, and it continues to grow a little more with each passing year The project began back in 2004 when a small Irish NGO, Emmaus, purchased 63 acres of land from […]

Constructing A Community

Mining community infrastructure built with Hydraform interlocking block technology

All businesses, but mining operations in particular, are under pressure to contribute to building up the community around their operations… Tendele Coal Mining operates an anthracite mine about 85km north-east of Richards Bay in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Back in 2007 the company decided, without being coerced into doing so, to make a meaningful contribution to […]

Giba Business Park

Giba Business Park commercial development built with Hydraform interlocking blocks in Durban

Giba Business Park, a unique development set in the Giba Valley just outside Westmead in KwaZulu-Natal, has developed its facilities for a variety of its successful businesses using innovative Hydraformblock making technology. The Hydraform technology has since proved to be the ideal solution for Giba, not only from a cost perspective, but more importantly in […]

Building In A Remote Area

Hydraform building system used for construction in a remote area

A constant challenge when it comes to assisting communities in Africa is remoteness – some villages are simply a long way off the beaten track… A case in point is Gombani Village in Venda, situated in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Set in the mountains close to the Zimbabwe border, the village is so […]

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