Friday 26 April 2013

Kampala Goes Green By Using Eco- Friendly Blocks

The interlocking soil/cement stabilized blocks, Go green by saving our environment and reducing green house gases which are healthy hazard, causing global warming and using the new innovated blocks is the answer. They are stronger than traditional burned bricks. The blocks use dry stacked mechanism to interlock thus using no mortar at all while making huge savings on cement, sand, water, time and labor up to 50% on your building cost. The blocks are almost double in size than our traditional burned bricks so they cover large areas and their uniformity and regular shape gives them competitive advantage by using less coat of plastering in your interior walls. The exterior walls can be vanished and you are done! by making huge savings in painting and decorating the walls. With less than 20 million, you can have your dream home. Many of us dream of owning a decent home. Yet many of us continue to wonder how we can pull off that ‘miracle’. How is it possible with ever increasing costs of land and construction materials to build a house of your dreams when you have limited income? Well, the good news is yes you can own that home and more so at a cheaper cost. With less than 20 million shillings you can own a two bed room house with modest interior furnishing thanks to JKM Interlocking bricks manufacturer. According to JKM Interlocking bricks manufacturer, it’s possible to have a two bed room (3-4 meters master bedroom and 3-3 m) house with living room (3-4m), toilet and shower (1.5-2m) and kitchen (2-3m) at just 18 million shillings in less than three weeks. Such a house costs the owner half the amount he/she would have spent using ordinary technology of bricks, cement and sand. How can that be possible, is the question we put to the hitherto. By using the ordinary technology of bricks, sand and cement is not only environmentally destructive but also very expensive and wasteful. Our tested and proven technology of making blocks using cement and soil extracted from the site of construction is both time and resource friendly. While in ordinary construction the site is cleared and the excavated soil ferried away, in this appropriate technology driven system, the very soil extracted to erect building foundation is a vital raw material for making the blocks used in actual construction. The blocks are commonly known as Interlocking Stabilized Soil Blocks. The main features of difference between them and ordinary bricks is that blocks are bigger and interlock-fit into each other well- during construction thus enabling less usage of cement at the same time rendering laying them an easy task. Because the blocks are identical and interlock well, there is no need for re-modification to fit. This enables the builder to do his work quickly at the same time saving resources because there is nothing removed from the blocks. construction using blocks also make both internal and external walls of the structure straight and uniform allowing the builder to economize cement by using same level of thickness while plastering the walls.

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