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MINING
Housing
Accommodation on the Northern Cape
The houses comply with ‘green’ standards and feature solar water heating systems, to features such as carports and washing lines
Raubex Group showcases turnkey solutions at 476-unit housing project for Kumba Iron Ore’s Sishen Mine
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perating across Africa, heavy construction company Raubex Raubex Housing achieved a rate of 1.7 houses a day with six trucks has developed its business, since its formation in 1974, from delivering 60,000 bricks a day. small-scale structural work on public assets such as bridges to The single greatest complication during this undertaking was a sixlarger-scale infrastructure development. Most recently, the Raubex kilometre long, 700mm high-density polyethylene dewatering Group has showcased its turnkey solutions capability at a 476-unit pipeline that bisected the site, which required installation of a pump housing project for Kumba Iron Ore at its Sishen Mine in Kathu, on station and associated concrete works. South Africa’s Northern Cape. “The success of the housing project About 1,500 workers were on site at the peak of the undertaken for Anglo American at Kumba holds project, along with 12 excavators and ten TLBs huge potential for Raubex in the mining services sector,” said Barend Badenhorst, managing director of Raubex Housing. The project forms part of Kumba Iron Ore’s commitment to convert all mine hostels by the end of this year in line with the South African Mining Charter. It is being undertaken by the Raubex Matlapeng Joint Venture. Contractual conditions Construction began in October 2013 and has been managed across four phases. Raubex Housing built the top structures, L&R Civil was responsible for the 13km of water and sewer reticulation. Raubex KZN built the eightkilometre road network.
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