Status: Inactive
Company: kwena ya sebeletrading enterprise cc
Tel: (031) 508 1520
Email: admin@switchboard.co.za
Address: Vertical Building Systems (Pty) Ltd
Approved Extract
The Vertibar Building System consists of:
- reinforced precast concrete external and internal wall panels with a polystyrene void former. The sides of the panels have tongue and groove rebates. Different combinations of rebates provide for various panel configurations (eg corners and T-junctions);
- a mesh-reinforced, cast in situ concrete ring-beam, cast over all external and internal walls;
- a reinforced, cast in situ concrete ringbeam, cast over all external and internal walls
- windows of reinforced, precast concrete sub-frames with steel window frames. The cast in situ ringbeam forms a lintel over the window;
- door frames of reinforced, precast concrete posts; the cast in situ ringbeam which has the same profile as the posts, forms a lintel over the door;
- conventional foundations which are always designed by a professional engineer to suit ground conditions;
- a first floor slab constructed from precast concrete planks supported on the cast in situ concrete ring-beam and designed by a professional engineer;
- conventional roof construction and cladding;
- cross-bracing trusses in the plane of the ceiling.
The certificate covers the use of the building system in all areas of Southern Africa for the erection of single and double storey buildings of the following types:
- detached houses (H4)
- semi-detached houses (H3) and related outbuildings
- non-residential school buildings (A3)
- institutional buildings (E3)
- hostels (H2)
- offices (G1)
