Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

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Publish Date 27/11/2019
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Lafarge Holcim Expands Affordable Housing Solutions in Africa

LafargeHolcim is the global leader in building materials and solutions. We are active in four business segments: Cement, Aggregates, Ready-Mix Concrete and Solutions & Products.

LafargeHolcim is expanding its obligation to give low-carbon and reasonable lodging arrangements in Africa by adding further creation limits with regards to its Durabric soil-balanced out blocks. As a feature of its 14Trees joint endeavor with centers for disease control, the UK’s improvement finance establishment, the new plant situated in Malawi will industrialize LafargeHolcim’s Durabric arrangement, the principal soil-balanced out a block that is sold on a mass scale in sub-Saharan Africa. 14Trees is currently additionally being presented in other African business sectors including Kenya and the Ivory Coast.

Miljan Gutovic, Region Head Middle East Africa: “Today, under 10% of the populace in Africa can bear the cost of the least expensive recently assembled house. Durabric is one genuine illustration of endeavors to take feasible answers for scale. Since 2016 14Trees has worked with the development area in Malawi, probably the least fortunate country in Africa, to settle on Durabric the innovation of decision in the country. Inside the initial three years of tasks, 2 million blocks have been sold saving more than 4,000 trees and keeping away from more than 15,000 tons of CO2 emissions.

These consumed dirt blocks, which stay the most utilized structure material in Malawi and a few different nations, include weighty utilization of kindling because of the need to fire the mud that is utilized to make the blocks.

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