This morning I decided to visit the site for the new Cultural Village at Thaba Bosiu.It is a much larger project than ours, but it’s also using thatch so I wanted to see how they were faring. Like us they have also run out of thatch, but with a team of 25 thatchers they are able to make up for any delays as soon as they have more. One of the small structure is completed in 3days and the larger ones in a period of up to 10days! Oh who I wish it was the same on our site.
What I do not wish, and I have to say was really surprised to see, where the kind of lack of attention to both detail and construction methods that I saw here. In the large structure I saw spans/openings of up to 2m without a lintel (some of them were already giving in). The depth and thickness of the foundations is also something that I would be concerned if I was involved with that project. But the worst problem of all is the location of some of the chalets, some are only 2m away from a 20m high land slide!
Is it possible that no one knows how to properly site a building?
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