Friday, August 31, 2012

Alternatively Built Multifamily Development Uses Upcycling as a Hook via Multi-Housing News Online

South Africa is the latest country to embrace the emerging trend of alternative building for multifamily developments. As previously reported on CPE and MHN’s City Pages, San Francisco has seen the development of a smaller, prefabricated apartment building providing quick solutions for multifamily infill projects. Citiq Property Developers has taken another path to alternative development, using shipping containers in the process, while not jeopardizing the overall quality of the building.

The company recently announced the fact that its newly finished apartment block in the South African city of Johannesburg, SixtyOne on Countesses, was completed in record time. The shipping container technology has been used before for portable retail areas in festivals and smaller bars but its practicality for development in general might have been underrated. The original purpose shipping containers have also recommends them durability-wise, and the use of still seaworthy units guarantees that the alloys they are made from will hold on for a great amount of time. This process is known as upcycling, which is essentially the conversion of waste materials or currently useless products into new products of better quality or better environmental value.

Read more...Alternatively Built Multifamily Development Uses Upcycling as a Hook | Multi-Housing News Online

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