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Building, thought through.
The ideas, engineering and evidence behind industrialised construction in South Africa — written for the people who have to decide whether it works. Field notes from the factory, explainers on the system, and what manufactured building means for the places it makes.
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Our story: a housing gap, a factory, and one accountable team
The long version of how Precast Africa came to be, in four parts: the challenge we started from, the conviction that answered it, the system that came out of it, and the outcome it is designed to put on the ground.
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Company profile32 pages
Company Profile 2026
Who we are, what we deliver, and how one accountable team takes a building from the mould to handover.
Brochure26 pages
Manufacture & Installation
The module, the moulds and the plant: how a room is cast whole, finished indoors and craned into place.
Brochure38 pages
The Development Models
Residential, commercial and industrial building types, each assembled from one family of cast modules.
The magazine
Issue 01 · October 2026 · Africa edition
Built Environment
Precast Africa's journal on how Africa builds — and how it could build faster, better and to last. Issue 01 starts at the beginning: the mould, the module, the housing gap it is meant to close, and the projects abroad that show the method at scale.
In this issue
- 01From the editors
- 02From mould to module
- 03Africa's housing gap
- 04One module, many homes
- 05Inside the factory
- 06Global PPVC in practice
Renders are artist's impressions. International figures are third-party benchmarks, labelled where used.
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