Construction World September 2018

WOOD CONSTRUCTION

Structures larger than 220 m 2 Silver award: Logo Homes for House McPherson

Another project built on a steep plot in Simonstown, the house was to be built as a guest house with off-street parking for a new business venture. The site drops away swiftly from the road and the design and construction had to accommodate for this with extensive excavations and retaining walls. The project, which took 8 months to complete, consists of a two-bedroom, two-bath- room flat on the first-floor level as well as guest house dining room and kitchen. Four large bedrooms, each with a luxury en- suite bathroom, and two of the bedrooms with small kitchenette are downstairs.

Silver award: Elegant Roofing for Chere Botha School The unique design of the exposed timber roof trusses for the Chere Botha School adds a richness to the overall aesthetic and plenty of room for natural light to enter this educational building. Architect Heinrich Wolff, Wolff Architects Engineer Mattie Oosthuizen

Roofing

Gold awa rd: Bosazza Roofing for House Rumble House Rumble’s brief was to erect and install 1 079 m 2 of roof- ing on the main house and summer kitchen of this residential property, including three feature areas with exposed trusses, installation of internal ceilings, veranda and eave ceilings, custom steel and timber balustrades and posts as well as the construction of two pergolas. The brief required marrying the three contrasting aesthetic elements of the home design, being mortar, timber and steel, with a strong focus on elegance, sym-

Bronze award: LCP Roofing for House Niewoudt The brief was to build trusses with very large, heavy, rough sawn timber beams, design a raised tie-beam and install a timber slatted ceiling on top of the trusses. It took 14 men to carry the handcrafted trusses, which had to be handled with special care, and the pine slatted ceiling was carefully nailed from top to bottom as the tiling was completed. The room is now a magical space with the décor and roofing in complementary interplay. Timber roof truss designer Andri Pretorius Engineer Errol Hobden

metry and fine quality finishes. Architect Lara Wilson McDade

Fabricator Inyathi Truss Engineer Richard Bailey

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