Browsing by Subject "affordable fencing"

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    Low cost fencing for a pre-school
    (2013-10) UCT Knowledge Co-op
    This is an engineering study requested by the New World Foundation. A team from Engineers without Borders, a student agency at UCT, looked at designing and building a low cost fence for a playground at their pre-school in Lavender Hill. The objective was to provide affordable fencing that would overcome the challenges of theft that the community faces. The conditions for the material was that it should not have fuel usage value such as wood, no scrap material value and it should not block visibility.
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    Low cost fencing project 2013 Funding Proposal / Report, Engineers without Borders (EWB) – University of Cape Town
    (2014) Makhado, Mashudu; Manyuha, Mufarisi; Alex, Abhilash; Ma-Kiese, Stephane Masamba; Naidoo Damian; Bessinger, Alexa; Muridili, Mashudu
    This proposal outlines a request for project funding for the EWB UCT's low cost fencing project. The aim was to design and build a low cost fence for a playground at a pre-school in a Cape Town community based in a low income area. Facing the challenges of material theft in the area one of the objectives was to provide an alternative to the wood fencing that is currently being used such that this new design does not lure thieves. Moreover, the aim is to provide a safe and reliable design for fencing the playground that is durable and comes at a low cost. Plastic netting (supported with concrete poles) was suggested as potential replacement for the traditional wooden fence.