SUMMERCON, one of Gauteng’s biggest and busiest home-building companies, has appointed the Echo Group as “exclusive supplier” of hollow-core concrete floor slabs for its sectional-title forward development programmes.

One of South Africa’s most important development imperatives is to answer the distress calls of hundreds of thousands of South Africans for a decent roof over their heads.  In the creation of new high-density housing communities, the Echo Group, the country’s largest manufacturer of hollow-core concrete flooring slabs, is playing a pivotal role.

ONE of South Africa’s largest steel manufacturers has ringed its Wadeville raw scrap processing plant with a formidable security wall made from toughened Echo prestressed hollow-core concrete panels – and in the process completely eliminated costly losses from scrap theft.

 


THE Echo Group, South Africa’s largest manufacturer of hollow-core concrete floor slabs, has acquired ownership control of the Cape manufacturer Topfloor,  giving Echo a national footprint in the highly competitive precast and prestressed floor industry.

Echo already has two manufacturing plants in Gauteng and one in Kwa-Zulu Natal.

A back-to-the-drawing-board design using Echo hollow-core prestressed concrete flooring slabs has brought a rain-delayed R9-million construction project in Johannesburg back on schedule – and in the process cut R300 000 off the original budgeted cost.

Heavy rains which turned the building site into a mud-bath had threatened to seriously delay completion of major additions to St Peter’s Preparatory School in Paulshof.