With so many building and developments occurring in and around Benoni and every other city in the world, I cannot keep asking myself are we building something to last for a few years or a lifetime?
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My late father was a builder of schools across southern Africa.
I do believe that he and the master craftsmen who built structures that served humanity during his time were key role players in setting out the surveying and mapping standards of craftsmanship in the actual building processes.
Technically speaking, I think that we should slow down the building processes, especially in endangered wetland areas.
This way of thinking might create more sustainable jobs over longer periods of time.
Emphasis is to be placed on quality, not quantity.
Progress is awesome, but rapid unsustainable development is bad for business.
Let’s rather get the foundations 100 per cent correct before building too quickly.
Maybe this will reduce rising damp and cracks forming in the houses across the suburbs.
From a conservation angle, perhaps the birds are trying to tell us something about the way in which we are building?
As a human race – along with the fact that we are developing and evolving – supposedly all the time, maybe give a thought that we actually all just end up becoming fossil fuel.
It is amazing to see how the pyramids are still standing after who knows how long.
The bottom line is that we should concentrate on building foundations for our lives.
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