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“The vision of a multifunctional team at LCP Roofing has become a reality,” says Andri Pretorius, Managing and Operational Director of LCP Roofing, a Pretoria East-based ITC-SA ‘A’-graded fabricator and erector of timber roof trusses. “With the vision firmly entrenched in our minds, all we needed was to put our clearly defined plan into action and in June 2013 our first multifunctional carpenter and sheeting team sprang into action. I knew it was going to work,” says Pretorius, “but little did I realise just how well.” “The South African construction landscape is largely plagued by poorly trained and inefficient sub-contracting teams and unless these teams are trained and mentored by the very contractors that utilise their services on a daily basis, their true potential will never be realised,” adds Lyndsay Cotton, General Manager of the company. “Unfortunately, it is the client who suffers the consequences of inferior quality of work delivered and we have made it our mission to train and mentor our emerging contractors, something that has been a success as attested to by the growth in skills achieved by these sole proprietor business units.” Cotton adds that the company also needed to grow a skill set from within, so as to achieve the vision of a quality driven product and of service excellence that the industry has come to expect from LCP Roofing. “I have received more calls complimenting us on our competence and the quality of our work in the last three months since our in-house teams commenced operations, than in the last three years,” says Pretorius. “Now that gives one a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.” LCP Roofing (Pty) Ltd. Leaders in Roof Truss Technology TRusses A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power. - Brian Tracy SEPTEMbER 2013 From left to right: Jannie Pretorius, Maintenance Foreman,Thabo Tjale, Carpenter Foreman and Wilhelm Kotze, Site Manager.
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“The vision of a multifunctional team at LCP Roofing has become a reality,” says Andri Pretorius, Managing and Operational Director of LCP Roofing, a Pretoria East-based ITC-SA ‘A’-graded fabricator and erector of timber roof trusses. “With the vision firmly entrenched in our minds, all we needed was to put our clearly defined plan into action and in June 2013 our first multifunctional carpenter and sheeting team sprang into action. I knew it was going to work,” says Pretorius, “but little did I realise just how well.”
“The South African construction landscape is largely plagued by poorly trained and inefficient sub-contracting teams and unless these teams are trained and mentored by the very contractors that utilise their services on a daily basis, their true potential will never be realised,” adds Lyndsay Cotton, General Manager of the company. “Unfortunately, it is the client who suffers the consequences of inferior quality of work delivered and we have made it our mission to train and mentor our emerging contractors, something that has been a success as attested to by the growth in skills achieved by these sole proprietor business units.” Cotton adds that the company also needed to grow a skill set from within, so as to achieve the vision of a quality driven product and of service excellence that the industry has come to expect from LCP Roofing.
“I have received more calls complimenting us on our competence and the quality of our work in the last three months since our in-house teams commenced operations, than in the last three years,” says Pretorius. “Now that gives one a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.”
LCP Roofing (Pty) Ltd.Leaders in Roof Truss Technology
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A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power. - Brian Tracy
SEPTEMbER 2013
From left to right: Jannie Pretorius, Maintenance Foreman, Thabo Tjale, Carpenter Foreman and Wilhelm Kotze, Site Manager.
The RighT TooLs foR The job
Empowering an in-house team, means facilitating and enhancing their skill set from all perspectives. LCP Roofing has invested in a Mercedes Sprinter panel van, as well as a Sprinter 16-seater bus to transport their erectors and sheeters to site and back safely, efficiently, and professionally, with a fully outfitted mobile workshop fitted onto a custom-built trailer. Commenting on this investment, Pretorius says, “If we were going to do it, we were going to do it the right way. If we are to expect top class workmanship from our staff, it is imperative that we kit them out to do the best job possible.”
Another part of the carefully laid out expansion plan was to reduce their dependence on inefficient generators which guzzle fuel and belch smoke. A generator running all day could easily use R2 000’s worth of fuel in a month, not to mention the noise generated. So, whilst the LCP Roofing team still uses generators to power heavy duty equipment, they have gone ‘cordless.’
“Included in our ‘arsenal’ is the very versatile and excellent range of bosch 18V cordless tools, which includes four drills, two circular saws, a jigsaw, a reciprocating saw and an angle grinder. Although we are armed with 10 batteries, the carpentry team seldom uses more than 4 batteries during a full day’s work,” says LCP Roofing Site Manager, Wilhelm Kotze, who ensures that the teams are supervised and efficiently managed, adding, “These batteries are then charged overnight back at the factory. Now that we have proved the reliability and versatility of the cordless system, we are investigating installing solar panels to charge the batteries.”
“LCP Roofing metal sheeters have also been well equipped and we avoid the use of angle grinders unless absolutely necessary,” says Kotze. “Most sheeting suppliers strongly discourage the use of grinders as the resultant damage to sheeting voids their product warranties. We employ the use of the Makita 4131 metal cutter and after much research, we have imported mechanical snips (also cordless and powered by Makita) from Australia, which have proved invaluable in all the scribing required on a sheeted roof. In competent hands these snips are almost four times faster than an angle grinder and leave a clean and completely burr-free cut.”
ACCRediTATion
In keeping with the requirements of the ITC-SA, LCP Roofing teams were independently audited in July 2013 as part of the annual erector audit requirements and the company’s ITC-SA ‘A’-graded Erector status was confirmed.
There are presently four erector categories and only erectors in category ‘A’ (high risk) may erect roof structures for public buildings, laminated timber structures, spans larger than 10m, scissor trusses greater than 5m, attics, dormers, piggyback trusses, complex industrial and commercial buildings and complex hip systems. With this accreditation, LCP Roofing offers their clients confidence that their structures are erected in a competent and professional manner and, in keeping with the rules of our now professional body, the ITC-SA.
sAfeTy
The factory and site team representatives have undergone first-aid training and the company currently has six trained individuals across various levels in the company. All production and site staff are issued with all the required safety equipment which includes footwear, headgear, eye and ear protection where necessary, overalls, reflective jackets and harnesses. On the smaller residential projects, safety is managed in-house and larger commercial sites are supervised by appointed external safety inspectors and auditors.
insPiRed by TeChnoLogy, dRiven by quALiTy
All timber structures are checked by independent, competent roof inspectors to ensure that the structures are erected according to the design intent. Aside from these legally required inspections, LCP Roofing employs an internal quality policy where all timber structures, tiled roofs and sheeted roofs are checked according to internal quality guidelines and these checks include various aspects to ensure aesthetic acceptability, water-tightness and client acceptance post-roof construction phase.
foR moRe infoRmATion, ConTACT:
(t) 012 811 0452 or 0861 LCPROOF (527 7663)(f) 086 557 1913(e) [email protected](w) www.lcproofing.co.za
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LCP Roofing has invested in a Mercedes Sprinter panel van, as well as a Sprinter 16-seater bus to transport their erectors and sheeters to site and back safely.
