Brandvlei Correctional Farm: Hot Water Reticulation System
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Christiaan J. Jurgens
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Symposium: Engineering for Progress, Nature and People, Madrid, Spain, 3-5 September 2014 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Symposium Madrid 2014 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 3222-3229 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| Year: | 2014 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137814814070055 | ||||
| Abstract: |
The Brandvlei correctional farm currently houses approximately 4500 inmates, administrators an wardens. The Facility is unique in that all of its potable water is sourced directly from the natural, free-flowing hot spring from which it gets its name. Previously however, an enormous amount of electrical energy was being wasted by the re-heating of cold water for end-use in the Facility’s calorifiers and geysers. In 2004 it was finally proposed that an independent hot water reticulation system be installed feed the 64°C hot spring water directly into all of the existing correctional facilities. This project is therefore a prime example of how engineering ingenuity can be used to sustainabl bring progress, nature and people together. |
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| Keywords: |
South Africa Brandvlei hot water spring sustainable infrastructure development
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