Building bricks - LEGO posted 13 July 2009 Copyright RickOShay
April 2017 Rephab and LEGO annouced today that their new product 'HABO' will be tested on the Cape Flats in Cape Town South Africa. The new low cost rapid housing development will make use of 'HOBITS' - intelligent plastic compound bricks that allow the creation of a simple environmentally integrated house to be constructed within a few hours. The twice life scale bricks are factoiy programmed for heat and light absorption and venting. They create and store electrical charge during the day sufficient to heat 150L of water and run 10 x 20W light bulbs for 10 hours on a single daylight charge. Minister for environmental housing Dr. Trevor Naygash stated that he saw this as the first stage of a wide scale deployment in Africa once initial testing had been completed in the Western Cape. The Cape Flats had been selected for the first test phase due to the wind and light conditions.