The new Meulwater Water Treatment Works is situated in the Paarl Mountain Nature Reserve overlooking the Paarl valley. The Drakenstein Municipality required a system that would not only perform its primary task of treating  water, but would also be...
A future beyond traffic gridlock: Bill Ford is a car guy – his great-grandfather was Henry Ford and he grew up inside the massive Ford Motor Company. So when he worries about cars’ impact on the environment and about our growing global gridlock...
Highview Power Storage and Basil Read Energy (BRE) have announced a strategic partnership agreement for the commercial deployment of Highview’s proprietary energy storage technology in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. The agreement with BRE...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) wants SADC countries to put five percent of their monetary reserve towards the establishment of an infrastructure bond that would help speed up infrastructure development in rail, water, ports and energy. The...
Eskom CEO Brian Dames said until the building of South Africa’s four additional power stations are complete, the country’s electricity supply will continue to be under pressure. Speaking at a business breakfast in Pretoria last Friday,...
Sanral’s choosing e-tolling as a method of funding had caused it more damage than the court order that halted the system, the Constitutional Court heard last Wednesday. Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) lawyer Alistair Franklin said...
South Africa’s public-private partnership (PPP) model for renewable energy is showing the potential of attracting R100 billion in investments, said David Humphrey, the global head of power and infrastructure at Standard Bank. Humphrey said the way...
Consulting engineers GIBB is one of the member companies in the 2 037 consortium for the implementation of Gauteng’s 25-year Integrated Transport Master Plan, spearheaded by the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport. The Integrated Transport...
Andrew Brown was appointed winner in the Mentor of the Year category at the annual CESA Aon Engineering Excellence Awards. Andrew is a principal of Golder Associates and director of Golder Associates Africa. He is also the lead of Golder’s...
Q. In the local water industry we have produced many unique solutions to meet rural and urban water delivery challenges. As a company, what are some of the challenges you have faced and the solutions you have found in response to these challenges?...
