The cost of servicing Gauteng with water is becoming more and more costly but the province has put efficient water usage as a priority goal. At a water indaba in Johannesburg, Nirali Shah, risk manager for Deloitte and Touche highlighted concerns...
Caption: 2012 JD Roberts Award winner, Dr Kevin Wall (middle), at the award ceremony with Dr Conelius Ruiters, unit head of CSIR Built Environment (left) and Murray & Roberts CEO, Mr Henry Laas (right). In the spirit of recognising talent and...
Photo: CESA President, Naren Bhojoram Amid the furor and the fact that this matter is sub judice, Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) is in support of tolling South Africa’s national freeways and in particular we support the principle of...
Government has announced that the controversial e-tolls system will be going ahead. The system has received massive public resistance and now groups say government’s 30-day consultation process is merely window dressing for decisions that...
New tariff hikes are on the cards as Cabinet has named Eskom as the owner and operator of planned nuclear power stations. Cabinet has named state power utility Eskom, the owner and operator of the six nuclear power stations, that state plans to...
Aveng Group chairman Angus Band has told shareholders the Johannesburg-listed infrastructure firm continues to experience “adverse” market conditions, notably in the construction and steel sectors. He says the group’s potential order...
Gauteng’s suspended electronic tolling system is readying to launch, with 1300 people working across a range of operations including in a violations processing centre, an accounts management facility and a road-side system. The South African...
South Africa is way ahead of the US when it comes to water policies and preserving water but lacks the skills to implement these policies. This was the view of some of the foremost local and international experts on water sustainability at a water...
Caption: Aveng chairman Angus Band About 100 000 jobs had been lost in the civil construction industry in South Africa since its peak in 2008, Aveng said yesterday. It stressed that the medium-term outlook for the construction sector would be...
While the financial crisis deepens in other parts of the world, the African growth story has just begun, but it’s not clear what role SA will play. The narrative on South Africa has been souring rapidly and when The Economist displayed the...
