Inferences that delaying the implementation of e-tolling will cause harm by reducing funding to social programmes is “emotional blackmail”, says the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (OUTA). It rejects media reports of this idea and says the...
Building confidence among building contractors, manufacturers of building materials and quantity surveyors in South Africa has increased marginally. The immediate outlook, however, is that the local construction industry will continue to face...
In the realm of pressure management, the company has implemented the i20 system; the world’s most advanced solution. Municipalities, utilities and government organisations in South Africa have saved 82.9 Mℓ/d of potable water worth R100million a...
Contaminated water and increases of deadly substances in drinking water are increasingly becoming the silent assassin of people in South Africa, especially the marginalised in rural areas. Contaminated water already claimed victims. In 2008 the...
In this funny and insightful talk, builder Dan Phillips tours us through a dozen homes he has built in Texas, USA, using recycled and reclaimed materials in wildly creative ways. Brilliant, low-tech design details will refresh your own creative...
Senegal’s capital city Dakar sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean on a peninsula. It’s at least a thousand miles to the Sahara desert yet the air today is so thick with sand that the tops of buildings disappear in a sandy haze. It’s...
Subsurface pipeline construction and rehabilitation company Trenchless Technologies’ involvement in the replacement of 414 metres of sewer pipeline at the Isithebe Industrial Estate in the iLembe District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal saw...
Plastics|SA, together with training partners Whisper Boat Building Academy (WBBA) and the Marine Industry Association of South Africa, are inviting deaf students to apply for merSETA funded bursaries that will allow them to train in the art of...
For 23 years, Eskom has been recognising and rewarding excellence in energy efficiency with their prestigious eta Awards. These awards recognise exceptional effort in the more efficient use of energy by businesses, industry and even individuals,...
Significant shifts in the world’s economic balance of power pose sustainability challenges for the developed nations following the recent Rio+ 20 United Nation Conference on sustainable development, according to an analysis carried out by...
