“The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) applauds Nazir Alli for withdrawing his resignation to remain the head of SANRAL,” says SAICE president Dr Martin van Veelen. The withdrawal is in the best interest of SANRAL and would...
Who would have thought that a pile of trash could win you a share of R50 000 cash? But this is exactly what Collect-a-Can’s 2012 CAN Craze competition is making possible. Starting nationally on 01 June 2012, the competition encourages schools or...
Basil Read’s building division has completed the second phase of the construction company’s new headquarters (pictured), with most of the group’s divisions and some subsidiaries taking occupation as of 30 March 2012. In early 2011, Studio mhr...
Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA), strongly opposes the call by Minister Tokyo Sexwale to create a state-owned construction company. Speaking on behalf of their 470 member firms, employing in excess of 22 000 employees, president of CESA,...
S Richardson, Councilfor Geoscience Dolomitic rocks occur in the Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, North West and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa. Dolomite is a soluble rock type that gives rise to sinkholes and dolines if given sufficient time...
SANRAL CEO Nazir Alli, who resigned last month, is to “stay put”, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said today. “There is no search for a new CEO,” Motlanthe said in Cape Town. Speaking in Cape Town at a media briefing on the controversial...
Surveyors have been around since the earliest recorded times and have undertaken small- to large-scale projects, some with the most extreme engineering of its day. SAGI epitomises this most noble profession and it’s constantly evolving dynamics in...
The social and financial condition of our planet is pointing to the need for something new and the time to take responsibility for our own future.While people in this country are struggling to keep their homes, their jobs, pay their power bill, and...
In his City of Tshwane (CoT) 2012 budget speech yesterday, Executive Mayor, Councillor Kgosientso Ramokgopa, announced the proposed tariff increases on waste, electricity, sanitation, water and property rates for the city. The tariff for solid...
Thousands of destitute people living on a Gauteng dump are being left by the provincial government to fend for themselves. This comes as the provincial department of local government and housing are refusing help to the residents on the landfill...
