Several residents from Orange Farm in south Gauteng have barricaded sections of the Golden Highway during a service delivery protest today, police said. “The protesters are using rocks and tyres. The protest started at around 01h00, and it is still...
The WRC’s latest water history offering has just been published. The new book, In the Footsteps of Giants – Exploring the History of South Africa’s large dams, is now available following four years of painstaking research. The glossy, full...
“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...
