Today, about 2.2 billion people lack access to safely managed drinking water services and 3.6 billion people lack safely managed sanitation services. The latest World Water Development Report (WWDR) tackle groundwater that has remained under the...
Sanitation systems where the sewer does not go, DEWATS are the sweet spot between waterless on-site sanitation and conventional sewers with centralised wastewater treatment. Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Solution What is DEWATS?...
The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) hosted its annual awards ceremony on Thursday, 1 September, celebrating individuals and organisations, as well as its members, who have demonstrated resilience and promoted sustainability...
The SABS warns that some Information Technology (IT) standards are at risk because of inadequate industry participation in the SABS Technical Committees The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) has sounded the alarm that some information...
The South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA) is calling on players in the wind sector to work together to deliver more for South Africa through the just energy transition. Under the rallying call of ’Wind Power Spearheading the Energy...
Million Plus, a consumer recycling campaign led by Polyco PRO NPC, is aiming to mobilise more than one million South Africans to commit to recycling their plastic packaging to keep it out of the environment and out of landfill, and instead put it...
With South Africa celebrating Arbor Month in September, it is a good time to appreciate the role that all trees play in greening our cities, as a food source, in providing timber for construction, as fuel and, of course, as paper, packaging, and...
Despite a prolonged period of declining value due to Covid disruption and delays, the South African construction industry looks set for a reversal of fortune in 2022, with forecasts predicting a 9.1% real-term expansion. In the 2022 Construction...
Carbon emissions from construction sites are a major contributor to global warming, largely owing to the industry’s dependency on fossil fuels. The International Energy Agency’s 2019 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction reveals that...
President Cyril Ramaphosa gave a keynote address at the two-day Human Rights Commission National Conference on Local Government Accountability, Service Delivery and Human Rights. The purpose of the conference was to identify challenges at local...
