South African based civil engineering consulting firm UWP Consulting has celebrated its 47th anniversary with a new name. UWP Consulting officially changed its name to Mariswe on 1 February 2019 following 10 years of change that have resulted in...
Gauteng residents have been urged to participate in and cooperate with fieldworkers currently conducting a transport survey in and around the province. The survey, which is being conducted by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research...
Johannesburg Water has advised residents of the City of Johannesburg to check the load shedding schedule of their respective areas on the Eskom and City Power websites, as power outages affect water supply. In a statement released on Wednesday the...
There is growing concern coming from within the built environment that construction mafias and gang-related activities are on the rise threatening the safety of projects and professionals working on site. Yunus Bayat from the Association of South...
The Department of Water and Sanitation says it is in consultation with a number of stakeholders and water entities around the country to ensure that their systems do not fail amid ongoing load shedding. Deputy Director-General for Special Projects,...
UN Sustainable Goal 6 is crystal clear: Water for all by 2030. For World Water Day we take a look at ways that space can help this global challenge. While Earth-observing satellites monitor our precious water resources, technologies developed for...
Millions of students from across the world marched through the streets calling for world leaders to act against climate change. The mostly teenaged protesters marched with banners reading “save our future”. For more on the story we are...
Mariswe’s stated aim is to engineer infrastructural solutions that build communities to improve people’s lives. Anew kid on the block?” you may ask. Not at all: rather a new name for a company that has matured and changed, and is no longer...
A group of Cape Town based Greenpeace Africa volunteers has started an ambitious campaign calling on South Africa’s top political parties to adopt a ban on single-use plastics in their election manifestos ahead of this year’s...
A lack of progress on National Development Plan implementation is killing off South Africa’s construction sector and hampering economic growth. This is according to construction industry association Master Builders’ Association North and comes...
