Jeppe Park Primary in Johannesburg was recently announced as Africa’s first school to achieve a 4 Star Green Star rating. The school is part of the non-governmental organisation, Streetlight Schools, and boasts a number of green building and...
The recently released Natural Capital Protocol promises to give business a new appreciation of the ecosystem services on which they rely. According to Paul Jorgensen, environmental scientist at SRK Consulting in South Africa, the protocol offers a...
City Power managing director Sicelo Xulu was let go from the power utility, Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba said on Monday. This follows the tabling of a forensic report which revealed serious misconduct by Xulu. The report was presented to the...
Experts in the engineering fraternity shed light on the #ECSAsaga following a court case which has raised questions by 14 voluntary associations about the legitimacy of the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA). Source: SAICETV
Civil engineering confidence picked up by six index points to 43 in the second quarter of 2017, according to the Construction Industry Development Board’s (CIDB) SME business conditions survey. This follows a largely flat 2016 and a disappointing...
Construction projects are being decreased in the City of Cape Town as a result of level 4b water restrictions. One company down-scaling their project is listed property developer Calgro M3. The company said it was adhering to tighter restrictions...
A “cost per square metre rate” is a method of expressing building costs that should be used with extreme caution by clients and contractors, says Bert van den Heever, former president of the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors. He...
Africa’s power utilities are grappling with issues of sustainability and facing a range of new challenges, says Dr Willie de Beer, veteran power industry consultant and chairman of the Power Gen and Distribution Tech Africa Board. De Beer says risk...
Umgeni Water CEO Cyril Gamede amicably agreed to leave the water utility at the weekend, despite being cleared of corruption allegations. Gamede was recently suspended pending the outcome of an investigation. This followed the leaking of...
South Africa has been experiencing the worst drought in 100 years. Since the 1990s the country has lost a third of its farms due to water scarcity. As a result, farmers have had to turn to a high tech solution to help cope with dwindling water...
