The South African National Roads Agency’s (Sanral) new CEO Skhumbuzo Macozoma addresses concerns regarding the agency’s funding model and vision. He says Sanral has realised it has to adopt an integrated funding model. This will see...
South Africa’s infrastructure market value increased by almost R70 billion between 2010 and 2015, and is set to skyrocket by another R113 billion by 2020. This is according to a report titled “Infrastructure Insight: South Africa” by leading market...
Many global realities are impacting Africa’s, especially Southern Africa’s construction industry, going into 2017. Last year the world experienced many unexpected developments, from Brexit to falling commodity prices, and waning GDP growth...
By Matt Coetzee By 2050, the UN predicts that cities will somehow accommodate a massive 2.5 billion more people than the 4 billion that already live there. The big question is: Where are they all going to go? How do we make sure these places are...
South Africa’s Water and Sanitation minister has issued a warning that if water resources are not managed well in the country, the drought situation will persist. The minister has emphasised the importance of careful water management seeing...
By Mike Axton and Brian Horton In the developed world, expectation is nothing less than a right. We open the tap, and we expect clean drinking water to flow. We switch on the lights, and bulbs must illuminate. We swim in waterways that must be safe...
Turning raw river water into potable drinking water will become a reality in Zambia with the intervention of a Johannesburg-based company. Water and wastewater engineering company WEC Projects was recently awarded a contract to install a water...
Rustenburg has digitised its water and sanitation network as part of a water-saving initiative that will benefit its municipality in the long run. With this, the city has developed a water master plan that will assist with reducing wastage,...
Air transport infrastructure in South Africa was recently ranked as 10th best in the world. This was according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index 2016-2017. The report looked at 138 countries and analysed factors that...
JJ Dowling is Continental Tyre South Africa’s (CTSA) new general manager (GM) of manufacturing at its Port Elizabeth plant. He replaces former GM, Wayne Brown, who recently took up a position at Continental Tyre in the United States. Dowling is...
