Solid waste management has to do with handling of solid refuse from their sources of generation and also one of the sources and causes of environmental pollution through storage, collection, transportation, recovery and treatment processes to...
Namibian power utility NamPower is currently exporting electricity to its South African counterpart Eskom, which is struggling to meet demand, an official said. “We are currently exporting up to 200MW of electricity to South Africa,”...
As Eskom missed another deadline to bring its Medupi power station online, and its financial woes have led to fears over South Africa’s electricity supply in 2015, world energy leaders will congregate in Johannesburg in a month to discuss the...
Century City will soon be home to another green building, when a well known global engineering company starts construction on its new offices. When the Aurecon’s Century City office building in Cape Town was built in 2011, it was the first building...
Discarded plastic bottles from bottled water and other beverages have become an eye sore in many African countries and efforts to recycle them barely scratch the surface, however there may be another solution capable of solving two African problems...
Renewable energy has benefited South Africa, a study by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has found. The independent study by the CSIR found that renewable energy from the country’s first wind and solar (photovoltaic)...
The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) says it is not surprised by the downgrade over the e-tolling system by credit rating agency, Moody’s Investors Service. Sanral chief financial officer Inge Mulder said: “Sanral is solvent,...
Johannesburg Water has put this weekend’s planned water cuts on hold, after initially warning residents that maintenance on a pump station would mean a lack of water. The planned maintenance of Eikenhof Pump Station was supposed to take place from...
A sediment basin in the new project being dug parallel to the Suez Canal partially collapsed earlier this week. According to a report by Egyptian State television no casualties have been reported as a result of the collapse. In an interview with...
One of South Africa’s leading building materials companies worked closely with Cape Town architects Stauch Vorster right from the design phase of South Africa’s first green taxi rank in Wallacedene, in the northern suburbs of Cape Town. For the...
