Pictured: Removal of sheetpiles from the support jetty Frankipile Ghana, a division of Esorfranki Geotechnical, is progressing well on the urgent Ada Coastal Protection Works project launched by Ghana’s Ministry for Works and Housing to reduce...
A newly constituted industry body, The Concrete Institute, funded by AfriSam, Lafarge and new cement producer, Sephaku, will continue the valuable services provided by the Cement & Concrete Institute (C&CI), which closed down in April this...
In a bid to invest in the South African plastic pipe market, Marley Pipe Systems has successfully acquired the assets of Petzetakis Africa, the South African based pipe producer, which were placed into liquidation a while back. Marley’s journey to...
A massive Namibian housing development programme is in its final stages of preparation. The housing development programme, understood to be a public/private partnership between the government and institutional investors, including the...
Pictured: Caterpillar fields three trencher models in its work tool line-up: optional cutting widths for all three models are 152, 203, 254 and 305 mm to suit site specific applications For North West contractor, Aquanic Environmental Services...
The Head of Metro Police, Commissioner Eugene Nzama has congratulated members of the service who have uncovered an established hideout for street drug peddlers. This discovery was made in an underground tunnel network stretching about four square...
eNCA’s Eleni Gioko interviews Chairman of Frontline Development Partners, Suresh Chaturvedi, on infrastructure development in Africa.
Pictured: Nina Saunders, outgoing President of the KZN Institute for Architecture inducts Kevin Bingham as incoming President of the KZNIA Kevin Bingham of FGG Architects in Durban was inducted as president of the KwaZulu-Natal Institute for...
Compliance and enforcement are the biggest challenges facing the medical waste/health-care risk waste industry, Stan Jewaskiewitz, past president of IWMSA, tells Chantelle Mattheus. Fundamentally, the medical waste (health-care risk waste – HCRW)...
A carbon tax will come into effect from 2015, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan announced in Parliament during the tabling of his Budget Speech on 27 February 2013. “Government proposed to price carbon by way of a carbon tax, at the rate of R120 per...
