Engineering and project management services company, K’Enyuka has opened a branch in Richards Bay aimed at strengthening its local service capabilities, facilitating easy access to new project work and delivering on its business strategy to...
This is a wood framing technology, originally from Japan, that I led the effort to transfer to the USA. Essentially a small group of untrained people can erect an entire house frame in 1-3 days, depending on the size of the structure.
“Despite the fact that the proportion of households living in formal dwellings has gone up by 12,5% since 1996, 8,8% of households still do not have access to piped water, 31 % of households still do not have acceptable sanitation facilities. While...
The Cement & Concrete Institute (C&CI) Education Programme for 2013 has been published. Petrus Jooste, education and training manager of the C&CI, says concrete training plays a vital role at a time when the shortage of skills is...
The theme of this year’s CESA Conference is “Unlocking Infrastructure Delivery and Restoring the Ethical Balance in Construction”. The two part theme implies that infrastructure delivery is locked. “We are not getting anywhere with this in mind,”...
The proportion of South Africans with access to electricity, piped water and sanitation increased considerably over the past decade, according to the country’s latest national census. Statistics South Africa released the results of census...
Plans by the eThekwini municipality to use recycled water to provide 10% of its water needs have been dealt a heavy blow by citizens. A petition with 5 000 signatures was handed over to the municipality as part of the environmental impact...
South Africa, under its Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Program (REIPP), approved $5.4bn to develop clean energy projects and reduce dependence on coal energy. The country’s energy minister Dipuo Peters said the government has...
Of the more than 14.5 million dwellings in South Africa, by far the majority are brick houses or concrete structures, according to the 2011 Census According to the document — a snapshot of the situation in the country on October 9 last year — there...
SOUTH Africa needs cheap and reliable energy, no one could dispute that. But renewable energy is neither. As a wandering albatross that clattered onto my balcony this week told me, it is actually making e-tolls on Gauteng’s freeways look positively...
