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...
According to construction giant Murray & Roberts, government has not issued a single tender for the much punted R4 trillion infrastructure build planned by the Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating Commission (PICC). This casts serious doubt...
A LACK of integrated systems, the use of manual systems in some instances and invalid banking details are some of the challenges government departments face in trying to pay service providers within 30 days. These are some of the preliminary...
Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) president Naren Bhojaram made a clarion call for the ‘reincarnation of the municipal engineer’ at the 76th annual conference of the Institute of Municipal Engineering of Southern Africa (IMESA), held last...
The disclosure by Census 2011 that more people are moving to the Western Cape and Gauteng as a result of urbanisation is cause for concern, avers Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) CEO Graham Pirie. “It brings new dynamics into play in terms...
BKS joins AECOM As of 1 November 2012, BKS will be rebranded as AECOM, having announced 31 October 2012 that it has joined AECOM. The conclusion of the merger is pursuant to having received merger approval from the Competition Commission on 9...
Local power industry stakeholders are preparing to convene at the inaugural POWER-GEN Africa and co-located Renewable Energy World Africa events, from 6 to 8 November 2012 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. Under the theme ‘Global...
