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 5Â 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...
