The Free State Department of Roads claims it has reached “mutually agreeable settlements” with all but one of the contractors owed hundreds of millions of rand for work completed on 23 road rehabilitation contracts in the province. However,...
South Africans could face more power cuts, as the distribution grid will gradually collapse from 2015 unless a maintenance backlog is addressed, an expert said on Thursday. “We are three years away from collapse,” Deon Louw, the deputy...
Inferences that delaying the implementation of e-tolling will cause harm by reducing funding to social programmes is “emotional blackmail”, says the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (OUTA). It rejects media reports of this idea and says the...
Building confidence among building contractors, manufacturers of building materials and quantity surveyors in South Africa has increased marginally. The immediate outlook, however, is that the local construction industry will continue to face...
In the realm of pressure management, the company has implemented the i20 system; the world’s most advanced solution. Municipalities, utilities and government organisations in South Africa have saved 82.9 Mℓ/d of potable water worth R100million a...
Contaminated water and increases of deadly substances in drinking water are increasingly becoming the silent assassin of people in South Africa, especially the marginalised in rural areas. Contaminated water already claimed victims. In 2008 the...
In this funny and insightful talk, builder Dan Phillips tours us through a dozen homes he has built in Texas, USA, using recycled and reclaimed materials in wildly creative ways. Brilliant, low-tech design details will refresh your own creative...
Senegal’s capital city Dakar sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean on a peninsula. It’s at least a thousand miles to the Sahara desert yet the air today is so thick with sand that the tops of buildings disappear in a sandy haze. It’s...
Subsurface pipeline construction and rehabilitation company Trenchless Technologies’ involvement in the replacement of 414 metres of sewer pipeline at the Isithebe Industrial Estate in the iLembe District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal saw...
