By Nicholas McDiarmid, Editor, IMIESA The collapse of part of a roof at the Tongaat Mall construction site just north of Durban made the headlines last year, not only because of the fatalities and serious injuries, but also for the questionable...
Part one Based on a presentation to the annual IMESA conference “Municipal Engineering: Meeting People’s Needs”, held in Port Elizabeth, October 2013 By Kevin Wall, Oliver Ive, Jay Bhagwan, Wayne Birkholtz, Nocawe Lupuwana and Esther Shaylor...
The Polystyrene Council is driving a dynamic marketing and awareness campaign of its various charity projects to schools across Gauteng. According to PSPC Director, Adri Spangenberg, twenty new schools have committed themselves during the month of...
Tobela Tapula: Corporate and Government Affairs Manager Plastics|SA is proud to welcome Tobela Tapula as our new Manager: Corporate and Government Affairs, with effect from the 1st of March 2014. Although this is a National position, Tobela will be...
The November 2013 United Nations climate change conference identified human actions as the dominant cause of global warming and highlighted anurgent need to reduce carbon emissions by at least 4% per annum in order to stay within the global carbon...
The finalisation of the Wind Atlas for South Africa (WASA) Project for the Western Cape and parts of the Northern and Eastern Cape marks an important milestone in South Africa’s renewable energy efforts. WASA’s primary objective is to develop and...
The Deputy Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs Rejoice Mabudafhasi has launched the War on Waste project in Butterworth, in the Mnquma Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape. The War on Waste project was launched to showcase the work of the...
United Nations (UN) climate chief Christiana Figueres has called on the oil and gas industry to make a drastic shift to a clean, low-carbon future. Figueres appealed to the industry to become the solution rather than the problem to addressing the...
As Transnet accelerates its skills development drive to meet its ambitious growth objectives the first group of trainees graduated from the company’s Maritime School of Excellence. The group of 83 trainees qualified as Cargo Operators (38),...
