Imagine a world where the physical and digital interact seamlessly; where creativity is the new corporate currency; and where business minds take lessons from children when it comes to innovation. Aurecon’s new blog, Just Imagine, provides a...
Innovation at its best. Nigeria’s floating school is located in one of Nigeria’s biggest informal settlements and house up to 100 students and teachers. The 100 year-old slum is home to thousands of people whose major source of income...
The 6th edition of Go Green in the City, the global business case challenge focusing on innovative energy solutions for smart cities, is well underway. From January 15th to April 15th, 2016, business and engineering bachelor, master or MBA students...
A ground breaking solar solution was inaugurated by Government officials in a ceremony at an off-grid school in the informal settlement of Palm Ridge on Wednesday. In 2015 the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) was approached with a new way of...
The eThekwini Municipality is set to commission the upgrade of the road infrastructure in the Umhlanga Ridge Town Centre. According to the municipality the upgrade is necessary to support development in the area and address the existing traffic...
South Africa’s capital, the City of Tshwane, will be the site of national and international knowledge sharing when it hosts the 10th annual Green Building Conference on 1 and 2 June 2016. The focus at Green Building16 will be on leap-frogging...
The National Energy Regulator (Nersa) approved a 9.4% electricity hike for 2016/17 on Tuesday. Eskom submitted an application to Nersa in November last year to recover R22.8bn, which the utility said it used to avert load shedding. The decision...
An amount of R3 million has been allocated for the upgrading of traffic calming measures in the Buffalo City Metro to help decrease traffic congestion as well high accidents. Traffic lights have been installed in the busy Buffalo Street. “Buffalo...
The City of Cape Town is spending approximately R34.5 million to upgrade a section of Sir Lowry’s Pass Village Road in Somerset West. The project is nearly halfway, with the eastbound carriageway currently under construction. “The past few years...
