Human settlements require multidisciplinary expertise to fully realise the goals of Outcome 8 of the NDP. Kibiti Ntshumaelo, professional engineer and managing director of Lekwa Consulting Engineers, discusses how partnering with the public and...
The pressing need to harness the power of public infrastructure to boost economic growth and achieve national development goals is a priority at all levels of government. With 77% of the projected R813 billion to be spent on infrastructure,...
Energy is an inherent by-product of the gravitational force that drives the flow of water in our national pipelines. RITZ Pumps South Africa has the know-how and technology to utilise pumps as turbines, converting a latent resource into urgently...
Something very strange is going on in Cape Town, where just over 20 water pipes burst in the space of about an hour. The City of Cape Town’s alerts Twitter page first tweeted at about 10:40 on Tuesday that a water pipe had burst in Central...
Bridge City, a key link in KwaZulu-Natal’s rapidly developing Northern Growth Corridor, is attracting entrepreneurs and new entrants into the property development space. Brian Ive, a Development Executive at Tongaat Hulett Developments, said the...
Transport for Cape Town has set aside a special budget allocation of R18 million to implement 270 traffic calming projects across the city in the current financial year. “The majority of the traffic calming measures, such as speed humps, raised...
Nicholas McDiarmid, Associate Publisher of www.infrastructurene.ws , its three print titles, and editor of IMIESA Magazine, was recently interviewed about the role of municipal infrastructure on the cost of living in South Africa. Focusing on how...
The Gauteng Department for Roads and Transport has spent R193 million to upgrade the R25 (P6-1) road between Bapsfontein and Bronkhorstspruit. Provincial MEC for Roads and Transport Ismail Vadi said the project entailed an ugrade of a 42 kilometre...
The Oudtshoorn Waste Water Treatment Works (WWTW) have been thrust into the spotlight in recent weeks, as allegations of sewage pollution making its way from the works into the Olifants River dominated local media reports. Members of a Provincial...
