3SMedia | Jun 19, 2012
At least R5 billion worth of new infrastructure and property projects are on the cards for Mogale City on the West Rand (Gauteng), which is aiming to become one of the top economic growth areas nationally. And the residential property market in the...
3SMedia | Jun 19, 2012
Llewellyn Lewis, the principal consultant at the BMI building research strategy consulting unit, said the worst of the recession was behind the building and construction industry and it could look forward to slow and steady growth across all...
3SMedia | Jun 13, 2012
Today, SMEC formally announced its merger with Vela VKE at a press briefing in Sandton – strengthening their standing in South Africa and the wider African market. SMEC is an Australian-based professional services firm with a global footprint that...
3SMedia | Jun 1, 2012
Basil Read’s building division has completed the second phase of the construction company’s new headquarters (pictured), with most of the group’s divisions and some subsidiaries taking occupation as of 30 March 2012. In early 2011, Studio mhr...
3SMedia | Jun 1, 2012
Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA), strongly opposes the call by Minister Tokyo Sexwale to create a state-owned construction company. Speaking on behalf of their 470 member firms, employing in excess of 22 000 employees, president of CESA,...
3SMedia | May 30, 2012
Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) has reiterated the need for government to get its house in order. The lack of infrastructure development due to projects not being undertaken as well as tender processes taking up to three years to...
3SMedia | May 29, 2012
by Richard Jansen van Vuuren All those wonderful feelings and memories of the Soccer World Cup seem so distant lately. In just two years since the event the construction industry and government have been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons....
3SMedia | May 21, 2012
Law enforcement processes and other forensic investigations were under way in Limpopo, “ensuring that any wrongdoing is identified and necessary action taken against individuals involved”, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said in Parliament on...
3SMedia | May 21, 2012
The Master Builders South Africa (MBSA), a national organisation representing the building industry, is none too pleased with Tokyo Sexwale’s proposal for a state construction company. “We are very concerned with the proposition tabled...
