Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille says her department has set aside more than R260 million for the repairs and maintenance of court buildings across the country. Moreover, the Minister said she will ensure that service...
The 2019 SME Conditions Survey has once again confirmed the state of the South African building and construction industry. Building confidence ticked down from 33 to 30, as building activity slowed even further. Ntando Skosana, Project Manager for...
Development Bank of Southern Africa has called on young people to submit ideas which will help solve South Africa’s infrastructure challenges. The bank has launched a competition that urges the youth to submit suggestions relating to addressing...
The local property development sector, particularly the Cape Town-based construction industry is disintegrating, due to the City’s slow tendering and procurement process. Towards the end of 2018, the Western Cape Property Development Forum (WCPDF)...
The SA professional construction council is allegedly seeking help in dealing with what it terms the ‘Construction Mafia’. Speaking to Cape Talk, president of the South Africa Council for the Project and Construction Management...
With the current infrastructure delivery challenges in the North West Province – ranging from under spending, increasing accruals, huge project cost and time overruns – Finance MEC, Motlalepula Rosho will implement the “No Plan No Budget”...
Construction on Africa’s first eco-friendly road, incorporating recycled waste plastic has started in Jeffreys Bay this week. Kouga Executive Mayor Horatio Hendricks said Woltemade and Koraal Streets had been identified for the pilot project. “The...
The construction industry will be convening at Emperors Palace in September to develop a joint action-plan on dealing with the challenges the sector has been facing. This follows the collapse of several large contractors in recent months, which has...
Enel, through its renewable subsidiary Enel Green Power RSA, has started construction on its 140 MW Garob wind farm located near the town of Copperton, which is part of the Siyathemba Local Municipality, in South Africa’s Northern Cape province....
