The City of Cape Town has unveiled the first ‘green’ transport facility in South Africa that generates its own electricity, enabling it to operate off the electricity grid. The Wallacedene taxi rank is the first public transport facility in the...
Designing information systems for local needs. By Ulrike Rivett, Michael Champanis and Toni Wilson-Jones Between 1994 and 2012 over 21 million people in South Africa were given access to an improved water source and in 2008 the initiative of Blue...
The engineering principles for creating ‘green’ buildings are both well understood and have been widely applied. Nicholas McDiarmid, asks: where to from here? “We have earned our Stars in the art of green design, literally, and while innovation...
The international building materials group Lafarge has announced that the merger of its South African and Nigerian assets has started rolling out an expansion strategy in sub-Saharan Africa that will add an additional 10 million tonnes of cement...
