The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) recently held the second National Investigative Project Showdown for South African universities’ civil engineering departments in Johannesburg. The civil engineering university research and...
Much has been written over the past couple of years around the topic of ‘Smart Cities’. By Lionel Moyal, Head of Intervate, a T-Systems company The utopian vision of the Smart City often involves carefully orchestrated traffic and public transport...
The creation of South Africa’s first gigantic “green city” is the result of the largest mixed-use precinct ever to be built in Tshwane. With the construction of Menlyn Maine, the traditionally residential suburb of Menlyn in Pretoria East has...
New developments are emerging in South Africa’s national conversation on using hydraulic fracturing (fracking) technology to release shale gas in the Karoo. These include the publication of the updated Regulations for Petroleum Exploration and...