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Construction workers protest Lafarge-Holcim Merger

Construction workers around the world protested the merger of two multinational cement companies, Lafarge and Holcim, over workers’ rights last week. According to a report by the Daily Independent construction workers under aegis of...

Making bricks from wheat

Wheat farmers in Rwanda will soon benefit from both wheat output and its residues which will be transformed into building materials like construction bricks and other products once a new factory at the Special Economic Zone begins operations....

Pikitup turning waste into power

While South Africa grapples with electricity challenges, the City of Johannesburg believes it has a solution that can help to keep the lights on. Pikitup, the City’s waste management company, says the five landfills it manages will by 2016 generate...