With all the challenges facing the industry today, whether these are economic, social, environmental or political, engineers need to adapt and be innovative. This starts with the local authorities, where most of professionals perform some function to serve South Africa’s communities. It goes beyond the government corridors – it stretches into the ideas and solutions for taking municipal engineering into the future as envisaged and created by the engineers in South Africa.

The IMESA Trade Exhibition has grown steadily over the past 80 years and has become a very important feature of the IMESA conferences. The exhibition is always one of the major reasons why delegates attend IMESA conferences.

The theme for 2016 is “Siyaphambili – Engineering the future”.