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Solving environmental law confusion: Lawyer Lizette van der Walt launches innovative app
Lizette van der Walt is a lawyer specialising in environmental law. In her 27 years of experience, she noticed a general confusion around environmental laws in South Africa and decided to help by creating the Enviro Legal app. This app is designed to help users...
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Turning The Tide To Achieve SDG 6
Coming off the back of the WISA 2024 Biennial Conference and Exhibition, we can all agree that accelerated change is needed in achieving SDG 6 by 2030. As we celebrate 30 years of democracy this year and honour women during the month of August, it is fitting that we...
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[Industry Personality] Carin Bosman: Make noise and have a code
The water sector is filled with passionate people, Carin Bosman is one such passionate person, and she serves to remind us of all that water is for the betterment of humanity, and when you are tasked with doing what is right, you have to make some noise. Early on in...
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[Cover Story] 40 years strong: Lethabo Intake Pumping Station’s historic refurbishment
A part of Rand Water’s proactive infrastructure maintenance project comprised the refurbishment of pumps and electrical boards at the Lethabo Intake Pumping Station. This key facility pumps water to ESKOM Lethabo Power Station and supplies over half of Gauteng via the...
[VIDEO] Unpacking how Fibre Circle is implementing EPR regulations
The intention behind Extended Producer Responsibility is to ensure that producers take responsibility for the life cycle of the products they put into the market. It essentially changes how producers, brand owners, retailers and importers design,...
South Africa’s newest recycling heroes
Nine individuals and organisations have been recognised for their innovative and impactful work in recycling. The waste management sector is attracting a growing number of ‘wastepreneurs’ – including waste pickers and buy-back centre entrepreneurs...
ROCLA AND TECHNICRETE recognised at CMA Awards
Competing against the best, Rocla and Technicrete were honoured with Engineering Excellence Awards in the Infrastructure and Paving categories at the Concrete Manufacturers Association (CMA) 2022 Digital Awards for Excellence. “The CMA’s...
REFURBISHING TSHWANE’S fire-damaged substations
Earlier this year, the City of Tshwane awarded two contracts worth R200 million to Actom Power Systems to revamp the Pyramid and Kentron substations following extensive fire damage. In both instances, the initial focus is on constructing new...
Groundwater management is critical to keeping water supplies available and safe for future generations
Groundwater management is critical to keeping water supplies available and safe for future generations. By Dr Roger Parsons Groundwater is the most extracted material in the world, providing about half of the drinking water supply worldwide....
[PROJECT PROFILE] Key project to boost Gauteng water supply
Zuikerbosch Station 5A is a water purification plant under construction, located within the Rand Water Zuikerbosch Water Treatment Plant in Vereeniging. By Kirsten Kelly Scheduled for completion in 2024, the R3.9 billion project will purify an...
Sustainability
Women leading the way in creating a circular economy
The recycling industry is traditionally perceived as a male-dominated one, but in reality, many remarkable women and women-run businesses are making waves in it. Recently, three such South African women, who have found innovative ways to turn...
Solutions for sustainable asphalt
Within an environment currently characterised by significant risks, AECI Much Asphalt is putting its focus firmly on sustainability in response to the challenges faced by the asphalt industry following the Covid-19 pandemic. It is not an option to...
Opinion
Why businesses going paperless can do more harm than good
With South Africa celebrating Arbor Month in September, it is a good time to appreciate the role that all trees play in greening our cities, as a food source, in providing timber for construction, as fuel and, of course, as paper, packaging, and...
Cleaning up the construction industry with renewable energy
Carbon emissions from construction sites are a major contributor to global warming, largely owing to the industry’s dependency on fossil fuels. The International Energy Agency’s 2019 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction reveals that...
WOOD – the ultimate renewable resource for a circular economy
For three decades, the Paper Manufacturers Association of South Africa (PAMSA) has been promoting the positive economic, environmental and social story of forest-based pulp and paper products. ReSource speaks to Jane Molony, executive director at...
Ramaphosa’s emergency energy plan critical turning point for SA solar sector
President Ramaphosa’s recent announcement that all licensing requirements for private energy projects will be dropped has heralded what we hope will be a much-needed, new era for the country’s ongoing energy crisis. But while these advancements...
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Industry News
Joint action needed to stop construction mafia
The impact of the construction mafia on South Africa’s economic reconstruction has reached crisis proportions requiring an urgent and collaborative response, according to the Bargaining Council for the Civil Engineering Industry (BCCEI). The task...
Lesotho water project to boosts local construction industry
The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) has awarded the tender for the construction of the Polihali Operations Centre, a critical component of Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project’s (LHWP) advance infrastructure, to L&M,...
Building costs fail to keep up with rising input costs
During the fourth quarter of 2021, annual growth in tender prices, as measured by the BER Building Cost Index (BCI), accelerated by a revised 5.9%. Preliminary data for 2022Q1, however, shows a marked slowdown in the BER BCI. “Growth in tender...
Water
Metro News
[KZN Floods] Full evaluation of infrastructure damage is currently underway
It is anticipated that the full extent of the damage caused to structures during the unprecedented flooding which occurred in early April in parts of KwaZulu-Natal will be revealed over time due to the potential for water ingress through damaged...
Minister Senzo Mchunu announces section 63 Intervention on water projects in uMkhanyakude
The Minister of water and sanitation, Mr Senzo Mchunu, outlined the projects that will be embarked upon following the Department’s intervention in section 63 of the water services Act, 108 of 1997, in uMkhanyakude District...
Water quality tests incomplete in Tswane
The city of Tswane has reportedly conducted water quality tests in some areas which came back clean, however according to the city’s spokesperson Sipho Stuurman further tests still need to be conducted. Water quality tests were conducted in...
Engineering
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JG Afrika celebrates 100 years of excellence
JG Afrika, a proudly South African consulting engineering firm, is celebrating 100 years of engineering and environmental excellence. This significant milestone bears testament to the skills, experience, dedication, and passion of a strong team of...
Opinion
PPPs to help with expansion and maintenance of primary road network
It is often said that “roads are arteries through which the economy pulses”. They are part of the pivotal infrastructure that will determine the pace and direction of South Africa’s economic recovery and reconstruction. It is, therefore, of primary...
[OPINION PIECE] Potential for slow but steady recovery of construction sector
South Africa’s construction sector is a key contributor to GDP and jobs, employing around 8% of the South African workforce. With South African unemployment at a record high and broader economic growth constrained, the fortunes of the construction...
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