The “Municipal Benchmarking Initiative” report from 2015 – compiled by the SA Local Government Association and the Water Research Commission – found the country didn’t even have 10% of the required number of engineers needed to...
The World Bank recently released a report on the impact rapid urbanisation and climate change has had on eThekwini’s environment. The report titled, Promoting Green Urban Development in African Cities, provides an urban environmental profile of the...
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...
Government and state-owned companies (SOCs) are set to spend R865.4 billion on public sector infrastructure, over the course of the next three years. This as Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan on Wednesday tabled the 2016 Budget. “Over the next three...
According to a recent United Nation’s report, more than half of global population growth between now and 2050 is expected to occur in Africa. “This projected growth may pose the greatest threat globally to climate change and other looming...
South Africa needs to focus on electricity demand side management rather than just supply management, to consider a total energy debate, according to the Green Building Council South Africa. In the run up to the national budget speech where one of...
Treatment of mine water requires highly specialised services to ensure client expectations are met. Herman Smit, managing director of Quality Filtration Systems (QFS) talks to Water&Sanitation Africa about what it takes to get the job done...
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...
Globally, the construction industry is one of the main contributors to the depletion of natural resources and a major cause of unwanted side effects such as air and water pollution, solid waste, deforestation, health hazards, global warming, and...
