By Liesl Frankson The Department of Water and Sanitation has presented a progress report on interventions and solutions to tackle the problem of Acid mine drainage (AMD) in the country. The presentation was made at a meeting held with a...
Every two years, the Institute of Municipal Engineering of Southern Africa (IMESA) invites local, provincial and government or semi-government authorities and their engineering consultants to submit entries for the IMESA Biennial Project Excellence...
By Liesl Frankson Executive Mayor of Polokwane, Councillor Thembi Nkadimeng, has laid out plans for major improvements to some of the municipality’s infrastructure. Speaking at a media briefing on her 100 days in office, Nkadimeng addressed issues...
South African black-owned consulting engineering firm, GIBB, announced the appointment of Charlotte van der Merwe as Head of the firm’s urban and rural planning division. Together with the engineering component of the firm’s Integrated...
Recent legislation promulgated in the United States has put caps in Massachusetts limiting the amount of food that goes to landfill. In South Africa and many other developing countries around the world no such cap exists, although these countries...
BMW South Africa has signed a power purchasing agreement with energy company Bio2Watt, to supply the car manufacturer with renewable energy sources for operations at its Rosslyn production facility, north of Pretoria. In what is thought to be the...
People living in informal settlements in Kenya will soon have access to safe, hygienic sanitation services as a sanitation solutions company has committed to increasing its operations in the country. By making this commitment they have joined the...
Low pressure compressed air is widely used for applications such as waste water aeration at treatment plants; dilute phase pneumatic conveying of dry powders and flue-gas desulphurisation of emission stacks. “The blower market for small volume...
IMESA’s annual conference, hosted in partnership with the City of Ethekwini, has an apt theme: Balancing Service Delivery. The opening session on Wednesday 29 October, gave a substance to that theme at a far more intrinsic level than...
