The country’s leading built environment professionals gathered on 11 November for the 2020 CESA Aon Engineering Excellence Awards, hosted virtually for the first time. This year’s awards, sponsored by Aon South Africa, celebrated innovation,...
“Communities are an integral part of any infrastructure and construction project, they must be seen as rightful participants and the different voices that exist in every community need to be heard – women, the youth, the aged, the disabled, etc....
An ambitious infrastructure build and maintenance programme, consisting of a reliable pipeline of bankable projects using public funding to leverage private and other forms of financing, is key to stimulate economic activity and employment in the...
Fires at landfill sites happen more often than you think, and no landfill goes unscathed. There have already been several landfill fires this year in South Africa alone. There are several contributing factors which can lead to fires, but whether as...
Large parts of the country’s dams continued their downward slide this week despite heavy showers falling in Gauteng over a period of three days at the beginning of the week. A weekly dam level report by the Department of Water and Sanitation shows...
Early bird registrations for WISA 2020, the region’s biggest water conference, close on 31 October. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s WISA conference will be entirely virtual, incorporating everything that a traditional conference offers...
Despite a slow start in May due to extended Covid-19 restrictions, underground tunneling works inside the two Polihali Diversion Tunnels, which form part of Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, is progressing well. Continued border...
Infrastructure News Round Up brings you all the latest news making headlines in infrastructure, water and sanitation and waste management, in just 90 seconds. In this weeks installment: Latest figures show growth in plastics recycling industry...
The International Aluminium Institute (IAI) has released global aluminium recycling data. According to figures from the IAI, recycling just one aluminium can conserves enough energy to recharge up to 20 mobile phones, while global aluminium...
