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...
The City of Cape Town is spending approximately R34.5 million to upgrade a section of Sir Lowry’s Pass Village Road in Somerset West. The project is nearly halfway, with the eastbound carriageway currently under construction. “The past few years...
The communities in the Muyexe, Dingamanzi and Gonono townships in the Giyani district now have access to street lighting to improve safety and security in the area. The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform recently undertook to increase...
Use of the sun’s energy is solving persistent water problems for farmers in the Namaqualand region of the Northern Cape. Solar pumps are coming online, bringing water to areas desperately in need of it. Farmers hard hit by the drought are...
Rural communities in two municipalities in the Ehlanzeni District will soon be beneficiaries of newly constructed sanitation facilities. The Department of Water and Sanitation is currently constructing 712 double structure toilets in villages in...
On the River Weaver in the northern England county of Cheshire, the Dutton sluice site consists of eight large sluice gates lifted by Rotork actuators. The water level in the river determines when to open or close the sluice gates and navigation is...
The Gauteng Province is to upgrade William Nicol Drive up to the N14 freeway for R576 million as part of Gauteng’s infrastructure development plans. Speaking on Tuesday during the launch of the project, MEC for Roads and Transport Ismail Vadi said...
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...
