The engineering principles for creating ‘green’ buildings are both well understood and have been widely applied. Nicholas McDiarmid, asks: where to from here? “We have earned our Stars in the art of green design, literally, and while innovation...
Anglo Platinum are piloting an electricity project at the Naledi Trust Village. The mining giant moved in with a massive tank containing a mix of water and methanol.  This mixture is piped through to these fuel cells. which is used to generate...
KwaZulu-Natal Premier calls the possibility of setting up the Premier’s Infrastructure Coordinating Commission modelled along the lines of the Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating Commission (PICC). This was made when Premier Senzo Mchunu...
North West MEC for Local Government and Human Settlements Collen Maine has committed to building 6 888 housing units in this financial year with a focus on eradicating informal settlements. “We want to create access to clean water and decent...
The African Water Facility (AWF), with the support of the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) East Africa Regional Resource Center, brought together more than 40 project managers from over 15 English-speaking African countries to participate in a...
President Jacob Zuma has told ministers, premiers and mayors, who are part of the Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating Commission (PICC) that they must jointly attend to delivery matters with speed and a problem-solving culture. Zuma was...
Environmental Management Inspectors the Green Scorpions will embark on a sand mining blitz across the country. The days of the blitz are undisclosed to ensure greater impact. This is a joint national and provincial compliance and enforcement...
Tetra Pak, the food processing and packaging solutions business, has made strong progress in 2013 towards its 2020 environmental targets, focusing on developing sustainable products, reducing environmental footprint across the value chain and...
Investing in ways to adapt to climate change will promote the livelihood of 65% of Africans, the United Nations environmental agency reports. However, it warned that failing to address the phenomenon could reverse decades of development progress on...
