“South Africans have shown that we have the power during Earth Hour to make a difference when Eskom confirmed last year that we had switched off and achieved a massive, combined 629MW average reduction on our electricity usage”, says Nicolette...
Optimism over biofuels is tempered by concerns over their economic viability and their implications for socio-economic development, food security and environmental sustainability, the United Nations’s (UN) 2014 World Water Development Report....
Addis Ababa City Administration will construct a large sanitary landfill in Sendafa town. The city is offering up a $27.6 million international tender to construct the landfill which will cover an area of 136ha. Once complete it will be devoted to...
Road crews and construction companies may not excavate natural sands, aggregates and minerals from borrow pits without all the necessary permissions from local, regional and national government authorities. Despite initial cries that project prices...
Durban has won the IBM Smarter City Challenge that will see IBM experts providing expertise and working with the City’s leadership to develop a roadmap to a smart city which is aligned to the economic development and job creation plan for the City....
Three African cities have won IBM Smarter Cities Challenge grants. IBM will this year be helping at least 16 cities and counties around the world to address issues ranging from clean water, healthy food, and revenue generation, to job development,...
President Jacob Zuma says the opening of De Hoop Dam is a celebration as it takes development forward in Limpopo. The De Hoop Dam, the 13th largest dam in the country, was officially opened this week. The dam forms part of the Olifants River Water...
When viewing bills of material and project specifications on so-called green construction projects, it is clear to see that not enough attention is paid to the constituents of concrete. According to Nico Pienaar of the Aggregate and Sand Producers...
A report in the government-owned newspaper “Zambia Daily Mail” recently warned that the Kariba Dam, on the Zambezi River at the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, is on the verge of collapsing, but the Mozambican authorities know nothing about...
