The South African Water Meter Manufacturers’ Association (WMMA) has cautioned municipalities and water utilities about the ‘questionable quality and sub-standard performance’ of some water meters reportedly being introduced to the local market....
Esorfranki is on track to significantly exceed its pipejacking targets for 2011. Water&Sanitation Africa took the opportunity to find out about some of the company’s pipejacking projects. The company has recently completed a R19 million...
BIGEN AFRICA has enhanced its vision, mission and value proposition to reflect its thought leadership in providing innovative, sustainable infrastructure development solutions in Africa and abroad over an entire project’s lifecycle....
African Sanitation Outsourcing, a BBBEE Cape Town-based company, is the principle distributor of the Afrisan Solar Powered Urine Diversion toilet, the S.P.U.D., in South Africa. The S.P.U.D was developed over a period of six years, during which...
South Africa has never shied away from designing innovative solutions required through dire circumstance. Our history is punctuated with social and economic milestones, yet a massive malevolent prospect looms in the not too distant future....
Yunus Carrim, deputy minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) is committed to making the Municipal Infrastructure Support Agency (MISA) work. It simply has to. We are under...
Multi-disciplinary contractor, Edwin Construction, is playing a key role in expanding South Africa’s road network as it presses ahead on strategically important projects in the Limpopo and Free State provinces. Traffic volumes along Route 33 (R33)...
The construction of a 100 metre long bridge over the Hennops River forms part of a 22 month contract awarded to Esorfranki Civils for the building of a 4.2 km dual carriageway. Piling for the new bridge, being undertaken by Esorfranki Geotechnical,...
A bridge over Yitong River in Changchun city, the capital of Jilin province in Northeast China, lays in ruins after collapsing on 29 May 2011. Two people were injured. In Africa, the integrity of some bridges are questionable, particularly those...
