Excerpted from a larger project. Recently completed a time-lapse construction video documenting a project over the Trinity River for the DART extension to DFW airport in Dallas. This particular sequence was shot at night and was highly animated, so...
We work on construction sites everyday wearing hard hats. We know safety is important but if it’s uncomfortable, most guys won’t be safe. We developed this Head Protection Gear to make wearing your hard hat more comfortable and...
Most of the increasing number of alternative building technologies on offer now to help reduce the increasing backlog of housing in South Africa are essentially concrete systems. This is according to Adéle de Lange, human settlements technical...
Pretoria — Cabinet, at its three-day Lekgotla this week, agreed to include a new Strategic Integrated Project (SIP) on water and sanitation as part of government’s infrastructure plan. “The Lekgotla agreed to a new SIP on water and...
The finals of the very successful annual BKS-SAICE International Bridge Building Competition organised by the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) were held at the St Albans College in Pretoria. BKS has once again provided the...
Kevin Surace suggests we rethink basic construction materials, such as the familiar wallboard, to reduce the huge carbon footprint generated by the manufacturing and construction of our buildings. He introduces EcoRock, a clean, recyclable and...
Private investment in infrastructure should not be viewed as a quick way to make money, Deputy Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene said on Tuesday. “Infrastructure development should not be seen as any easy way to make money out of government,” he told...
A governement department is building an R8 billion “green” head office in a Pretoria suburb in spite of government-owned buildings standing empty in the inner city. Construction on the building for the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA)...
Eskom again faces power shortages. Within six years the utility will have a 40m tonne coal deficit to meet its annual requirements. This shortfall is owing to Mpumalanga’s shrinking coal reserves, which need urgent supplementation with coal from...
