The WRC’s latest water history offering has just been published. The new book, In the Footsteps of Giants – Exploring the History of South Africa’s large dams, is now available following four years of painstaking research. The glossy, full...
Basil Read’s building division has completed the second phase of the construction company’s new headquarters (pictured), with most of the group’s divisions and some subsidiaries taking occupation as of 30 March 2012. In early 2011, Studio mhr...
Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA), strongly opposes the call by Minister Tokyo Sexwale to create a state-owned construction company. Speaking on behalf of their 470 member firms, employing in excess of 22 000 employees, president of CESA,...
Mombasa City, the gem of Africa’s Coastline and the dream travel destination of many tourists worldwide, is not just facing the threat of ‘drowning’ over rising sea level. The ground on which this Coastal city is sitting on is also swaying under...
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The Master Builders South Africa (MBSA), a national organisation representing the building industry, is none too pleased with Tokyo Sexwale’s proposal for a state construction company. “We are very concerned with the proposition tabled...
Building industry organisations and experts are “very concerned” about the government’s intention to consider establishing a state-owned construction company. “This is just another hair-brain scheme,” Llewellyn Lewis, the principal consultant at...
Green Point Athletics stadium, formerly known as Green Point Common is in the process of getting a face-lift, forming an integral part of the new Green Point Urban Parks initiative to upgrade facilities in Green Point, Cape Town. WSP was...
The Department of Human Settlements (DOHS) is considering establishing a state-owned construction company. This is according to a statement made by the Minister of Human Settlements Tokyo Sexwale on Wednesday. Sexwale outlined that when houses are...
