Dr Paul Nordengen describes the shortcomings in car carrier trailer design. The challenge with designing and operating trucks and trailers is that the objective is to maximise productivity. While truck OEMs, trailer manufacturers, and transport...
A presentation by Ms Simoné Smith (Senior Researcher: Transport, Freight and Logistics- CSIR), at the Transport Forum SIG: “Driving down cost in the Supply Chain” on 3 September 2015 in Durban, hosted by Transnet. The topic of the...
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) researchers have warned that continued population and economic growth, combined with climate change, could result in serious water shortages in some parts of the country by 2025. Speaking to the...
South Africa is battling to control overloading. And Paul Nordengen of the Council for Scientific Research, says a culture of non-compliance exists in South Africa today. He was delivering a presentation detailing the overload control challenges...
It is anticipated that in the hotter, wetter and drier South Africa of the future, many things will go wrong. Water sources will evaporate. Malaria, yellow fever and dengue fever will thrive. Extreme weather and malnutrition could potentially...
The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) has started to prescribe a new cement product to be used by consulting engineers tendering on roads in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Other major road project across the entire...
The Water Research Commission (WRC) initiated and funded a research project that developed the comprehensive water harvesting and conservation (WH & C) learning materials package over the period November 2007 to March 2011. The project leader,...
The scarcity and quality of water have emerged as trigger points around this precious life-giving liquid at a major symposium hosted by FMCG giant Unilever. With a proactive outlook to addressing some of the country’s many water management...
During the Water Research Commission (WRC) Symposium Gala Dinner held at the CSIR on 26 September 2013, Dr Nico Benadé was awarded for the development of training material for implementation of the Water Administration System (WAS), an integrated...
