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Speeding up house construction times

Delegates at this year’s Readymix Conference by Sarma were able to witness first-hand how tilt-up construction can be used to speed up the delivery of houses or infrastructure such as hospitals or police stations. Tilt-up construction is an...

Egypt tightens deadline on new Suez Canal project

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has tightened the deadline on the construction of the new Suez Canal project. The project, which will cost US$4 billion, involves digging a 72-kilometre canal alongside the original channel in order to...

Toxic algae tracked

Lund University in Sweden has developed a “super detector” that can track traces from a teaspoon of sugar in the Baltic Sea. The technology has also been adapted for use as a potentially life-saving technique that can detect toxic algae blooms in...

A legend for a legendary cause

Celebrating the end of an era, UD Trucks donated the last of its U41 range, a UD 40, to the Legends Rhino Orphanage in Limpopo*. As the last vehicle rolled off the assembly line in Rosslyn, staff gathered to see the end of an era in its MCV range,...