The Bargaining Council for the Civil Engineering Industry (BCCEI) has concluded a new three-year settlement for two of its collective agreements in the civil engineering sector. Officially signed on Monday 4 August 2025, by employer organisations...
There is growing concern coming from within the built environment that construction mafias and gang-related activities are on the rise threatening the safety of projects and professionals working on site. Â Yunus Bayat from the Association of South...
The Bargaining Council for the Civil Engineering Industry (BCCEI) says the sector has reached a three-year settlement agreement with respect to wages and conditions of employment. According to the BCCEI all parties agreed to a 7.5% wage increase...
The construction sector is threatening to take legal action against the government to ensure that they speed up the implementation of the construction sector charter codes aimed at promoting transformation in the industry. SABC on Monday reported...
IMIESA speaks to Frikkie Oosthuizen, Executive: Contractual Affairs and Support Services at SAFCEC, about key developments affecting the South African Forum of Civil Engineering Contractors. From its inception in 1939, the South African Forum of...
Sep 1, 2017
The Annual National Conference will see the civil engineering industry gather as a unified sector that is ready to deliver on the country’s infrastructure goals. The conference will feature a line up of speakers and presenters tackling the...
Alastair Currie, editor of IMIESA magazine, chats to Arno van der Merwe, CEO and executive director at Mercedes Benz South Africa at the 80th IMESA conference in East London. Van der Merwe discusses the automaker’s 67 years of manufacturing in East...
In an interview with IMIESA, Frikkie Oosthuizen, executive: Contractual Affairs & Support Services, South African Forum of Civil Engineering Contractors (SAFCEC), reports on market conditions and the road ahead. What is the current state of the...
Alastair Currie, editor of IMIESA magazine, chats to SAFCEC President Thembinkosi Nzimande about some of the key issues facing the South African construction industry. Nzimande says that there is currently a massive infrastructure constraint on the...
