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Development capital boosts African infrastructure
[Mark Allix] A new report finds that the funding gap for African infrastructure has narrowed to about $25bn a year... read


Building Materials & Equipment
Pact to support steel sector
Government is working closely with stakeholders in the steel sector to secure an agreement to support the country's primary steel production capabilities... read



Energy
Obama signs Africa electricity initiative into law
President Barack Obama signed into law Monday, 8 February, a measure aimed at expanding electricity to millions of households in sub-Saharan Africa, a measure supporters say will save lives and accelerate growth on the continent... read
Sustainable Development
Imagining and constructing healthier buildings
The focus at this year's Green Building Conference will be on leap-frogging straight to the lasted thinking, innovations, and technologies, enabling built environment designers to imagine and construct higher performing healthier buildings now and into the future... read
International
Technology, ancient and modern, can help buildings survive quakes
Shocking images of a Taiwan apartment complex felled like a tree by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake have highlighted what is needed to build a structure that can withstand seismic shocks... read
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Business
Revealed: the big CFO miscalculation

Auguste Coetzer

Chief financial officers are not generally known for making miscalculations, but they are currently in danger of making a big one... with huge ramifications for their future prospects... read
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