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Cape Town takes delivery of micro-tunnelling machine
The City of Cape Town has taken delivery of a new piece of machinery set to expedite its bulk sewer upgrade programme... read


Building Materials & Equipment
SANRAL opens new materials laboratory in PE
The South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) has opened a new engineering materials laboratory that will see road materials from across the Eastern Cape now tested in Port Elizabeth... read
Robotic technology installed at Corobrik Lawley factory
Installed in October last year at its Lawley Factory, Corobrik's new robotic technology is said to provide improved productivity, environmental efficiency, flexibility and enhanced manufacture quality... read
Construction & Engineering
J&G rebrands to JG Afrika

Sindy Peters

Engineering and environmental consulting company Jeffares & Green (J&G) has rebranded and, since February this year, is now known as JG Afrika... read
Regulator limits how much public will cough up for fuel pipeline

Andiswa Maqutu

New assets accumulated in the construction of Transnet's New Multi-Product Pipeline (NMPP) will not be included in the company's future tariff increase applications until the project is completed in 2019... read
Construction of infrastructure at Leratong City to commence
The new Leratong City integrated nodal development is set to get under way in Leratong, Mogale City in a joint development by McCormick Property Development, Calgro M3 and Sasuka Logistics Services... read
Sustainable Development
Sandton a major centre of green building activity in Africa
The Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg has been selected to host the annual Green Building Convention for the first time, which will put the spotlight on Sandton and Gauteng as a hub of green building... read
Urbanisation in developing countries: a completely different kettle of fish

Dietrich Vollrath, Doug Gollin, and Remi Jedwab

The patterns of urbanisation in the developing world in the past few decades have diverged significantly from historical trends. For the developed world, significant urbanisation was associated with industrialisation. With the cities came the factories... read
Parched days coming

Shaun Smillie

Nineteen years from now South Africa will be facing severe water shortages as demand outstrips supply despite planned government interventions, according to a study to be released today by the Institute for Security Studies... read
Renewable energy can reduce overall energy need of buildings
Rupesh Vaga, project engineer at EES Africa, says there are two main synergies which can be incorporated into modern building design to reduce the dependency of electrical generation on fossil fuels... read
Utilities
Eskom continues maintenance plans
While Eskom continues its maintenance plans, no load shedding is expected going into the autumn and winter seasons... read
Business
Suffering from busylepsy?

Naseem Javed

When was the last time you heard a senior executive say "I'm just too busy?" The claims of being too busy are primarily an admittance to suffering from 'busylepsy'... read
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