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Acknowledge the glass ceiling, demonstrate how unnecessary it is
Acknowledge the glass ceiling, demonstrate how unnecessary it is
[Sindy Peters] With over 13 years of property industry experience, Genevieve Naidoo began her career as a junior quantity surveyor... read


Building
Why we need to unite to feed children while at school
Why we need to unite to feed children while at school

Issued by Peninsula School Feeding Association

In a call for Cape Town to unite against hunger at our schools, the Peninsula School Feeding Association's Charity Family Fun Walk Blisters for Bread will take place at the Green Point Cricket Club on Sunday, 28 August... read
Architecture & Design
SA sub-cities to address traffic congestion
SA sub-cities to address traffic congestion
According to the 2016 TomTom Traffic Index Report, Cape Town has been ranked the 47th most congested city in the world and the most congested city in South Africa followed by Johannesburg. read
Dion Chang
Q&A with Dion Chang on SA innovation, design
Trends guru Dion Chang is one of the guest speakers at the fifth edition of Autodesk's University Extension (AUx), an event for design, architectural and engineering professionals... read
Building Materials & Equipment
Kaalfontein School
Prefabricated classrooms installed to quell overcrowding
Kwikspace Modular Buildings (Kwikspace), local manufacturer of prefabricated buildings, has, together with the Department of Education, provided over 2,000 permanent and temporary new classrooms throughout South Africa over the last two to three years... read
New app launched to assess stainless steel life cycle costs
New app launched to assess stainless steel life cycle costs
According to sassda, one of the biggest obstacles to the specification of stainless steel in certain applications is the misperception that it's more expensive in comparison to other initially cheaper options... read
Construction & Engineering
Retail property still being built at a brisk pace
Retail property still being built at a brisk pace

John Loos

June Retail Building Statistics complete the second quarter building picture, and pointed to a still-brisk pace of retail space building activity for the second quarter as a whole... read
Residential unit completions growth is weak
Residential unit completions growth is weak

John Loos

For the month of June, square metres' worth of residential buildings completed rose by 12.4% year-on-year. This represents a strengthening from the prior months' slower growth of +2.7%... read
Property Development
Bridge city hospital under construction
Development of Bridge City moving apace
With bulk infrastructure - particularly transport nodes - already operational, the development of the Bridge City town centre north of Durban is moving apace... read
Smart Buildings
Connecting cities in the cloud
Connecting cities in the cloud

Giulio Soro

While smart cities have held a great deal of promise for many years, they are only beginning to come to fruition now... read
Sustainable Development
Councillor Van Minnen inspects the ceiling of Mrs Jennifer Jonas in Vrygrond.
CT embarks on next phase in ceiling retrofit project
R60m has been earmarked for the next phase of the City of Cape Town's ceiling retrofit project... read
Menlyn Maine
Green Menlyn Maine to launch Central Square in September
Tshwane's R10bn green mini-city, the Menlyn Maine precinct, will come online with the launch of its Central Square next month... read
Uplifting communities through woodwork
Uplifting communities through woodwork
The 2016 Working with Wood Show, in association with the Association of Woodturners South Africa (AWSA), will be held at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) George Campus from 26-28 August... read
Utilities
SA moves to secure water sources
SA moves to secure water sources
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is consulting stakeholders to get input on the National Groundwater Strategy... read
SA reiterates commitment to diversified energy mix
SA reiterates commitment to diversified energy mix
Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson has reiterated that South Africa is pursuing a diversified energy mix that includes both independent power producers and the nuclear build... read
International
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Concrete beach lures Chinese to world's largest building
Claiming to be the world's largest building by floor space, the 1,760,000 square metres of the New Century Global Center are a monument to growing Chinese consumer power, packed with shoppers - and beach bathers a thousand kilometres from the coast... read
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Business
What small business can learn from Pokémon Go
What small business can learn from Pokémon Go

Scott Zambonini

Location-based mobile game Pokémon Go is perhaps the best commercial example of augmented reality (AR) gaming to date... read
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