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Motheo, WBHO sign agreement
Motheo, WBHO sign agreement
Three major black-owned contractors have signed a development agreement with WBHO... read
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#BestofBiz 2016: Building
#BestofBiz 2016: Building
We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2016 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views. Discover the most read content on Bizcommunity's Building & Construction portal over the past year below. read
Architecture & Design
Do's and dont's in making the office Christmasy
Do's and dont's in making the office Christmasy

Linda Trim

Every year across South Africa offices have a go at making the workplace Christmasy, often with cringeworthy results... read
Highgate Mall to undergo revamp, set to become speciality mall
Highgate Mall to undergo revamp, set to become speciality mall
Highgate Mall, to be renamed Home of Africa, is set to become a home and décor mall, creating over 2000 jobs and housing 250 international and local brands after the revamp... read
Rise of the glass giants: how modern cities are forcing skyscrapers to evolve
Rise of the glass giants: how modern cities are forcing skyscrapers to evolve

David Nicholson-Cole

Slick, glassy skyscrapers cast their shadows over the streets and spaces of cities all over the world... read
Greenacres R420m revamp to be completed midyear
Greenacres R420m revamp to be completed midyear
VA International Architects are nearing completion of the mammoth two-year, R420m upgrade of the Greenacres Shopping Centre... read
Building Materials & Equipment
Cement manufacturers seek additives that help differentiate in market
Cement manufacturers seek additives that help differentiate in market
According to Frost & Sullivan, a rapid increase in cement production and low penetration rates are driving high growth in the South African and Nigerian cement additives markets... read
Invicta CE resigns after just less than two years at helm
Invicta CE resigns after just less than two years at helm

Andries Mahlangu

Invicta announced on Monday, 5 December, that its CE Charles Walters had resigned, with effect from January... read
Construction & Engineering
Construction sector confidence lowest since 2012
Construction sector confidence lowest since 2012
The FNB/BER Civil Confidence Index lost 17 index points to 35 in 4Q2016, meaning that, barring 1Q2016 when the index was at 28, confidence is at its lowest since the beginning of 2012. The fall in the index means that 65% of respondents are dissatisfied with prevailing business conditions... read
Group Five partners with UK's Aberdeen
Group Five partners with UK's Aberdeen

Andries Mahlangu

Group Five has partnered with a subsidiary of the UK-based Aberdeen Asset Management, as the JSE-listed engineering and construction group seeks to bolster its offshore profit line... read
Property Development
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R250m centre for Constantia

Dave Chambers

Cape Town's upmarket suburb of Constantia is poised to get a new shopping centre and two traffic circles... read
Sustainable Development
Government works to build six million houses
Government works to build six million houses
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini says government has its eyes firmly fixed on the target of delivering six million houses and subsidies to beneficiaries by 2019... read
Kouga Wind Farm recognised for good environmental management practice
Kouga Wind Farm recognised for good environmental management practice
Kouga Wind Farm, situated outside Oyster Bay, has been recognised for its strides in environmental management good practice... read
Salvaging construction waste with StoneCycling
Salvaging construction waste with StoneCycling

Emile Uys

This Dutch startup collects demolition debris and recycles it for new buildings... read
Charging up developing nations with solar energy
Charging up developing nations with solar energy

Emile Uys

Morocco, Singapore and India are investing heavily in the abundant power of the sun... read
When planning falls short: the challenges of informal settlements
When planning falls short: the challenges of informal settlements

Hesam Kamalipour et al.

Informal settlements house around one-quarter of the world's urban population... read
Utilities
If coal power is becoming redundant, why are the Big Banks investing in it?
If coal power is becoming redundant, why are the Big Banks investing in it?
Environmental rights advocacy groups are questioning why major banks and state entities are investing in new-build coal-powered power station... read
Africa
Multi-billion dollar memorandum of agreements signed by Oilserv, Tianjin Energy, and Alpha Group to develop Nigeria's oil and gas infrastructure. (Source: Alpha Capital International)
Multi-billion dollar MoAs signed to develop Nigeria's oil, gas infrastructure
Eight memorandums of agreement (MOA) were signed recently in Abuja, Nigeria for the development of several multi-billion dollar investment and infrastructure projects, including crude oil and gas pipelines, oil refineries, port, highways, and railways, across Nigeria... read
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Three challenges of expanding your business in Africa
Three challenges of expanding your business in Africa

Bruce van Wyk

Africa is rising. According to the latest figures in the 2016 African Economic Outlook report, annual GDP growth rose to above 5% between 2001 and 2014... read
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Empathy as a starting point to innovation

Amandine Robin

Often, the orientations to innovation are determined by the skills existing in a factory at a given time. Typically, the company owns a technical know-how and uses it to improve or transform its products... read
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