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SANS codes serve as benchmark for rating tool

By: Mia Breytenbach 14th February 2014 The Green Star SA Existing Building Performance rating tool (EBP Tool) aims to assess and certify an existing building’s performance while the building is in operation and is intended to influence a new segment of the South African property market; building owners and facility managers, says... →

Challenging times prompt company to enter property development market

By: Zandile Mavuso 15th November 2013 The slowdown in the availability of major infrastructure projects in the past three years has caused civils and construction company Esorfranki Construction to focus on securing housing projects in both the public and private sector. →

Software helps engineers design infrastructure projects

By: Zandile Mavuso 15th November 2013 The need for better coordination and design communication, materials, schedules, budgets and compliance across an increasingly dispersed team of stakeholders is becoming apparent, as a result of infrastructure projects becoming more complex with increasing requirements for sustainability, says... →

Collaborating to develop skills can yield economic growth

By: Zandile Mavuso 15th November 2013 The combined effort by South Africa’s government, construction specialists and building materials companies to develop skills in the construction industry by investing in educational initiatives can facilitate economic growth in the country, states building materials company Lafarge South Africa. →

Discrepancies in tendering process putting construction industry at risk

By: Zandile Mavuso 15th November 2013 The current emphasis on the procurement of consulting engineering services, based on the lowest price offered by the competing firms, has put the sustainability of the consulting engineering industry at risk, says international consulting engineering firm WSP Consulting. →

QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE WSP Consulting’s involvement with the Green Buildings Council, provides the firm with the opportunity to shape the industry in terms of setting benchmarks for good practice

Transformation in industry reliant on credible data

By: Zandile Mavuso 15th November 2013 The Construction Sector Charter Council (CSCC) believes that, to transform the construction sector, reliable data is necessary to assess the progress of and identify the barriers to transformation and to determine strategies to resolve these. →

Partnership poised to take advantage of SA’s infrastructure projects

By: Zandile Mavuso 15th November 2013 Amid multimillion-rand infrastructure projects emerging in South Africa, international construction machinery company Imer Group’s timing to partner with concrete machinery distributor Pan Mixers South Africa (PMSA) could not have been more perfect, says Imer Group area sales manager Paolo Molino. →

Construction leaning towards renewable energy projects

15th November 2013 With renewable energy and resource shortages being a concern for South Africa, most of the country’s top construction projects for 2013 are centred around renewable-energy projects, which will assist in creating jobs in the construction industry. →

PICC plan could yield long-term investments for public and private sectors

By: Zandile Mavuso 15th November 2013 The mandate of the Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating Commission (PICC) to develop a 20-year pipeline of infrastructure and construction projects allows for long-term planning and investment by public- and private-sector companies. →

Construction companies receive best projects accolades

15th November 2013 Two of engineering and construction company Murray & Roberts Construction companies has received accolades at the 2013 Construction World’s Best Projects awards ceremony, held in June in New York, the US, that recognises projects across the entire construction industry. →

Tax fraud rampant in construction industry – analyst

By: Yolandi Booyens 15th February 2013 Tax evasion has been highlighted as a deeply rooted issue in the construction industry – one of the most competitive industries in the South African economy – states credit solutions provider Coface South Africa lead analyst Saijil Singh. The South African Revenue Service (Sars) announced in May... →

Combined technology solution a first in SA

By: Yolandi Booyens 15th February 2013 Engineering company Royal HaskoningDHV (formerly SSI Engineers & Environmental Consultants) is the first South African firm to introduce the Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) methodology supported by Integration-room (I-room) technology on the continent. , The VDC methodology provides time,... →

Firm assists in changing the face of Angola’s capital

By: Yolandi Booyens 15th February 2013 The initial public works phase of the Baia de Luanda project should be completed by the beginning of this year, engineering and development consultant Smec reports. When completed, the project will positively impact on the daily lives of the people of Luanda and it is expected to continue for... →

Cesa signs MoU with Prasa to assist with SIP7 projects

By: Yolandi Booyens 15th February 2013 To ensure the successful outcome of its SIP7 projects, the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Consulting Engineers South Africa (Cesa) and the South African Black Technical and Allied Careers Organisation (Sabtaco). →

Changing lives through housing development

15th February 2013 Consulting engineering firm Gibb has been awarded the civil engineering contract for the third phase of Cape Town’s Joe Slovo housing development project. →

Manufacturer develops road binding cement

By: Gia Costella 15th February 2013 Meeting the need for dedicated soil stabilising cement →

Company sees 2013 as one of most successful years

15th February 2013 As the main contractor on State-owned power utility Eskom’s Kusile coal-fired power station project, the power utility’s second most advanced new build, Esorfranki Civils was the first contractor to be recognised for achieving one-million lost-time injury free man-hours in August 2012. →

Quarry industry gaining momentum owing to infrastructure development and legal compliance

By: Yolandi Booyens 15th February 2013 Feedback from member companies of the Aggregate and Sand Producers Association of Southern Africa (Aspasa) reflect that the quarry industry gained momentum in 2012, owing to an increase in infrastructure development with a positive industry outlook expected for 2013. Government, at the end of... →

Construction company has hope for 2013

By: Yolandi Booyens 15th February 2013 The persistence of suicidal pricing from many construction contractors desperate to obtain work, restricts the ability of more prudent contractors to secure even low-margin work, states construction company Gordon Verhoef and Krause (GVK) CEO Richard Williams. This has resulted in the liquidation... →

E-tolling delay holding up freeway projects

By: Yolandi Booyens 15th February 2013 Delays caused by public opposition to the implementation of e-tolling are a great concern to the South African National Roads Agency SOC Limited (Sanral) and the agency has experienced resulting loss in revenue, which has led to the roll-out of other planned phases of the Gauteng Freeway... →

Proper understanding of law necessary in industry

By: Yolandi Booyens 15th February 2013 Certain sections of legislation, including the Project and Construction Management Professions Act of 2000, aimed at regulating the South African construction industry, are poorly drafted owing to inconsistencies and incoherencies which exist within and in-between the various laws which have been... →

Construction of Botswana diamond technology park set to start this month

By: Jade Davenport 4th August 2006 Work on the civil infrastructure for the new $50-million diamond technology park in Gabarone, Botswana, is set to begin this month month. →

Lesotho case shows that the corruptor is as guilty as the corrupted

By: Martin Zhuwakinyu 30th July 2004 The conviction of international civil-engineering consulting firms and contractors on charges of bribing their way to lucrative contracts on the multibillion-rand Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) gives the lie to the perception that corruption is a Third-World phenomenon and that... →

Group Five completes Sasol projects

26th May 2004 Broad-based construction and infrastructural company Group Five recently completed three large-scale contracts for Sasol, involving work on the world’s largest air separation unit (ASU), a gas pipe and housing units. →

Rainprop to build R500m DTI campus

9th September 2003 A public private partnership (PPP) agreement to design, build, finance and operate a new R500-million head office campus of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), in Pretoria, has been signed between the DTI, the Department of Finance, the City of Tshwane and empowered consortium Rainprop. →

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