In his inaugural address as the 110th president of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE), Dr Martin van Veelen spoke of the importance of retaining engineering experience – and the wisdom that has grown with it – in government departments responsible for the country’s infrastructure, and equally, of transferring this wisdom and experience to the corps of younger engi...
It is interesting that Dulux and Plascon, both leading brands in paints, have identified almost identical themes as the underlying directive for colours in 2012. For Dulux, the theme is ‘Possibilities’; for Plascon, it is ‘Endless Possibility’. Together and independently, the themes represent a reflection of the current social climate and a response to the influence of economic, soci...
South Africa staged its National Water Week campaign from 5 to 11 March 2012 and the United Nations International World Water Day is coming up on 22 March. Ahead of the events lined up for National Water Week, the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa, called on all South Africans to make a positive contribution towards conserving and protecting the country’s water resourc...
SASFA, the Southern African Light Steel Frame Building Association, recently commissioned the Built Environment Division of the CSIR, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, to conduct a comparative thermal performance analysis for light steel frame housing and masonry housing. The research findings point to the energy efficiency of the light steel frame (LSF) house in terms of a l...
Rio +20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), is due to take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 4 to 6 June, 2012. Twenty years after the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, and ten years after the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, the UN is again bringing together governments, international institutions and major groups, including business,...
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