The Concrete Manufacturers Association (CMA) has published the sixth edition of its ‘Precast Concrete Pipe and Portal Culvert’ handbook. Aimed at municipal and consulting engineers, the handbook provides designers of concrete pipes and culverts with basic guidelines on most aspects of selection, specification and testing. Add a comment...
The PG Bison 2013 Competition will welcome back past judges Patrick Henry of MDS Architecture, Phill Mashabane of Mashabane Rose Associates and President of The South African Council for the Architectural Profession (SACAP), Nthabi Taukobong of Ditau Interiors, and Callie van der Merwe of The Design Partnership. The Panel welcomes a new addition, Kate Otten of Kate Otten Architects. Add a...
The Competition Commission’s head of advocacy and stakeholder relations, Trudi Makhaya, says they expect to reach settlements with most applicants who partook in the fast-track settlement project for the construction industry by the end of this year. If so, the process, launched in February 2011, would have taken almost three years, leaving scores more industry players who did not partic...
The latest FNB/Bureau for Economic Research (BER) Building Confidence Index Survey, indicates confidence in the building sector rose from 26 index points in the third quarter of 2012 to 32 in the fourth. Commenting on this Richard Williams, CEO of the Gordon Verhoef and Krause (GVK) group of companies, says, “The rise in the confidence index seems to be driven by suppliers rather than other...
Catherine Houska, a leading international expert on the use of stainless steel in architecture, will be in South Africa in February to present a series of workshops. Add a comment...
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