Building & Construction News

Free Online Tendering Seminars:

29-05-2020
Taranis

Free Online Tendering Seminars: Tuesday 2 June 2020: | 12h00-12h30 | Understanding Tendering for Government Contracts! The Seminar will cover three main areas of Tendering i.e. The Four Stages of the Tendering Process, The Different Tender P...

Zimbabwe: More Effort Needed to Upgrade Water Infrastructure

28-05-2020
All Africa News

Eight years ago, more than 1 000 delegates from all African countries gathered in Cairo, Egypt to find ways of promoting cooperation, security, and ensure poverty reduction among member states through adequate provision of water. The meeting was m...

MBA North launches new services to help construction get back to work

27-05-2020
Bizcommunity.com

Reopening construction sites after the lockdown is set to be a challenging process, says Gerhard Roets, construction health and safety manager at Master Builders Association North (MBA North). In order to help the region's sector prepare for a return...

The Case for Making South Africa’s Coal Fields a Renewable Energy Hub

27-05-2020
SA People

South Africa is currently one of the world’s largest carbon emitters. And it’s increasingly being viewed as a pariah that isn’t contributing as much as it could to the international fight against global warming and climate change. With a lot of other...

Renewable electricity suppliers gaining ground in South Africa

26-05-2020
Tech Central

We can expect the debate about the future of electricity supply to reignite after energy regulator Nersa granted Eskom approval to increase prices to recover past expenditure to the tune of R13.3-billion and warnings that load shedding is bound to re...

Lockdown Level 3: What’s in store

26-05-2020
Daily Maverick

South Africa’s response to Covid-19 will significantly change under Alert Level 3 as all but high-risk sectors of the economy will be allowed to resume operating. The National Coronavirus Command Council is due to unpack its plans on Tuesday but here...

FULL SPEECH: Ramaphosa outlines how life in Level 3 lockdown will look

25-05-2020
The Citizen

Fellow compatriots, Ri perile, Dumelang, Sanibonani, Molweni, Ndi madekwana, Gooie naand, Good evening. It is exactly 10 weeks since we declared a national state of disaster in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Since then, we have implem...

SA definitely moving to Level 3 lockdown 'soon', the question is how - deputy minister

22-05-2020
Fin 24

Government is in the advanced stages of consultation with health and economic experts which will result in the country 'soon' shifting to Level 3 lockdown, according to Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry and Economic development, Fikile Majola. "T...

Lockdown forcing construction sector to think more strategically about tech adoption

21-05-2020
Bizcommunity.com

According to the results of a survey conducted by Construction Computer Software (CCS) amongst its clients, stakeholders and industry partners, the lockdown has compelled the construction industry to think more strategically about the adoption of tec...

Construction industry capacity only operating at roughly 15% in Level 4

20-05-2020
IOL

CAPE TOWN - Some 50 percent of construction industry capacity should be operational in Level 4 of the lockdown, but the actual percentage is much lower because necessary, but lengthy new health and safety administration issues have prevented the comp...