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Chemical Seta to fund major research projects with over R1.6m
The Chemical Industry Education and Training Authority (CHIETA) will be funding two South African universities with R1,647,500 this year, supporting research and innovation in pharmaceuticals,...
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Infrastructure spend: insights from the effect of a bridge across the Zambezi...
Investments in infrastructure - such as roads - typically aim to reduce transport costs, stimulate trade and make new production activities viable. Across sub-Saharan Africa, the need for such...
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UP's Liam Ullrich selected regional winner in 34th Corobrik architectural awards
Liam Ullrich from the University of Pretoria has been selected as a regional winner in the 34th Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year Awards for his thesis Life in Death: Addressing heterotopic...
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Next step in remote working likely to be a new hybrid workspace model
The current response to Covid-19 and working from home has many unanticipated pitfalls. The dialogue around culture and new ways of working has been accelerated by Covid-19, which makes this an...
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Non-residential contractors pessimistic as building confidence slips in 1Q2021
According to the latest FNB/BER Building Confidence Index, more than 70% of respondents are dissatisfied with prevailing business conditions. After rising to 29 in 4Q2020, the index shed two points to...
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How technology offers a very real solution to SA's aging water infrastructure
The spotlight is again placed on the country's water infrastructure in the wake of National Water Week. To understand the current water infrastructure status quo, it's important to take a closer look...
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DRC to host inaugural Smart City Conference, Open Innovation Challenge
Spearheaded by Congo Bulaya, a subsidiary initiative of the Centre d'Innovation de Lubumbashi (CINOLU), the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will host its virtual Smart City Conference from 16 to 18...
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Take your brand and business marketing to the next level
Unlike other channels, Press Office newsrooms on Bizcommunity are an owned asset for brands, the place where PR or brand communications teams can communicate whatever, however and whenever they...
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New Lanseria Smart City just 'papering over the cracks'
According to Paragon Group director Henning Rasmuss, with South African cities and towns fast deteriorating at an infrastructure and service delivery level, the new Lanseria Smart City revealed by...
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World's first space hotel set to open in 2027
California-based company Gateway Foundation has revealed plans to build the first space hotel, expected to open in 2027. Called Voyager Station, the project will be built by Orbital Assembly...
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7th National Furniture Design Competition winners announced
Ian Perry from Durban-based furniture manufacturer Homewood won in the Established Manufacturers category while Mikhayla Peterson, Amukelani Mathebula and Michael Sushan from the University of...
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#StartupStory: Yakha, an online marketplace for the local built environment
Fresh to the local startup scene is Yakha, a new digital marketplace for the African built environment which aims to simplify the procurement process of African architecture, construction and furniture...
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Like Covid-19, water use requires permanent behaviour change
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has resulted in many fault lines emerging in our societies. One of the key ones is that of behaviour change, where we have seen the emergence of two waves of increase in...
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Smart cities promote best practice in urban sustainability
According to Carshif Talip, expertise leader, Urban Planning and Land Infrastructure at Zutari, a 'smart city' is much more than a city that is digitally enabled and brimming with technology. It is a...
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Innovations on the Nile over millennia offer lessons in engineering...
Africa is the continent most vulnerable to the impact of climate change. That's largely because many of its people and governments are too poor to do what's needed to cope under the expected new...
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Growing water crisis needs a collaborative solution
In just the last five years South Africa has faced two of the biggest challenges imaginable. We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic and, just two years ago, the City of Cape Town announced...
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Water from thin air: Keamogetswe Matsho is championing new environmental...
She's a 2020 Standard Bank Top Woman Young Achiever finalist and is extremely passionate about the development of Africa, building brands and uplifting startups, Keamogetswe Matsho is a woman on top of...
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New training yard handed over as water department plans to train more artisans
A partnership between South Africa and Japan will see the Department of Water and Sanitation train artisans to deal with water losses in communities.Read more... | Send to a friend
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Building owners have 14 months to identify asbestos, plan its removal
According to Indawo managing director Geoffrey Jäck, it has been a long time coming, but asbestos is now outlawed and building owners have only 14 months to plan removals, including homes, schools,...
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Ghana's Bui Dam raises concerns - again - about hydro power projects
In the early years of African independence, hydroelectricity offered the promise of modernity and development. For then President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, the Akosombo Dam in Ghana (completed in 1965),...
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