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Chinese production cuts buoy ArcelorMittal SA shares
© laurentiu_iordache – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>Shares in ArcelorMittal SA took some comfort on Thursday, 21 December, from a forecast that Chinese production restrictions would help to...
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Mali's cultural capital shows how citizen-centred development can trump...
In the first week of every February, the streets of Ségou in Mali come to life. Residents from the capital, Bamako, flock to the secondary city to escape the busyness of everyday life and absorb the...
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Cape Town action group slams planned drought tariff
© Jozsef Szasz-Fabian – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>A Cape Town action group has slammed the City of Cape Town's proposed water tariff.
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Iraq invites bids for new oil pipeline
Photo: Oilprice.com</span>BAGHDAD - Iraq's oil ministry has called for bids for the construction of a pipeline to allow oil exports to resume from the northern province of Kirkuk to neighbouring...
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Western Cape in a race to spare every drop of water
[[http://www.123rf.com/ © 123RF.com]]</span>The current water crisis in the Western Cape is well reported on, however, this will not be the last drought cycle - and steps taken now will need go a...
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Four-star Green Star certification for KZN Department of Education: Ugu...
The KZN Department of Education: Ugu District Office has received four-star Green Star SA Office Design v1.1 certification from the Green Building Council South Africa (GBCSA). Located in Port...
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Level six water restrictions in Cape Town next month
The City of Cape Town has reminded all water users that level six water restrictions will apply from 1 January 2018.
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China boosts investment in Sri Lankan mega-project
Artist impression of Colombo International Financial City</span>China will invest $1bn in the construction of three 60-storey buildings at a mega-project near Sri Lanka's main port, Colombo said...
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Crisis as Eastern Cape drought deepens
© Asawin klabma – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>Fears over the Eastern Cape's crippling drought predicament have escalated alarmingly as two towns near Nelson Mandela Bay run out of water...
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Architecture in 2018: Look to the streets, not the sky
A decade after the global economic collapse, urban development is booming.
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#BizTrends2018: Smart disruption - the grid of 2018
The generation of power is set to become the next battleground for disruption as technology and customer demand redefine parameters and expectations.
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#BizTrends2018: Construction industry to improve technology use and safety
© seoterra – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>Although the construction industry in South Africa is facing a downturn in the economy, it remains an important industry because it fulfils a major...
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#BizTrends2018: Trends in HVAC and smart building technology
© Rajesh Rajendran Nair – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>Over the last decade we have seen a continual refinement in heating ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) and building technology....
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#BizTrends2018: Enter Generation Z: Fusing the old with the new
Traditionally the domain of a serious set of older engineers, cement / concrete technology and civil engineering are currently undergoing a slow but steady transition. With smart future cities starting...
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#BizTrends2018: Recycling of wastewater is the key to water security
Could it be that recycling the water we have is the key to water availability relief for the Cape region - as opposed to imposing increasingly stricter and potentially unviable water usage restrictions...
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#BizTrends2018: Green buildings, fit for a sustainable purpose
Image source: [[www.pexels.com]]</span>According to the latest United Nations Economic Commission for Africa report, Africa is the fastest urbanising region after Asia. The report also highlights...
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#BizTrends2018: Interest in energy, water infrastructure to intensify in 2018
Energy is a sector of our economy closely watched by local and international investors. This interest will intensify in 2018, thanks to plans by government to invest R234bn in energy infrastructure...
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#BizTrends2018: Building and construction trends from a quantity surveyor...
Image source: [[www.pexels.com]]</span>The built environment is often thought of in terms of only its visible results: buildings, roads, bridges, dams, and so on. A group of lesser-known...
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#BizTrends2018: The skills shortage in the construction industry and what we...
© Leon Swart – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>We don't need to be told that we live in a divided society. According to informed observers, ours is one of the most economically polarised...
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#BizTrends2018: Upwardly mobile people want to live and work in eco-mobile...
"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transport." These are the paraphrased words uttered by Enrique Penalosa, the former Mayor of Bogotá,...
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