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building and construction

02 Dec 2020

Greening the inner-city through massive-small impact

By Staff Writer

Samson Moraba, Chairperson of the Board at TUHF and Sqiniseko Mbatha, Financial Analyst at TUHF, share their views on the importance of adopting a green building approach to urban regeneration. There is much debate in the market – from science fraternities to professional services firms and environmentalists – on the benefits that green and sustainable building principles promote. TUHF, a member of the Green Building Council...
20 Mar 2020

COVID-19 in SA construction and built environment

By Staff Writer

On the 15th of March 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation with regards to the Covid-19 outbreak, this comes shortly after the declaration of the coronavirus as a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. The President has declared the National State of Disaster, subsequently outlining a number of emergency measures to be implemented...
28 Jan 2020

a.b.e. implements “best practice” to cope with construction storms

By Staff Writer

Building industry veteran, a.b.e. Construction Chemicals has introduced a policy of ‘best practice’ to maintain its leading position in the South African market, says Rob Winter, general manager of the Chryso Southern Africa subsidiary. The first stage of the modernisation of production by a.b.e. in 2019 called for an investment of about R3.5 million and...
19 Sep 2019

AI in the Construction Industry

By Staff Writer

AI, short for Artificial Intelligence can be an asset to the construction industry. Companies that have embraced digitization and artificial intelligent systems have seen significant growth in success and efficiency. How can this be achieved? Construction Designs 3D planning revolutionised the construction design and nowadays with Building Information Modelling (BIM), the process is transformed further....
17 Sep 2019

Concrete in high-rise construction

By Staff Writer

SIKA discusses the future of concrete in high-rise construction. The architectural engineering practice of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has designed the tallest residential building in the large-scale Hudson Yards development. The company’s Associate Director of Structural Engineering, Preetam Biswas, talks about the challenges of high-density construction, and the role played by concrete and leading suppliers...
26 Jun 2018

Weak activity continues to weigh on sentiment in the construction sector

By Janice Roberts

The FNB/BER Civil Confidence Index gained 3 points to register a level of 15 in 2Q2018. The sustained low confidence is explained by a deterioration in almost all of the underlying indicators, most notably construction activity and tendering competition. In summary, the civil construction sector remains under duress with little, if any, improvement likely over...
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