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Source: Anoop Hariparsad, digital energy business unit leader for Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric.

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Modular may be the future of building in South Africa

Gerhard Britz 9 Oct 2024

Minister Kubayi to headline South African Construction Awards

Minister Kubayi to headline South African Construction Awards

4 Oct 2024

Source: Reuters.

South Africa business activity accelerates in Sept as inflation eases, PMI shows

Bhargav Acharya 4 Oct 2024

New ADvTech university mega-campus to launch in Sandton

New ADvTech university mega-campus to launch in Sandton

2 Oct 2024

SafeQuip launches lithium-ion battery fire extinguishers

SafeQuip launches lithium-ion battery fire extinguishers

SafeQuip 1 Oct 2024

Liquid cooling infrastructure at a Google data centre. Source: blog.google.com

Why liquid cooling is the future of data centre efficiency

Ben Selier 1 Oct 2024

Unlocking the blueprint for South Africa's infrastructure development

Unlocking the blueprint for South Africa's infrastructure development

Sabine Dall'Omo 30 Sep 2024

Public Works department calls for skilled applicants to fill key positions

Public Works department calls for skilled applicants to fill key positions

26 Sep 2024

Professor Hassina Mouri, a leading figure in medical geology at the University of Johannesburg, has made history as the first female and the first geoscientist from Africa to be elected President of the International Union of Geological Sciences (Image supplied)

UJ’s Prof Hassina Mouri first female geoscientist from Africa to lead global scientific body

26 Sep 2024

BluLever Education opens new 2,000sqm campus in Braamfontein

BluLever Education opens new 2,000sqm campus in Braamfontein

25 Sep 2024

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SA green hydrogen economy goes commercial

Lindsey Schutters 23 Sep 2024

Left to right: Suvern Moodley - eco consult business development at Schneider Electric, Ruth-Anne Wright - Schneider Electric Automation Student Award recipient, and Modlay Davids - Modlay Davids, talent acquisition specialist at Schneider Electric (Image supplied)

Outstanding achievement in Measurement and Control earns Ruth-Anne Wright 2024 Schneider Electric Student Award

23 Sep 2024

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Bizcommunity.com 19 Sep 2024

Milkor 380 is entirely locally developed and fabricated

Milkor puts SA back on the advanced military engineering radar

Lindsey Schutters 17 Sep 2024

Insights into the fight against the construction mafia

Insights into the fight against the construction mafia

Lindsey Schutters 17 Sep 2024

Pozzolanic materials can replace up to 30% of cement clinker and reduce energy consumption in cement production.

New standards pave way for green cement

Lindsey Schutters 10 Sep 2024

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New water resources infrastructure agency bill to boost development, finance

Calvin Nchabeleng and Makgati Makgatho 10 Sep 2024

Eric Bruggeman took Deputy Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources Judith Nemadzinga-Tshabalala on a tour of Electra Mining 2024.

Government finally showed up for Electra Mining

Lindsey Schutters 6 Sep 2024

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Payment certificates are concrete - High Court rules in construction case

Jean-Paul Rudd 5 Sep 2024

Pictured: Naadiya Moosajee. Image supplied.

Naadiya Moosajee's quest to make engineering accessible to girls across Africa

Aa-isha Hassiem 4 Sep 2024

Source: New Development Bank.

South Africa needs to step up to attract investments from the New Development Bank

Duarte da Silva 3 Sep 2024

MEIBC is seeking to expand its scope

SA engineering sector waits on MEIBC decision

Lindsey Schutters 2 Sep 2024

Stiles’ lifestyle promo: Adding artistic elegance, quality tiles and sanitaryware

Stiles’ lifestyle promo: Adding artistic elegance, quality tiles and sanitaryware

Stiles 30 Aug 2024

Source: Supplied. Theresa Huysamen, business unit manager at Duxbury Networking.

Using advanced video surveillance technology as a smart city enabler

Teresa Huysamen 29 Aug 2024

#WomensMonth: Lufuno Maishe is lifting women in engineering

#WomensMonth: Lufuno Maishe is lifting women in engineering

Lindsey Schutters 29 Aug 2024

Afribiz Invest joins forces with the South African Construction Awards

Afribiz Invest joins forces with the South African Construction Awards

27 Aug 2024

Aqunion CEO Rowan Yearsley would like to expand the solar project, but is mindful of the overinvestment risks.

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Lindsey Schutters 27 Aug 2024

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Two-stage tendering improves construction projects in South Africa

21 Aug 2024

Why over 350 organisations share their news via a Biz Press Office

Why over 350 organisations share their news via a Biz Press Office

Bizcommunity.com 19 Aug 2024

Navigating conflict in construction

Navigating conflict in construction

Cox Yeats 16 Aug 2024

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Egypt will benefit from floating nuclear plant

11 Jun 2024

Kenya’s devastating floods expose decades of poor urban planning and bad land management

Sean Avery 6 May 2024

Tororo Solar North Limited, is a special purpose vehicle company (SPV) established to develop, build, operate and maintain a 10MW Photovoltaic Power Plant in Eastern Uganda.

Red Rocket secures funding for Virginia Solar project

2 May 2024

The inaugural Global African Hydrogen Summit is slated for Windhoek, Namibia from 3-5 September 2024

Inaugural Global African Hydrogen Summit seeks to unite H2 leadership

Lindsey Schutters 30 Apr 2024

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Minister Kubayi to headline South African Construction Awards

Minister Kubayi to headline South African Construction Awards

4 Oct 2024

Source: Reuters.

South Africa business activity accelerates in Sept as inflation eases, PMI shows

Bhargav Acharya 4 Oct 2024

New ADvTech university mega-campus to launch in Sandton

New ADvTech university mega-campus to launch in Sandton

2 Oct 2024

SafeQuip launches lithium-ion battery fire extinguishers

SafeQuip launches lithium-ion battery fire extinguishers

SafeQuip 1 Oct 2024

Liquid cooling infrastructure at a Google data centre. Source: blog.google.com

Why liquid cooling is the future of data centre efficiency

Ben Selier 1 Oct 2024

Unlocking the blueprint for South Africa's infrastructure development

Unlocking the blueprint for South Africa's infrastructure development

Sabine Dall'Omo 30 Sep 2024

Public Works department calls for skilled applicants to fill key positions

Public Works department calls for skilled applicants to fill key positions

26 Sep 2024

Professor Hassina Mouri, a leading figure in medical geology at the University of Johannesburg, has made history as the first female and the first geoscientist from Africa to be elected President of the International Union of Geological Sciences (Image supplied)

UJ’s Prof Hassina Mouri first female geoscientist from Africa to lead global scientific body

26 Sep 2024

BluLever Education opens new 2,000sqm campus in Braamfontein

BluLever Education opens new 2,000sqm campus in Braamfontein

25 Sep 2024

Source: DALL-E 3

SA green hydrogen economy goes commercial

Lindsey Schutters 23 Sep 2024

Left to right: Suvern Moodley - eco consult business development at Schneider Electric, Ruth-Anne Wright - Schneider Electric Automation Student Award recipient, and Modlay Davids - Modlay Davids, talent acquisition specialist at Schneider Electric (Image supplied)

Outstanding achievement in Measurement and Control earns Ruth-Anne Wright 2024 Schneider Electric Student Award

23 Sep 2024

#BizTrends2025: Sponsorships loading

#BizTrends2025: Sponsorships loading

Bizcommunity.com 19 Sep 2024

Milkor 380 is entirely locally developed and fabricated

Milkor puts SA back on the advanced military engineering radar

Lindsey Schutters 17 Sep 2024

Insights into the fight against the construction mafia

Insights into the fight against the construction mafia

Lindsey Schutters 17 Sep 2024

Pozzolanic materials can replace up to 30% of cement clinker and reduce energy consumption in cement production.

New standards pave way for green cement

Lindsey Schutters 10 Sep 2024

Image source: El Capra from

New water resources infrastructure agency bill to boost development, finance

Calvin Nchabeleng and Makgati Makgatho 10 Sep 2024

Eric Bruggeman took Deputy Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources Judith Nemadzinga-Tshabalala on a tour of Electra Mining 2024.

Government finally showed up for Electra Mining

Lindsey Schutters 6 Sep 2024

Image source: HONGQI ZHANG –

Payment certificates are concrete - High Court rules in construction case

Jean-Paul Rudd 5 Sep 2024

Pictured: Naadiya Moosajee. Image supplied.

Naadiya Moosajee's quest to make engineering accessible to girls across Africa

Aa-isha Hassiem 4 Sep 2024

Source: New Development Bank.

South Africa needs to step up to attract investments from the New Development Bank

Duarte da Silva 3 Sep 2024

MEIBC is seeking to expand its scope

SA engineering sector waits on MEIBC decision

Lindsey Schutters 2 Sep 2024

Stiles’ lifestyle promo: Adding artistic elegance, quality tiles and sanitaryware

Stiles’ lifestyle promo: Adding artistic elegance, quality tiles and sanitaryware

Stiles 30 Aug 2024

Source: Supplied. Theresa Huysamen, business unit manager at Duxbury Networking.

Using advanced video surveillance technology as a smart city enabler

Teresa Huysamen 29 Aug 2024

#WomensMonth: Lufuno Maishe is lifting women in engineering

#WomensMonth: Lufuno Maishe is lifting women in engineering

Lindsey Schutters 29 Aug 2024

Afribiz Invest joins forces with the South African Construction Awards

Afribiz Invest joins forces with the South African Construction Awards

27 Aug 2024

Aqunion CEO Rowan Yearsley would like to expand the solar project, but is mindful of the overinvestment risks.

How Aqunion abalone farm threads the cost-effective solar needle

Lindsey Schutters 27 Aug 2024

Source: Kawser Hamid/Pexels

Two-stage tendering improves construction projects in South Africa

21 Aug 2024

Why over 350 organisations share their news via a Biz Press Office

Why over 350 organisations share their news via a Biz Press Office

Bizcommunity.com 19 Aug 2024

Broll wins Robben Island management contract

Katja Hamilton 16 Aug 2024

Navigating conflict in construction

Navigating conflict in construction

Cox Yeats 16 Aug 2024

Wynand Botha, Associate Director at BDO South Africa.

#GeorgeCollapse highlighted importance of compliance

Wynand Botha 16 Aug 2024

Slowly the State Capture prosecution is moving forward.

High Court orders liquidation of Indiwize Construction

Lindsey Schutters 15 Aug 2024

Source: Supplied. Thomas Reilly, chief executive officer of Lango.

Lango Real Estate to acquire $200m African retail portfolio

13 Aug 2024

Ennismore, Kasada sign deal for Hyde Johannesburg, Africa’s first

Ennismore, Kasada sign deal for Hyde Johannesburg, Africa’s first

13 Aug 2024

The Gcuwa River at Butterworth has been contaminated by constant flows of raw sewage for eight years, and has become a dump site. Photo: Manqulo Nyakombi / GroundUp

Eight years and counting - sewage spills into Butterworth river

Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik 13 Aug 2024

Decomposed emulsion and water. Source: BME

BME uncovers blasting solutions for potential acidic sulphate soil

13 Aug 2024

The MeerKAT radio telescope in the Northern Cape is an important part of the search for alien life in the universe.

We haven’t found aliens yet, but SA is helping the search

Lindsey Schutters 12 Aug 2024

Minister of Science and Innovation, Prof Blade Nzimande, gave the opening keynote for the first IAU general assembly on in Africa.

SA hosts historic International Astronomical Union General Assembly

Lindsey Schutters 7 Aug 2024

#WomensMonth: The rise of gender-specific PPE in construction

Lindsey Schutters 6 Aug 2024

Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Dean Macpherson, has kept up the pace of policy implementation and infrastructure improvement he adopted when taking the cabinet position.

Macpherson lauds Cape Town's fight against construction mafia

Lindsey Schutters 6 Aug 2024