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Siyabonga Mbanjwa Energy is a sector of our economy closely watched by local and international investors...read |
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Alison Groves According to the latest United Nations Economic Commission for Africa report, Africa is the fastest urbanising region after Asia. The report also highlights that despite the current slowdown in many African economies...read | ![#BizTrends2018: Enter Generation Z: Fusing the old with the new](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423861-300x156.jpg?2)
Hanlie Turner Traditionally the domain of a serious set of older engineers, cement / concrete technology and civil engineering are currently undergoing a slow but steady transition...read |
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![#BizTrends2018: Recycling of wastewater is the key to water security](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/424366-120x120.jpg?2) | Theunis Coetzer Could it be that recycling the water we have is the key to water availability relief... read | | ![#BizTrends2018: Smart disruption - the grid of 2018](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423416-120x120.jpg?2) | Vinny Perumal The famous revolutionary hall of fame has a new name - technology. It changes regimes, rules and industries. It transforms the traditional, it disrupts the conventional and it redefines the future... read | | ![#BizTrends2018: Trends in HVAC and smart building technology](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423904-120x120.jpg?2) | Neil Cameron Over the last decade we have seen a continual refinement in heating ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) and building technology... read | | ![#BizTrends2018: Construction industry to improve technology use and safety](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423855-120x120.jpg?2) | Tommy Strydom Although the construction industry in South Africa is facing a downturn in the economy, it remains an important industry because it fulfils a major role in economic growth and infrastructure development... read | | ![Image source:](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423909-120x120.jpg?2) | Larry Feinberg 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 construction professionals... read | |
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![Construction sector confidence low, but not all hope is lost](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423675-120x120.jpg?2) | With reports of construction sector confidence plummeting to 17-year lows, the Building and Property Economics Committee of the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors (ASAQS) says investors and developers should not lose complete faith in the industry... read |
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![Chinese production cuts buoy ArcelorMittal SA shares](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423750-120x120.jpg?2) | Charlotte Mathews Shares in ArcelorMittal SA took some comfort on Thursday, 21 December, from a forecast that Chinese production restrictions would help to lift global steel prices in the first quarter of 2018, although temporarily... read |
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![Inhouse demonstrates power of interior design with two variations at new development](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423428-120x120.jpg?2) | Commissioned by the Berman Bros Group (BBG) to design the interiors of a series of apartments situated in a new development in Sea Point, design studio Inhouse created two distinct styles to cater for different tastes... read |
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![FWJK awards R535m construction contract to Concor Western Cape](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423525-120x120.jpg?2) | FWJK recently announced that it has awarded a construction contract worth R535m to Concor Western Cape for the construction of its new 16 on Bree residential development in Cape Town's city centre... read |
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![Four-star Green Star certification for KZN Department of Education: Ugu District Office](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423880-120x120.jpg?2) | 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)... read |
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![Cape Town action group slams planned drought tariff](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423793-120x120.jpg?2) | Nomahlubi Jordaan A Cape Town action group has slammed the City of Cape Town's proposed water tariff... read |
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![Crisis as Eastern Cape drought deepens](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/424182-120x120.jpg?2) | Shaun Gillham Fears over the Eastern Cape's crippling drought predicament have escalated alarmingly as two towns near Nelson Mandela Bay run out of water fast... read |
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![Mali's cultural capital shows how citizen-centred development can trump gentrification](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423752-120x120.jpg?2) | Jenny Mbaye In the first week of every February, the streets of Ségou in Mali come to life... read |
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![Artist impression of Colombo International Financial City](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/424070-120x120.png?2) | China will invest $1bn in the construction of three 60-storey buildings at a mega-project near Sri Lanka's main port, Colombo said Tuesday, as Beijing aims to boost its influence in the Indian Ocean... read |
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![Architecture in 2018: Look to the streets, not the sky](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/424284-120x120.jpg?2) | Sean Weiss A decade after the global economic collapse, urban development is booming... read |
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