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Home maintenance and upgrades show further improvement
The third quarter of 2015 saw further improvement in agent perceptions of home maintenance and upgrades... read


Building Materials & Equipment
Environmentally-friendly aluminium processing plant complies with international legislation
Blue Willow Aluminium in Cape Town has built an automated processing plant in line with international best practice which is hexavalent chromium-free for environmentally-friendly pre-treatment manufacturing... read
Cashbuild growth defies flagging mood
Cashbuild, SA's largest retailer of construction materials, recorded double-digit revenue growth in the three months to September despite falling confidence among builders over the same period... read
Smart Buildings
Now is the time to deploy smart building technologies

Neil Cameron

The grid - the infrastructure that delivers electricity from our local utility and municipalities to buildings - is over-taxed... read
Sustainable Development
GCIP South Africa honours clean technology enterprises
The Global Cleantech Innovation Programme (GCIP) South Africa recently acknowledged the inventive work of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) at the annual awards ceremony which was held at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria... read
How big data and The Sims are helping us to build the cities of the future

Alison Heppenstall and Nick Malleson

By 2050, the United Nations predicts that around 66% of the world's population will be living in urban areas. It is expected that the greatest expansion will take place in developing regions... read
Utilities
Despite threats, Africa is looking to nuclear with Russia and China's help

Scott Firsing

Many African countries are in the grip of a nuclear fad. They believe nuclear energy will bring with it an international currency of prestige... read
Call for Papers for POWER-GEN Africa, DistribuTECH Africa
The fourth annual POWER-GEN Africa and third DistribuTECH Africa conference and exhibition, have announced the Call for Papers for both events, with a deadline for abstract submissions of 6 January 2016... read
South African students visit Russian nuclear plants
Students and postgraduate students of South African universities, winners in the national competition in the area of peaceful use of nuclear technologies, together with their thesis advisers recently visited Russian nuclear enterprises... read
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