https://www.bizcommunity.com/412/493.html West Africa Building Materials news 15 Materials & Equipment news - West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/res/img/logo.gif https://www.bizcommunity.com/412/493.html en-us Sun, 02 Aug 2026 03:09:08 +0200 https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/bosch-celebrates-120-years-in-sa-with-renewed-focus-on-local-innovation-and-growth-856153a For more than a century, Bosch has been part of South Africa's industrial story. Now, as the global technology and engineering company celebrates 120 years in the country, it is reaffirming its long-term commitment to local manufacturing, skills development, sustainable technologies and industrial innovation. 1-270059 Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:56:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/188/493/236406.html The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank's investment arm, said earlier this week that it would invest €242m ($256m) in Senegal's largest integrated cement manufacturer, Sococim Industries, to boost low-carbon production. 1-236406 Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:14:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/494/234167.html In June 2022, a fire outbreak at a hospital construction site in Istanbul, Turkey, destroyed most of the newly installed medical and security devices, and injured three people. A few days later, firefighters from West Fargo in North Dakota attended a flaming construction site behind the town's Costco. And a month after that, a blaze broke out at a railway development in Stuttgart, Germany. 1-234167 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:17:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/492/234124.html Drones are already shaping the face of our cities - used for building planning, heritage, construction and safety enhancement. But, as studies by the UK's Department of Transport have found, swathes of the public have a limited understanding of how drones might be practically applied. 1-234124 Fri, 02 Dec 2022 10:03:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/209/360/232167.html German-led engineering firm CPS is building the world's tallest green building - a 28-storey apartment tower designed in hybrid timber technology. Named Burj Zanzibar, the high-rise is designed to stand 96 metres tall and would be Africa's first sustainable high-rise. 1-232167 Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:57:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/493/231501.html Romco Metals, which recycles scrap aluminium in Nigeria and Ghana, is planning to expand output by more than five times to 100,000 tonnes a year, its CEO said, and is working on a project to create green hydrogen to power its furnaces. 1-231501 Wed, 14 Sep 2022 07:56:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/640/231437.html The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has approved Saint-Gobain's greenhouse gas emission reduction targets as consistent with the organisation's new net-zero standard and the Paris Climate Agreement. Committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, Saint-Gobain is the first company in its sector worldwide to receive this approval since the introduction of the new standard at the end of last year. 1-231437 Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:57:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/157/493/229889.html Nigeria has pumped more than $8bn into Ajaokuta Steel Company, a project which began more than 40 years ago but has yet to produce one tonne of steel. 1-229889 Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:28:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/494/225564.html 3D printed concrete may lead to a shift in architecture and construction. Because it can be used to produce new shapes and forms that current technologies struggle with, it may change the centuries-old processes and procedures that are still used to construct buildings, resulting in lower costs and saved time. 1-225564 Wed, 02 Mar 2022 09:32:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment West Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/188/493/215892.html DAKAR, Senegal - Construction is booming in Dakar, where unfinished apartment blocks tower over most streets, their exposed concrete bricks a dull uniform grey. In one site, however, a building stands out - the bricks the workers are laying are made of raw, red earth. 1-215892 Mon, 17 May 2021 14:38:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Materials & Equipment West Africa