Building & Construction News

City to host public information day on Kloof Road repair progress

• 15-11-2024
• Cape Town Etc

The City’s Urban Mobility Directorate has announced an upcoming public information day aimed at updating residents and stakeholders on essential repair work for a section of Kloof Road, which was severely damaged by a Level-9 storm in Septem...

Teraco to wheel clean energy from Free State to Cape Town

• 15-11-2024
• Moneyweb

Grid capacity already secured, with construction of 120MW solar plant now underway.

Teraco, owner of Africa’s largest data centre, has started construction on a 120MW solar power plant in the Free State that is expected to go ...

Drastic measures introduced to address infrastructure project delays

• 15-11-2024
• Moneyweb

Including a ‘straightforward’ blacklisting policy and recordings of decisions made in the awarding of contracts.

The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) is implementing several drastic measures to overhaul th...

Eastern Cape to get new coastal route

• 15-11-2024
• Daily Southern & East African Tourism Update

CONSTRUCTION on a coastal route between East London and Port Elizabeth is under way, in a R142m project that hopes to see a boost in tourism and development in the region. The road will run 30km, from the East London Airport to Lilyvale.

Lower uMkhomazi water scheme progressing

• 14-11-2024
• KZN Industrial News

SUBSTANTIAL progress has been made on the Lower uMkhomazi Water Scheme project, according to Water and Sanitation Minister, Pemmy Majodina. The Minister, along with Deputy Minister Sello Seitlholo, and uMngeni-uThukela Water Board members conducte...

New R1 billion shopping mall coming to one of the oldest towns in the Western Cape

• 14-11-2024
• Business Tech

Durbanville, one of the Western Cape’s oldest towns, is set to welcome a transformative addition to its landscape with the construction of the Groot Phesantekraal Shopping Centre.

This highly anticipated development by Abland, a pr...

CDM’s Teffo hands over contractors for water projects

• 14-11-2024
• Capricorn FM

Capricorn District Municipality Executive Mayor Mamedupi Teffo says the handover of contractors for water projects in three villages in Lepelle Nkumpi Local Municipality, marks the start of efforts to end the water woes for over 13 ...

uMngeni starts work on storm water drain

• 14-11-2024
• The Witness

Howick residents, especially those who use Karkloof Road regularly, have welcomed the project and said they were happy it was being sorted out before it was too late.

uMngeni Municipality has started fixing a structural failure caused by...

Off track: The Rea Vaya Sandton eyesore and the R770k toilet

• 13-11-2024
• News 24

• The Atholl Square Rea Vaya station in Sandton has been idle for years, racking up bills for security guards and a mobile toilet.
• It is one of two unfinished stations in the Rea Vaya network....
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Proposed Hilton development Sparks environmental concerns

• 13-11-2024
• The Witness

The proposed residential plot is still in its initial stages and an environmental assessment is currently underway.

A recent assessment for a proposed residential development in the Hilton, Town Bush, and Ferncliffe areas has raised conc...