Construction, Energy and Infrastructure (1449)
A group of SA professionals is launching BuildSafe South Africa in order to improve overall health, safety and welfare within the construction industry.
The prospect of having a nuclear power station built in your back yard is not appealing, it is not surprising that residents of the Kouga area in the Eastern Cape…
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Rural development and land reform minister Gugile Nkwinti is impressed with progress on the Nelson Mandela Legacy Bridge, which will link key Transkei towns.
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Esorfranki on Thursday advised that it is in negotiations to acquire the business of a development company with rights as the "turnkey developer/contractor" for an integrated mixed-use, affordable housing development…
The composite building confidence has lifted in the fourth quarter 2011 after holding steady in the preceding period, according to First National Bank and the Bureau for Economic Research.
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Group Five says that the African story has started to stretch beyond mining for the group, while the outlook in SA remains challenging.
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The cement industry may be expecting an end to the construction sector’s downturn, but the ability of Afrisam, its second-biggest producer, to continue operating is 'under threat'.
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The construction sector is unlikely to take much comfort from government’s National Development Plan, it states that investment in public infrastructure should be stepped up.
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South African cement maker PPC looks north to opportunities in Africa, even as more competition prepares to pile into the local market
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PPC advised that following better than expected trading conditions, its earnings EPS and HEPS for the year ended September 2011 are expected to be between 21% and 24% lower.
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Construction firm Basil Read says it has been awarded a contract to design, build, operate and transfer an airport on the Island of St Helena.
Do you remember all those promises about potholes in our roads being fixed at the beginning of the previous financial year: the homeless bathing in them; cars disappearing into them?
Protech Khuthele Holdings advised that its headline earnings per share and earnings per share for the six months ended August 2011 would decline by between 35% - 40% and 50%-…
Murray & Roberts Holdings says its expected loss for the Gorgon Pioneer Materials Offloading Facility on Barrow Island, Western Australia, has widened by an estimated R520m.
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Senior railwaymen have called for state funds to be set up to maintain Africa’s rail infrastructure systems, says SARA executive director Bernard Dzawanda.
SA's monopoly energy market is set for a major facelift, with international companies braced to enter the market through the long-awaited nuclear programme.
The disparity between the lowest and highest paid employees in the construction industry is still stark, despite the attention that executive pay received in the aftermath of the global financial…
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Although the FNB/BER construction confidence index remained low, construction activity picked up and tendering competition eased relative to the previous six months
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Eskom CEO Brian Dames has expressed his 'disappointment' with industrial group Hitachi over the delay in the building of the boilers for the important Meduphi power station.
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Erbacon has announced a 14.6% rise in group revenue from continuing operations to R553.2m for the half year ended August.
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