The topic of business ethics is an ever-growing feature of business school courses, boardroom discussions, and corporate onboarding programmes. Consumers and employees are increasingly seeking ethical companies to associate with, to the point where ‘ethics’ have become a selling point – a buzzword. But why must there be a distinction between ethics, and business ethics? Your ethics kick in when you wake up, not when you get to your desk....
Moretele, 10 May 2022. Multi-disciplinary Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCm) firm, COENG Consulting and Construction Engineers, is excited to be associated with the Moretele South Bulk Water Supply Scheme Pipeline Project. The project was officially commissioned in Hammanskraal in the North West Province, on Thursday, 5 May 2022....
May 2022: The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) calls on industry bodies, the engineering fraternity, and the private sector in South Africa to heed the call to support the humanitarian disaster in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) following the widespread flooding that impacted the province last week due to heavy rains....
29 April 2022. The South African Institute of Valuers (SAIV) has applauded the recent re-accreditation of three Wits University programmes in the property valuation profession. “This move is sure to benefit the industry and will see an increased number of professionals enter the market in the coming years,” reports Lerato Pooe, SAIV General Manager....
April 2022: With South Africa’s young and growing population comes the need for civil society to cater for this growth. “The building and construction sector – infamous for project delays – must ensure it is equipped to meet deadlines and client requirements, to cater for the needs of our ever-changing country. Drawn out, inefficient and sometimes unsafe building methods should be reconsidered in favour of fit-for-purpose, efficient construction processes.” This is according to Daniel Petrov, MD of Peikko South Africa, as he discusses the construction business landscape in South Africa....
Cyber criminals are typically able to move faster than companies. This means you need to know where your vulnerabilities are and where the likely threats will come from....
April 2022: South Africa’s housing shortfall stands at approximately 2 million homes. At the same time, the country needs sustainable job creation as well as transformation. The social housing industry has the potential to contribute by supporting new and upcoming social housing institutions (SHIs) and helping them roll out new social housing developments. In light of this, the Social Housing Regulatory Authority (SHRA) has implemented new measures which will assist and support the new SHIs to enter the market, equipped with the right skills....
Referro Systems – a distribution company for many of the world’s leading electrical, automation and global software and hardware brands – recently completed a project for a large iron ore mining operation in the Northern Cape, where the team leveraged their experience and long-standing client relationship to see the solution to success. The complex multi-million rand project involved the supply of intelligent motor control, control system and HMI, as well as full integration into the existing plant control system, among other interlocking for the mine’s new discard spreader conveyor system ....
The Construction Industry Development Board (cidb) is excited to announce that the Empowerment and Recognition of Women in Construction (ERWIC) Awards will return for the third time in 2022, after two successful years and dozens of high calibre entries. Entries this year are opening on 2 May and the cidb encourages women, as well as entities that promote women in the industry, to start preparing their submissions....
8 April 2022 Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) welcomes the Engineering Council of South Africa’s (ECSA) decision to refine its processes for validating CPD Category 1: Developmental Activities (courses, conferences, webinars etc.) for CPD point allocation. This has been necessitated by the many unscrupulous training providers in the industry who have been falsely advertising CPD validated training courses and conferences that often do not match their CPD points allocation. ...