Are disturbances and recirculating loads pushing the limits of a processing plant? How do you lower energy costs and reduce the use of consumables? Traditional control strategies can only take you so far, states Juliano de Goes Arantes, Pavilion Account Executive at Rockwell Automation, a global leader in industrial automation and digital transformation. ...
4 May 2021: The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) believes that a professional, and accountable public service will help to eradicate inefficiencies that impact government’s vision as set out in the National Development Plan (NDP) 2030. “Only a collective effort within a supportive political, bureaucratic, technical, and leadership context will assist this change,” comments SAICE CEO, Vishaal Lutchman. Emphasising this point, the institution hosted a webinar on the Professionalisation of the Public Service last night, with a focus on how it relates to infrastructure development. Over 1100 people registered for the webinar, demonstrating the importance of the topic....
The Social Housing Regulatory Authority (SHRA) is excited to present the 2020 State of the Social Housing Report. The report provides an overview of the current state of the sector, as well as profiles the performance, transformation, successes, challenges, opportunities, and developments within the social housing sector....
28 April 2021 Consulting engineers from across Africa will assemble online next month to discuss some of the key challenges facing the construction and infrastructure sector in the region, including the Covid pandemic, climate change and corruption, at the 27th annual FIDIC Africa Infrastructure Conference. ...
South African businesses have been increasingly concerned about their data governance practices since the first whispers about the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA), also known as the POPI Act, of 2013. This was followed closely by Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2016. ...
23 April 2021 It was yet another historic moment for the South African Institute of Valuers (SAIV) when it elected its first black president at the 2021 National AGM and Seminar held on Thursday, 22 April at the Royal Pearls Hotel in Umhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal. Malusi Mthuli, former vice-president of the institute and chair of its Northern Branch will work with the branches across the country to steer the 111-year-old organization towards a path of further growth and influence in the South African built environment industry....
22 April 2021: From its humble beginnings in South Africa on the 1st of April 1921, Knight Piésold has established and grown its local operations within Southern Africa, through its offices in Namibia, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Madagascar, Swaziland, Mauritius and South Africa. ...
21 April 2021. Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) CEO Chris Campbell is questioning the decision by Government to import engineering skills when we have a current situation where our own local engineering skills in the private sector are under-utilized together with a large pool of unemployed graduates. ...
By now, we have probably all become familiar with the term “the new normal”. It is becoming an increasingly popular way to describe the disruptive effect of the Covid-19 pandemic, from the new norm of remote work, to the rise of teleconferencing, or to massive changes in shopping behaviour as everyone tries to minimise human contact. It has changed the way we organise our lives – but it is also changing how we organise our cities. There’s some food for thought....
21 April 2021: Rockwell Automation, the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, and Comau, a global leader in industrial automation and robot manufacturer, announced on 20 April that they are joining forces to give businesses worldwide vital tools to maximize manufacturing efficiencies through unified robot control solutions....