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Pretoria, 30 March 2022. COENG Consulting and Construction Engineers recently celebrated its 14th birthday celebration at a company event where the firm’s growing team of professionals came together. COENG has done extremely well in terms of market growth in recent years, having significantly increased its market share while fostering on-going business relationships with big businesses in South Africa....

March 2022: While the world moves towards increasing innovation, there is a keen focus across industries on ‘new’ products, ‘new’ processes and ‘new’ solutions to invest in. But innovation in the construction industry doesn’t necessarily need to follow unfamiliar – and sometimes risky and costly – routes. Peikko South Africa is changing up the local construction industry with a modern take on traditional construction methods....

March 2022. The Social Housing Regulatory Authority (SHRA) works towards a future South Africa where citizens live a good quality life in well-located and affordable rental homes. “However, we cannot achieve this vision without social housing institutions (SHIs) who are ready to undertake and oversee the development of social housing projects,” says John Mofokeng, SD&T Specialist for the SHRA. “To this end, we have been investing our efforts into making the SHI accreditation process more accessible and inclusive,” reports Mofokeng....

14 March 2022. The South African Institute of Valuers (SAIV) has announced that applications are open for their 2022 Mentorship Programme, as of 7 March until 30 April 2022. The mentorship programme, now in its third year, aims to match young valuers with accredited professionals and open new personal and professional development pathways....

14 March 2022 Commenting on the announcement of the Gauteng provincial budget, the CEO of Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA), Chris Campbell, said he welcomed the budget’s focus on critical infrastructure spend, but called on the Gauteng Government to pay urgent attention to addressing issues within the tender processes. Otherwise, many important projects would not be delivered on time and to specification, he warned. ...

11 March 2022: Experienced engineers are crucial within such a critical and technically-minded sector such as engineering, and it is consequently not surprising that the industry players place a premium on the employment of those who have the years under their belts.     ...