The Civil Engineering department at the University of Pretoria is testing Internet of Things (IoT) technology to see if it might give an...

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordan says Eskom is currently in the process of establishing a ‘Clean Energy Unit’ as a separate...

Touch-sensitive concrete was invented by Andre Broekman, a Civil Engineering PhD candidate at the University of Pretoria, and might...

Gauteng's express railway system Gautrain is working on greening its operations, and plans to have solar power solutions for its...

An inverter is a piece of equipment that provides your home’s electronic devices with an uninterrupted power supply. Essentially, it...

After Rob Niven received a Masters in Engineering and went to a United Nations summit on climate change, it got him thinking about ways...

Mpumalanga’s government has started a project to develop the province’s first post-apartheid city, and the developer told City Press that...

The City of Cape Town has launched new tenders to procure as much as 300 MW of renewable energy, Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said on...

Working with Stage Six and Échale International, Marc Thorpe Design developed a plan for sustainable, ecologically responsible housing in...

Smart locks are a new technology that is trying to make our lives easier by unlocking doors with just a simple touch of a button. They...

Using a novel polymerization process, MIT chemical engineers have created a new material that is stronger than steel and as light as...

Plastic pollution is a major problem in the world. Single-use non-recyclable plastic products surround every area of our lives and cause...

A shortage of affordable housing from both a rental and sales perspective is a reality in South Africa. The average selling price of...

A migration from paper-based to digital, which is currently being piloted, the Construction Permit Management System (CPMS) has been...

Infrastructure work at the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope site in South Africa’s Karoo is set to begin in 2022, and could see...

Carbon-negative, self-financing and scalable are just a few words to describe BillionBricks and Architecture Brio’s PowerHYDE. PowerHyde...

The biggest solar farm in South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa is Solar Capital’s De Aar project in the Northern Cape. This photovoltaic...

Scientists from Berkeley Lab developed a smart roof coating that keeps buildings warm during cold periods of weather, and cool when it...

Cape Town - The Lulalab Foundation and the Atlantis Special Economic Zone (ASEZ), with support from the City, aims to transform informal...

The 52-house Mvule Gardens project, located in Kilifi, north of Mombasa, will be developed by 14Trees in partnership with Holcim and CDC...