In addition to celebrating excellence, the 2011 Annual Excellence in Construction Awards ceremony was also the platform where it was announced that a new Executive Director, Vikashnee Harbhajan will take over .....

Brian Bruce will be retiring as the Chief Executive Officer of Murray & Roberts at the end of June 2011 after a career span of 44 years with the group.

The 110th Annual General Meeting of the Association will be held at 17:30 on Tuesday, 14 June 2011, at the Master Builders Centre, 40 Essex Terrace, Westville.

Keynote address by the President of Master Builders South Africa at the Building Industry Crisis Summit held on Kempton Park on 9 February 2011.

The issuing of licenses for the mining of aggregates and sand is of critical importance to the construction sector and the economy in general, said Nico Pienaar, Director of the Aggregate and Sand Association of South Africa (ASPASA).

Solidarity Trade Union is claiming that LAFARGE is planning to retrench 13% of the workers at its Lichtenburg plant.

Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana denied that the proposed amendments to the Basic Conditions of Employment and Labour Relations Acts are shoddily written and that the Cabinet had refused to accept it.

As always, it has been an exciting year with its share of challenges, highlights and lowlights.

In this article we will start to cover the technical aspects as required by the NHBRC “HOME BUILDERS MANUALS” as well as “SABS 0400 (SANS 10400 is not yet published)

It is that time of the year again where we are opening the window period for entries into the Excellence in Construction Awards. 2010 sees the sixth consecutive year in which we are running the programme and it has evolved to become a well known benchmark