Builders Newsletter - Edition 50

We recently had a Q&A session with previous Excellence in Construction winner Chris Brown of Smith & Winfield, and found out what winning this prestigious award meant to him and his organisation.

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We would like to personally thank everybody who participated in this competition. To be honest, we were overwhelmed with the response and received over 110 emails.

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Reinforcing steel (rebar) suppliers and manufacturers have now begun defaulting on their contracts with construction companies to deliver processed (cut and bent) rebar, due to the nation wide shortage of raw material available from the local steel mills.

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The Zululand Observer, the weekly newspaper servicing the Zululand area approached our Master Builders KwaZulu-Natal Empangeni office on behalf the local remedial school, to assist with a renovation project in order to create an additional classroom.  

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Please note that the Minister of Labour has in  Government Gazette 34186 under GoN 299 on 8 April 2011 published a correction notice to the Draft Driven Machinery Regulations as per Government Notice No. 34052 published in the government gazette dated 4 March 2011.

Association member Greg Downs of Greg Downs Construction, was recently the focus of an article on page 3 of The Natal Witness titled "Boughton's  Pride; Residents Hail Traffic Island Facelift"

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Minister of Labour has recently promulgated a set of new Electrical Machinery Regulations. These regulations were published in terms of section 43 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993 (Act No. 85 of 1993) and will come into effect from 1 July 2011.

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In his book "Understanding the Economy", Phillip Mohr who was Professor of Economics at UNISA from 1984 to 2007, used the following famous quotations about economics.

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