A new set of international standards has just been published to enable BIM across projects and borders, benefitting the industry as a whole. The standard set is available from any national ISO member or through the ISO Store. More construction means a greater need for efficient ways of working, which is why the 3D model-based […]
Eskom has explained the power utility’s rationale for its average annual electricity increase application of 15% for three years under the fourth Multi-Year Price Determination (MYPD4) and Regulatory Clearing Account (RCA) balance application for 2018 to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA). The presentation was made to stakeholders attending the Cape Town leg […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) invites interested organisations to respond to the call for participation for its Testbed-15 Innovation Initiative. Testbed-15 aims to explore new levels of interoperable geospatial data processing with a focus on data-centric security, federated clouds, service and application discovery, portrayal, machine learning, and delta updates. OGC Testbeds are part of OGC’s […]
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is requesting information to help shape the Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Concept Development Study (MSDI- CDS), which will assess the current state of data management and exchange technologies used in the marine domain. The marine domain describes all phenomena and activities that occur within, around, or are related to, the […]
According to the Sick Benefit Fund Committee for regions A and B, employers should note that the subsidy in relation to contributions to the National Sick Fund will be applied strictly. The main collective agreement requires that employers pay their contributions to the Bargaining Council for the Electrical Industry by the fifteenth day of the […]
Living in South Africa, you’ve probably read a headline in the past six months that reads something like: “SA’s unemployment rate on the rise”. You’ve seen people on the street with signs reading “No job, please help”. Joblessness is an inescapable reality for more than a quarter of South Africans, and for more than a […]
The SAIEE has appointed Sicelo Xulu as its new CEO. He will taking over the reins form Stan Bridgens, who has held this position for more than 12 years. Sicelo Xulu is a fellow of the South African Institution of Energy Efficiency (SAIEE). He served as president of the AMEU from 2014 to 2016. Xulu […]
Three of the South African Bureau of Standards’ (SABS’) testing laboratories have been awarded commendations by the South African National Accreditation System (SANAS) for maintaining continuous accreditation status during the last 20 years. Johan Louw, the executive responsible for the Laboratory Services Division at SABS, says SANAS applied the criteria laid out in the ISO/IEC 17025 and […]
Cigré has announced that its nineth Southern African regional conference, with the theme “Sustainable Integration of Distributed Energy Resources for Power System Development”, will be held from 1 to 4 October 2019 at Misty Hills Country Hotel, Conference Centre & Spa, in Muldersdrift, Gauteng. A call has gone out for papers related to the application of […]
The Department of Energy (DoE); the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) hosted an information session for stakeholders on the planned regulation of service lamps and directional lamps for general illumination. The session, held at the Manhattan Hotel in Pretoria on 26 October 2018, provided information on […]
