Author:Verhaeghe, Benoit MJA; Maina, J; Paige-Green, P; De Beer, Morris; Du Plessis, LDate:01 Sep 2010Road infrastructure is a key driver in supporting and stimulating socio-economic development. The South African road network, similar to those of other countries, needs to accommodate a wide spectrum of roads, ranging from light road pavement ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn VDate:01 Sep 2010The Millennium Development Goals are the world’s targets for addressing extreme poverty in its many dimensions – income poverty, hunger, disease, lack of adequate shelter, and exclusion – while promoting gender equality, education and ...Read more
Author:Ampofo-Anti, NLDate:Sep 2012The construction of homes provides social and economic benefits to society, but contributes significantly to environmental degradation. The focus of both international and South African efforts to improve the environmental performance of the ...Read more
Author:Matamanda, AR; Chirisa, I; Rammile, S; Marais, Mario ADate:Mar 2022The housing and human settlement sector is fast changing, and technology is making it more complex than ever before. With reference to Zimbabwe, a developing country in Southern Africa, the essence of this book is to bring out housing as an ...Read more
Author:van der Molen, W; Rossouw, M; Phelp, D; Tulsi, K; Terblanche, LDate:01 Sep 2010Late in 2009 CSIR Built Environment in Stellenbosch was awarded a contract to carry out extensive physical and numerical modelling to study the wave conditions and associated moored ship motions, for the design of a new iron ore export jetty ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn V; Kistan, Kenny FDate:Oct 2007The CSIR was approached by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) to make recommendations with regard to alternative technologies that would contribute to achieving sustainable development imperatives in a subsidised housing project ...Read more