Lorna Rutto from Kenya has been named the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards 2011 laureate for sub-Saharan Africa for her creative business idea of making fence posts from plastic waste. (by Wilma den Hartigh)
Building Automation Systems and IT - a perfect marriage
Written by The newsdesk
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
The benefits of integrating Building Automation Systems (BAS) into an organisation's enterprise ICT backbone are significant. The trend to realise the promised efficiencies and insight into operations that this brings is being driven by the evolution of Internet Protocols (IP) based communication, which makes the transfer and sharing of information from one data point to another not only possible, but seamless. It's an opportunity still waiting to be exploited by South African organisations. (By Neil Cameron, Johnson Controls)
Speaking at the opening of the new innovation centre in Midran, Vodacom CEO Pieter Uys, has challenged the facilities management induustryto use technology and their expertise to find solutions to meet critical social, environmental and governance challenges.
Mitsubishi to take energy generation to the next level
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Monday, 23 January 2012
Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation has announced that it intends to start selling a material that enables the walls of buildings and various other structures to generate electricity by 2013.
How to optimize the accuracy of automatic meter reading?
Written by The newsdesk
Thursday, 19 January 2012
To get maximum performance from your new automatic meter reading (AMR), advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) and advanced metering analytics (AMA) systems, there are several steps to consider.
A study by the Department of Water Affairs (DWA) has revealed that the water conservation and water demand management initiatives implemented by the eThekwini, Ilembe, Ugu and Msunduzi municipalities have resulted in shortening the water supply deficit period for the KwaZulu-Natal coastal metropolitan area by three years to 2013.
Sustainable energy has emerged as an important corporate agenda point and many organisations today communicate their efforts in strategic marketing campaigns. These campaigns bring across the importance of sustainability efforts and how this will make a difference. The challenge is to take this concept and implement it in a practical sense. (By Dr Andrew Hutchison, International Presales Management at T-Systems in South Africa)
The Department of Public Works has decided it will extend the deadline for a tender to provide facility management services in both Pretoria and Cape Town.
