A place for women in the construction and FM industries
Written by The newsdesk
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
Is there a place for women in Construction Industry and therefore FM? Has the industry evolved to a level where transformation is evident in the increased number of women choosing careers in the industry? Are the barriers to entry for women in this male dominated industry dissolving? (By Kolosa Madikizela)
Once a bone of contention, now a ubiquitous element in our everyday HVAC world. Since their inception, Variable Frequency Drives have come a long way, in terms of price, size, and reliability. So far have they come, you wonder why all motor-driven equipment isn’t required to have one. In fact, we might not be so far off from that, and with so many reasons to equip a motor with a VFD, it may soon become the norm rather than the exception, even with equipment traditionally not thought of as ever needing one.
The Department of Water and Environmental Affairs has money aside to cope with water pollution and illegal dumping by paying rural women to help cleaning rivers and waterstreams.
AFM e-learning; Maintenance and Facilities Management, Module 6
Written by The newsdesk
Wednesday, 04 August 2010
Operations maintenance (O&M) of buildings and its supporting infrastructure encompasses all that broad spectrum of services required to assure the built environment will perform the functions for which a facility was designed and constructed. Operations and maintenance typically includes the day-to-day activities necessary for the building and its systems and equipment to perform their intended function. Operations and maintenance are combined into the common term O&M because a facility cannot operate at peak efficiency without being maintained.
Industrial vacancies still on a par with long-term averages
Written by The newsdesk
Tuesday, 03 August 2010
A look at industrial vacancy trends shows that there is, as yet, no need for industrial property investors to panic and make friends with their bankers.
Operator Sail StadeFrance is currently dismantling 13 000 temporary seats at Cape Town stadium to ensure that the R4.5-billion facility remains sustainable and is not a drain on ratepayers.
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This week’s Friday funny; ...a case study for expanding escalator capacity!
In the week where many delegates discussed the Maintenance of Engineering Infrastructure in Developing Countries in Gaborone, Botswana, the Development Bank released its study about the maintenance of infrastructure.
An expected shortage in water will force the government to implement demand-side-management (DSM) at a local level for water, the country has been warned.
