The Diamond Hill Toll Plaza is this year's overall winner in the 2005 competition and is joined by an outstanding selection of category winners.

South Africa is being left behind by its major trading partners in the arbitration arena as a consequence of its failure to promulgate two important pieces of legislation.

Pioneering research under way at a Canadian research institute seeks a means to minimise the impact of weather damage on buildings, which in the UK alone costs more than 700 million pounds annually.

Group Five International, together with its joint venture partners, will make extensive use of precast beams and slabs to fast-track work on the new Mega Cargo terminal building going up at Dubai International Airport.

PPC's Board has approved an investment of R1,36bn to increase the company's inland cement capacity by just over one million tons per annum. The project has two components.

Reinforcing market leader, Steeldale.ARC has developed a number of innovative solutions for the construction market, including SteeleMAT, a new and ergonomically friendly method of supplying slab steel to site in a prefabricated form.

Gauteng based geotechnical specialists, Dura Piling, is pressing ahead on a range of challenging projects. These include a marine soil improvement contract at the Richards Bay Coal Terminal using a technological solution being applied for the first time..

Innovative solutions for rockfall protection systems devised by African Gabions/Maccaferri, coupled with sophisticated design software programmes, are discussed in Part One of this two part series.

The Pienaars River Outfall Sewer augmentation has developed into a multi-disciplinary project consisting of several kilometres of 1,6 diameter pipeline and a 770m long tunnel. VKE International has been appointed as the subconsultant for the tunnel design

Renault Trucks enters the market with a comprehensive vehicle line-up, which includes the ultra-modern Renault Kerax in six model configurations.