From the world's tallest headgear to an innovative subsea tunnel at Durban's harbour mouth, this year's biennial Fulton Awards, presented by the Concrete Society of Southern Africa, again yielded a host of outstanding winners.

Working with its counterpats in Hungary, India and Poland, the CSIR is studying how natural fibre composites could play a role as renewable building materials, in turn providing sustainable impetus to an allied emerging farming sector

A JV team comprising Group Five, Makhosi Infrastructure and Fikile Construction are to construct the Department of Education's new headquarters in Pretoria, which is being developed as a Public Private Partnership (PPP) project

DSI South Africa, in association with DSI owned Austrian tunnelling company, Alwag Techmo, has secured a specialised contract for the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link project entailing the application of the latter's AT-Casing Tube System

A preview of a selection of bridge entries submitted for the upcoming Steel Awards 2007 competition reinforces the role that these structures play in linking people, ideas, countries and economies. The results of the competition will be announced on the 2nd August 2007

Research shows that the adoption of warm mix asphalt (WMA) results in a significant reduction in energy and heating costs for road surfacing contractors. The lower mixing temperatures also yield significant fuel savings of as much as 30% when compared to traditional hot mix asphalt (HMA) applications

Maccaferri's acquisition of UK based concern, Linear Composites, has added a new product line to the Italian conglomerates stable in the environmental engineering field. This includes the MacForce system, which recently underwent its first successful application on a Cape bridge abutment project

Geosynthetic applications in SA are rapidly making inroads as designers start to realise and understand their true potential for either ""hard"" engineering or ""soft"" environmental applications

UK based company, Clean Air Power (CAP), has perfected a means of using natural gas in diesel engines to reduce their harmful emissions and running costs. CAP's patented Dual-Fuel system is now attracting increasing attention globally from truck manufacturers and fleet operators

It all started some 80 years ago on 14th April 1927 when the first Volvo car left the factory in Sweden, followed by the company's first truck in February 1928. A major player internationally, today Volvo's largest truck, the FH16, is also the world's most powerful, with up to 660 hp and no less than 3 100 Nm of torque on tap