Genlux's operations director, David Tavendale featured as the Sparks personality of the month. A ‘youngster' in the lighting industry, David explains that he started his career working in the factory during strikes and then worked as an assembler, gathering experience along the way.

Terry Mackenzie Hoy asks: How flawed is the tender process? He says he is in favour of a system where, say, three contactors are given documents and are then interviewed by the consulting engineers and the quantity surveyor, who make a judgement based on previous work completed by the contractors, their staffing capabilities, financial offer and general presentation.

Lawrence Hillery takes apart SANS 10142-1 as he tries to make sense of ‘flat 2 + E' and ‘surfix' cables and the conditions under which they can be buried.

Electric motors are one of the most important components in any production line and this feature looks at some of the recent installations by CMG, Zest and Actom Eletrical Machines.

This feature includes an interesting article by Dick Hardie looks at the use of Interdac III cables.

Articles on occupancy sensors, DALI-capable lighting fixtures and electronic ballasts, LEDs and CFLs feature in this month's lighting section. The Durban branch of IESSA was impressed by the lighting at the new Moses Mabhida Stadium during a recent visit, and Beka explains how they translated the lighting requirements for the Green Point stadium in Cape Town.

Social photographs taken when Russell Gittleson of Lighting Kinetics gave a presentation on energy efficient LED lighting for outdoors at the March meeting of the Johannesburg branch of IESSA.