Reviewing the FAW commercial vehicle range, it is clear that FAW China has made great headway in adapting its products to match customer demands across various world regions.
The vehicles from the FAW stable have taken on more modern designs, new technical innovations where appropriate, increased quality production, safer environments for all, and ethical practices, as their modern-day mantra. This ethos has enabled FAW worldwide to provide ever better vehicles, which remain easy to drive, easy to maintain and service, and positively contribute to lowering the total cost of fleet operations.
Growing sustainability consciousness
Home to a burgeoning list of green buildings – including some of the largest and most cutting edge on the continent – Sandton Central is an epicentre for green building in Africa.
Now Sandton Central’s landmark Sandton Convention Centre has been selected to host the Annual Green Building Convention for the first time.
KBAC Flooring has donated about 800 square metres of used Interface carpet tiles to South Africa's first Streetlight School which opened in Johannesburg in mid-January this year. It has been registered for a 4-Star Green Star SA Interiors rating with the Green Building Council of South Africa. If the rating is awarded, it will be the first Green Star-rated school in South Africa.
For many centuries, quantity surveyors were regarded as financial managers for conventional building projects. But the ‘green revolution’ has changed all that.
This has been the highly unusual challenge for De Leeuw Namibia. They were recently involved in the new Habitat Resource & Development Centre on behalf of the Namibian Ministry of Regional & Local Government, Housing and Rural Development.
From left: Sandton, the African hub for sustainable building; Streetlight School and a building built almost entirely form scrap materials.
Roads and bridges
Our roads and bridges features the winner of this year’s CMA Awards for excellence – three of this year’s trophy winners were roads or people traffic related.
While quality of materials is a prerequisite for any construction project, it is also the ability to guarantee an interrupted supply of cement that has proved to be a major competitive edge for AfriSam on recent road overhaul projects in the Free State.
Basil Read’s Roads Division executive officer, Bruce Morton, talked to Wilhelm du Plessis about how this premier Roads Division is increasingly becoming a Transportation Division, capable of servicing the needs of its clients.
From left: The Community upliftment trophy winner of the CMA Awards was Walmer Township, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape; Raubex is stabilising the sub-base to a depth of 350 mm with AfriSam’s Roadstab 32.5N CEM ii B-L cement and in Mpumalanga the Basil Read’s Roads division is upgrading a section of the road between Greylingstad and Standerton and the road between Standerton and Platrand.