Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa January/February 2014 | Page 6

B EDITORIAL y the time this reaches all of you, I will have written my last editorial for a long while. I intend settling down along the Garden Route, where I will still be involved with the magazine but not quite as intensely. The past year has taxed everyone in different ways – we have had the major construction companies having to pay vast sums of money for price collusion; we have had the ongoing world recession, which impacts on every aspect of life, but heavily on the construction industry and then, most of all, we have had our problems with corruption, fraud and ever-present strikes, which have resulted in our country slipping further down the ranks of well-run countries. Despite all this, the prospects still seem good for the coming year as it appears that we are showing signs of emerging from the hard times of late. Diana Woode OUR TEAM EDITOR Diana Woode [email protected] ASSISTANT EDITOR Shelley Woode-Smith [email protected] DESIGN Peter Fenner-Solomon [email protected] ADVERTISING SALES Diana Woode Shelley Woode-Smith PRINTING Creda POSTAGE Cape Mail / SAPO PUBLISHERS Diana Woode Peter Fenner-Solomon CONTRIBUTORS We welcome articles, photographs a