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OCTOBER 2018 | Vol 52 No 10

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Student digs in Braam

Due for completion in February 2020, a 17-floor building is currently rising from its basement on the corner of Jorissen Street and Bertha Avenue in downtown Braamfontein, near the precinct of the University of the Witwatersrand.

Developing a smart city

As people seek work opportunities, we have seen rapid urbanisation happening in cities, locally and abroad. Experts say that the growth rate of urbanisation is almost double the rate of population. How are cities working around the pressure and what role is engineering playing?

Geotechnical investigations

Civil engineering contractors regularly complain of the flawed nature of the geotechnical reports on which they base their work.