
7th Regional Conference for Africa to focus on smart, safe and resilient roads
The seventh Regional Conference for Africa will be held from 18-20 October at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. The theme is ‘Connecting Africa through

Housing deficit, pandemic, recession, inflation
Real estate has become a global asset class and, as a developing nation, the Nigerian real estate market continues to evolve at an impressive pace.

construction in the age of greening
In June 2022, a fire outbreak at a hospital construction site in Istanbul, Turkey, destroyed most of the newly installed medical and security devices, and

it needs to focus on fixing what it’s got
A common response to a gathering urban crisis is to imagine starting afresh with new cities. The impulse crosses the political spectrum. In his 2019

RICS publishes new guidance for land measurement in development projects
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has published new guidance on the measurement of land for development projects, such as new housing and commercial

Is greenwashing a threat to sustainable construction?
The saturation of environmental journalism – focused on the Paris Agreement, COP27 and associated topics – is resulting in construction professionals’ apparent boredom when sustainability