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Infrastructure has always been a target in warfare, says Mikhail Chester, an ASU professor of civil and environmental engineering. “Think about military aircraft dropping bombs on bridges or railroad lines,” he says. Chester points to the recent ransomware attack that shut down one of America’s largest fuel pipeline networks. “This kind of problem is growing, and it can’t be solved through remedial repairs to old infrastructure,” Chester said. Infrastructure has always been a targe...

As the European Commission puts forward the Sustainable Products Initiative, VinylPlus® shows that the European PVC industry is continuously improving the sustainability performance and sustainable use of PVC products – starting with the building and construction sector.

Jun 1, 2021 The Minister for the Public Service and Administration, Senzo Mchunu, has appointed a task team to assist government through the National School of Government (The NSG), to finalise the National Implementation Framework towards the Professionalisation of the Public Service. In December 2020, Mchunu released the draft National Implementation Framework towards the Professionalisation of the Public Service for public comment. This followed the Cabinet approval of the publication of the...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the Australian public policy housing system, its structure, the key stakeholders, agencies and their roles and relationships, how housing markets function, and the subsidy, tax policy and regulatory measures that impact on the housing system.

Vodafone teamed up with some of the UKs leading housing experts for the Future Homes report, which explores what houses will look like in 20 years time, and how Covid has impacted this.

The Technical Shared Apprenticeship scheme, first launched by Cyfle Building Skills in partnership with NPTC Group of colleges in September 2017,…

Architecture is becoming a collective endeavour at every stage of the design process, and social sciences have acquired an important role.

The Rhodes University community was saddened by the news of the passing of one of its honorary doctorate recipients, Professor Mahavishnu Padayachee over the weekend. Professor Padayachee was an economist and scholar. In 2018, Rhodes University confe

The demolition of the Paviljoen building on the TU/e campus is part of a European study into circular concrete in which the prefab concrete beams and...

The international ReCreate project, coordinated by Tampere University, Finland, was launched in April this year under the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme to find new uses for the concrete elements of condemned buildings in the construction of new buildings. The four-year project aims to deconstruct these concrete elements without damaging them and reuse them in new buildings in a profitable way.