The Department of Labour (DoL) will, on Monday, resume its inquiry into the Grayston drive pedestrian and cyclist structural bridge collapse with testimony from the Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA). The October 2015 incident resulted in the death of two people, while 19 others were injured. The scaffolding, which was intended to have been used as an interim support measure during construction of a pedestrian bridge parallel to the Grayston Bridge, gave way, collapsing on the high-traffic M1 highway.

The Department of Labour (DoL) will, on Monday, resume its inquiry into the Grayston drive pedestrian and cyclist structural bridge collapse with testimony from the Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA). The October 2015 incident resulted in the death of two people, while 19 others were injured. The scaffolding, which was intended to have been used as an interim support measure during construction of a pedestrian bridge parallel to the Grayston Bridge, gave way, collapsing on the high-traffic M1 highway.

Multidisciplinary consulting engineering firm Bosch East Africa Consulting Engineers – part of South Africa-based Bosch Holdings – has extended its mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) services to include civil and structural engineering services to further extend its footprint in Africa. The company’s extended civil engineering consultancy services now also include the design and construction supervision of bulk earthworks, roads, stormwater structures, dams, water and wastewater treatment plants, pipelines and solid-waste management facilities. Its structural engineering services comprise reinforced concrete and structural steel design services, and the construction supervision of residential, industrial and commercial buildings, from the foundations to the roof.

Despite a subdued trading environment, owing to intensifying competition in the ready-mix concrete segment, building materials company Sephaku Holdings has optimised its overall capacity utilisation in terms of production and transport, while further reducing its debt in the financial year ended March 31. The group’s net profit decreased from R68.1-million in the prior financial year to R44.2-million, with headline earnings a share having decreased to 20.92c, compared with 33.37c in the prior year.

Energy Minister Jeff Radebe initiated bilateral discussions with Mozambique this week regarding the further development of the cross-border gas infrastructure linking South Africa’s energy and chemicals sectors to Mozambique’s vast natural gas resource. Well over 100-trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas has been discovered in Mozambique and there is an expectation that, with further exploration and development, the resource could be enlarged in future.