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Fawcett Security – Making our roads safer
Fawcett Security has a great reputation for keeping our homes and businesses safe, and now they’re making our roads safer too. In June 2017 Fawcett introduced the first and only driving simulator in Zimbabwe. This brand new, one of a kind, initiative could not have come at a better time as driving on our roads…
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City Glass hosts glazing symposium as part of the continuing CIFOZ 3030 Lecture Series
CITY GLASS recently held a glazing symposium in partnership with the Construction Industry Federation of Zimbabwe (CIFOZ) at the CIFOZ headquarters in Eastlea. The main aim of the symposium was to explain the importance of using the correct glazing products in completing project builds. City Glass is the leading supplier of glass and glazing solutions,…
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Getting published as built environment professionals
INTRODUCTION T he Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers (ZIE) continues to receive dozens of manuscripts for possible publication in the ZIE Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology and the Zimbabwe Engineer. Receipt of the manuscripts is a welcome move in the Institution’s quest to fulfil its mandate of continuous professional development initiatives and knowledge sharing. Nonetheless,…
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Building the future Beta Holdings Hosts Third Annual Young Architects Award Ceremony
With a motto such as, “build the future,” it is easy to believe that Beta Holdings is committed to not only supply building materials that stand the test of time, but to do so using methods that are both innovative and visionary. In fact, Beta Holdings went one step further in 2016 when they hosted…
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Masimbi Ekuvakisa, Insimbi Zokwakhisa
Longden Steel is a Zimbabwean structural steel engineering company which is 100% owned by a family trust. The company serves the local and regional construction industry. The company started business in 2003 from scratch- with no assets or expertise, but only driven by a passion to become the leading player in the industry. The business…
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Miami Development P/L
MIAMI Development P/L is a recently registered company primarily involved in Geo-Technical Engineering and Topographical Survey Consultancy. This Consultancy was registered in March 2018. It comprises of a team of dynamic and knowledgeable principals with over 20 years of individual experience in carrying out a wide variety of projects in the fields of Construction Supervision…
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The Ngezi to Selous platinum highway – 20 years later
The fastest road contract ever undertaken in Zimbabwe was completed at the end of November 2001. The contract, was worth US$19 million, was for the construction of a new high specification, 78 km long road linking Selous to Ngezi, and was carried out by several Zimbabwean Companies working together as the Ngezi Road Joint Venture.…
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PPC up & up
PPC ZIMBABWE HAS CEMENTED ITS NATIONAL FOOTPRINT with a powerful new milling plant in Msasa, Harare. WRITERS: MAGNA CARTER REPUTATION MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS (MC)/ STRUCTURE & DESIGN PICTURES: FROM PPC ZIMBABWE, SINOMA & MC S INCE 2014, PPC Zimbabwe has been working towards the next leg of its journey in Zimbabwe. “It marks a giant leap…
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TIMB soars above the rest
THE Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) was first formed as far back as 1936, when it was known as the Tobacco Marketing Board, to facilitate and co-ordinate the farming, processing and selling of locally produced tobacco. They register tobacco growers and license tobacco buyers, auction floors and commercial tobacco graders, as well as facilitating…
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The new Trade Kings plant looms over Workington
TRADE Kings Zimbabwe’s new detergent plant in the Workington area of Harare is impressive and definitely not easy to miss. The six-storey tall blue process building and adjacent spray-drying tower are the most prominent features of this project, visible from quite a distance. However equally impressive once on site is the engineering, design and workmanship…
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Our fifty-ninth edition has a cross-section of insights for you infrastructure buffs.
Autoworld Zimbabwe is reveling in moving into their new premises that house the Isuzu workshops for light and heavy-duty vehicles as well as parts warehouse and offices.
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- OFF-SITE INFRASTRUCTURE DEFICITS CHOKING ZIM’S REAL ESTATE VIABILITY, IDBZ WARNS
- HELCRAW WATER, ZIDA AND HARARE CITY COUNCIL TOUR WATER INFRASTRUCTURE
- THE RISING DEMAND FOR HIGH-QUALITY TREATED TIMBER
- HOUSING DRIVE OPENS OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOCAL CONTRACTORS
- DRAWING OF ROAD MARKINGS BEGINS TO IMPROVE VISIBILITY
