Civil Engineering nOVEMBER 2021 | Vol 29 No 10

FRONT COVER I
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK 1
Public-private partnerships in addressing infrastructure delivery needs 1
CONTENTS 2
ON THE COVER 4
Stefanutti Stocks grows geotechnical project portfolio 4
CEO’S CORNER 6
Sustainability underpinned by infrastructure development and quality education 6
QUIZ 8
SAICE Know Your Sector Competition 8
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR 9
Who cares about toilets? 9
TECHNOLOGY 10
Smart Robots ready to build a faster, cleaner, more profitable construction industry 10
WATER ENGINEERING 11
Unpacking the dire state of non-revenue water in SA 11
Open channel flow measurement and monitoring: the rectangular long-throat flume 14
CONTRACTS 18
Contractual claims: the contract administrator’s role 18
TRANSPORTATION 22
Challenges affecting cross-border road transport operations and recommended solutions 22
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SAICE 24
Introduction 24
Quick finder 24
Statutory bodies and associated structures 26
Discipline-specific bodies 34
International bodies 47
Tertiary institutions where civil engineering can be studied 51
Additional acronyms and abbreviations relevant to the engineering environment 54
IN BRIEF 55
How to work with readymix concrete 55
Local cement only for government projects 56
Civil engineering sector signs new three-year agreement 56
New research reveals how to build a thriving city 57
SAICE AND PROFESSIONAL NEWS 58
Unravelling the DNA of the ethical civil engineer 58
Notification of proposed ballot to revise clause 2.9.1.3 of the SAICE Constitution 59
Update on the development and operation of the SAICE Ethics Committee 60
SAICE Training Calendar 62
BACK COVER 66

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