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Aurecon skyscapes 2017 annual World Architecture 100 survey
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urecon has relentlessly been giving life to ideas to design a better future providing advisory, design, delivery and asset management services on projects across a range of
Aninka Wessels (left), Chief of People Management and Dr David Leslie, Bidvest FM CEO
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idvest Facilities Management, a member of the Bidvest Group, recently achieved a Level One Contributor status in an Empowerdex B-BBEE report with an AAA+ overall score and a 51% Black Owned Designated Group Supplier rating. Aninka Wessels, Chief of People Management at Bidvest Facilities Management, says that the company is especially proud of achieving an A (score of 18.14 out of 20.00) for Skills Development, and a B (score of 42.02 out of 40.00) for Enterprise and Supplier Development. “These two scores reflect both the hard work that our team has put into the process, as well as real transformation
across our organisation that impacts the lives of people,” she adds. “Our intensive learnership programs at our Technical Training Academy for both our employees and for unemployed previously disadvantaged people have been extremely successful, and most of these learners have been absorbed into our organisation.”Wessels says that their new Level One Contributor status reflects the company’s commitment to transformation in South Africa and their passion for change. “The fact that we embrace transformation is not because we have to, but because we realise the enormous value it brings to our people, our organisation, as well as our country,” she concludes.
New Year, New Office and New promotions
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RCAD is a Autodesk Value Added Reseller (VAR) and Autodesk Authorised Training Centre (ATC) specialising in software as well as hardware solutions for the manufacturing market. The Autodesk authorised reseller in KwaZulu-Natal has now
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branch to Gauteng and eagerly opened their new office. To share their excitement, ARCAD will have two competitive promotions running from 01 February until 30 April 2017. The promotion combines a number of necessities for offices and includes software, hardware, training and consulting. Visit arcad.co.za for more
markets, in locations worldwide. Their services were highly favoured by leading architects, whom have yet again voted Aurecon as one of the top five ‘Best Partners’ globally in both the ‘Service engineers’ and ‘Structural engineers’ categories. aurecongroup.co.za
Public Enterprises Minister to open POWER-GEN & DistribuTECH Africa
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outh Africa’s Minister of Public Enterprises, Lynne Brown, has confirmed her participation as a keynote speaker at Africa’s premier power sector event, POWER-GEN & DistribuTECH Africa 2017. The Minister will be among a number of sub-Saharan Ministers and top government officials participating in POWER-GEN & DistribuTECH Africa 2017, where regulators and industry leaders will debate the most pressing issues in African power provision today. The co-located events, to be staged at the Sandton Convention Centre from 18 – 20 July, will also
feature international and local expert briefings across five tracks: Strategies for the ESI, Renewable Technologies & Opportunities, Utility Management, Power Plant Technology, and Africa’s Nuclear Future. The agenda includes both technical and strategic talks by expert speakers from across Africa, as well as from Canada, Denmark, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Israel, Russia, The Netherlands, and the U.S. Topics to be covered include finance and investment, the digital technology revolution, industry sustainability, asset performance management, renewable technologies and utility management.