CIVIL ENGINEERING CONTRACTORS 
Photo by Yancy Min on Unsplash South Africa is home to many iconic structures and buildings which are among some of the top engineering features both nationally and internationally. Despite the past and present challenges that the local construction industry is fraught with,......
15 April, 2021No comment
Image: ww.phlf.org Civil Engineering is an ancient field, which has been around as a practice for five centuries, and which has been responsible for great works such as the Brooklyn Bridge, The Aqueduct of Segovia, the Hoover Dam, and the Burj Khalifa (to name only......
06 April, 2021No comment
With our own personal ‘road blocks’ due to the ever-threatening pandemic and its second wave, construction work has been somewhat slow across the board and we have been counting our blessings, grateful for each new project that comes our way. One of which we are......
22 February, 2021No comment
Image: sculpteo.com Construction constantly changes along with new advances in technology, as we have seen with drones, clean energy building and plastic roads. And so, it is no surprise that construction will start to look a little different with the advances in 3D Printing. 3D Printing in construction is undoubtedly an exciting new avenue and already,......
28 January, 2021No comment
At Rumdel, we love to stay on top of all the latest news and construction technology developments and are excited about what the future of civil engineering holds. While many may have the misconception that the construction industry is mundane, we have some interesting technological innovations to share with you that show the opposite is true. Take......
01 December, 2020No comment
There are many different areas of study within the field of construction. One of the lesser known, but arguably more interesting, areas is that of civil engineering technology. Civil engineering technologists perform a wide range of duties to aid large scale construction and have a number of employment options. They can either......
01 November, 2020No comment
The past few months have been particularly rough on our Polihali East team, with frustrations mounting as a result of the pandemic. Upon returning to the Lesotho site on the 6th and 7th of May 2020 (when lockdown restrictions were relaxed to level 4 is......
05 October, 2020No comment
Image: thenewcivilengineer.com The idea of clean, zero-emission energy production no longer seems so far out of reach, since the International Energy Agency (IEA), along with The Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GmBH) have recognised South Africa as a viable location for large-scale green hydrogen production.......
16 September, 2020No comment
Photo by Yuhan Chang on Unsplash While drones have been around for some time and have been used in innovative ways in industries such as agriculture, public safety, military, science and mining, their appearance in the civil engineering industry is relatively new. In recent years,......
24 August, 2020No comment
Do you have a passion and interest in the construction of large-scale structures? Have you decided that you’d like to become a civil engineer but aren’t quite sure what exactly it is that you need to do to become one? At Rumdel we give priority to two main......
31 July, 2020No comment