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Increasingly, the emphasis on the sustainability of major projects has moved to engaging communities in order to catalyse self-sustaining growth and break the cycle of poverty. We asked Amelia Visagie, Training Projects Coordinator at Aurecon, to give her views on this trend and explain what it entails.
Expertise: Environmental and community planning
This paper delves into several sustainability theories with the aim of ensuring a sound understanding of the concept of ‘sustainability’ and ‘sustainable development’ which then poses the question as to what role EIAs have in promoting sustainability in South Africa.
Finding an optimal balance between community needs and economic benefits of the urban expressway.
Markets: Transport, Urban transportExpertise: Environmental and community planning, Transport systems and logistics
Nick Mannie – Technical Director, Waste – was recently interviewed about finding sustainable solutions to South Africa’s waste challenges.
Markets: GovernmentExpertise: Environmental and community planning
Brian Smith, Aurecon’s Technical Leader, Transport, explains how more compact bus facilities can better fit within constrained city centre locations and make for improved integration of transport and land use.
Markets: Transport, Urban transportExpertise: Transport systems and logistics, Environmental and community planning
Optimising land use, operational efficiency, light rail system, integrated urban design
Markets: Construction, Government, Property, Transport, Land developmentExpertise: Environmental and community planning, Transport systems and logistics, Land infrastructure
On major projects, expectations around communication are greater than ever — both internally and externally.
Expertise: Environmental and community planning, Programme and project delivery
Truly successful major projects are those that attain the highest engineering and project management standards and add value by delivering effective skills development to communities.
Markets: International development assistanceExpertise: Environmental and community planning
In this Face to Face interview, Aurecon CEO, Paul Hardy, talks with Peter Baxter, Director-General AusAid, about effective ways to support disaster response as well as reduce community vulnerability in the long-term.