by Baker Baynes | Jul 27, 2017 | Infrastructure
Water Engineering Challenge The Designing Buildings Wiki defines water engineering as “designing in the realm of risk.” Here, we want to explore this notion – Why, in 2017, is water engineering risky? We take a look at the five areas of water engineering, the major...
by Baker Baynes | Jul 27, 2017 | Baker Baynes News
Towards the end of May, a few of us here at Baker Baynes were lucky enough to attend the second Digital Construction Expo. Vaughan Harris, the Digital Director for the expo, said that the event was there to “allow us to rethink our current business models to adapt to...
by Baker Baynes | Jul 19, 2017 | Infrastructure
In Our Common Future by The Brundtland Commission, the term ‘sustainable development’ was coined and defined as “the development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”....
by Baker Baynes | Jul 13, 2017 | Baker Baynes News
The first week of May saw Nasrec play host to this year’s Machine Tools Africa Expo. Pitching itself as the biggest exhibition of its kind in Africa, the event takes place every two years, and showcases everything that twists, turns, rotates, cuts, forms, bends, or...
by Baker Baynes | Jun 12, 2017 | Infrastructure
As early as 1828, Thomas Tredgold defined the field of civil engineering in terms that still resonate today. “Civil engineering is the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use of convenience of man.” This can only be done with a solid...
