South Africa’s construction boom has proved a lucrative time for a raft of new elevator and escalator companies. The rise in demand prompted Schindler South Africa, one of the established players, to review its approach to business. Pankaj Sinha, newly appointed managing director, tells Andrew Pelis how the company has transformed its operations.

Landing the World Cup brought some difficult decisions for the South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) when planning the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project. Project manager Alex van Niekerk outlined these to John O’Hanlon.

The founder and chairman of the Hashoo Group Sadruddin Hashwani speaks to John O’Hanlon about the purchase of Shell’s LPG marketing assets in Pakistan and the continuing growth of Orient Petroleum International Inc (OPII).

Olayan Descon is continuing to expand its industrial construction and maintenance capabilities to support the industrialisation of Saudi Arabia. Muhammad Naveed talks to Gay Sutton about the latest move: to provide end-to-end engineering, procurement and construction services.

Sometimes success brings problems rather than rewards; but as Alan Swaby learns, the resourceful manager will find ways of solving them.

India’s industries continue to march along; and Jeff Daniel learns about one of the companies supporting this expansion.

In 1999, two industrial giants joined forces to create a truly enormous industrial giant that had, at the time, over 120,000 employees in just about every corner of the globe.

Tarun Kapoor, managing director of Himachal Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (HPPCL), talks to Jayne Flannery about the social and environmental imperatives of sustainable power generation within the state.

Commercial director of Haw & Inglis Civil Engineering Francis Chemaly tells Jane Bordenave how the company has developed over the past 12 months and what the future has in store.

Cape Town-based Haw & Inglis is one of South Africa’s foremost civil engineering firms, with 25 years of experience in the field. The company has particular expertise in road and highway construction and has been instrumental in developing the country’s infrastructure.

Cluff Gold brought two gold mines to production during 2008 and is now poised to develop a third, much larger prospect. Chairman Algy Cluff talks to Gay Sutton about the rocky road to success.

Russia and Norway ended a 40-year dispute yesterday when they signed an Arctic border treaty, opening up the region to offshore oil and gas development.

Russia’s president Dmitry Medvedev and Jens Stoltenberg, the premier of Norway, attended the signing in Murmansk, a Russian Barents Sea port near the Norwegian border.

The disputed territory in the Barents Sea covered 175,000 square kilometres—roughly half the size of Germany—between the Novaya Zemlya archipelago on the Russian side and the Svlabard archipelago on the Norwegian side.