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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"ageing infrastructure"”.
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Identifying the factors that affect the provision of water to households in the Free State Province
The deterioration of water infrastructure leads to a reduction in economic growth and poor health for the citizens. Decision makers in local government prefer to prioritise above ground infrastructure and neglect critical underground infrastructure issues such as maintenance of water pipelines. As …
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Rapid development of a wireless infrastructure monitoring system
… low-impact wireless monitoring systems for ageing infrastructure. It was funded by the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI). Particular attention is paid in this thesis to the role uncertainty played in the development process. The importance of using flexibility in addressing uncertainty is …
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Blast and impact response of elastomer-coated concrete
… being focused on strategies to protect critical infrastructure from the detrimental effects of blast and impact. While new structures can be designed with this threat in mind, existing, ageing infrastructure remains vulnerable. Structural retrofit for blast and impact mitigation is one solution …
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Municipal infrastructure grant and service delivery in Theewaterskloof and Overstrand Municipalities
… of misuse and underspending of the municipal infrastructure grant (MIG) by South African municipalities is an increasing concern. Such incidents lead to continuing problems of failure to eradicate infrastructure backlogs and to the poor provision of service delivery by the municipalities. The …
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The effectiveness of Vhembe District Municipality in the provision of potable water services at Thohoyandou
… continue to experience water shortages, infrastructure failures, and irregularities. The System Theory was adopted in the study as it provides a holistic framework for understanding and managing the entire water supply chain as a complex, interconnected system. This study is grounded in …
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Benefits of smart grid technologies in South Africa
… of the Electricity Distribution Industry (EDI) infrastructure, indicated that although there were pockets of good performance, assets needed urgent rehabilitation and investment. Further studies have revealed that the distribution grid infrastructure is aging and poorly maintained, and that its …
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The feasibility of augmenting the Stellenbosch potable water supply by establishing a direct potable reuse plant
… climate change, increasing urbanisation and ageing infrastructure to name a few. The water scarcity problems will persist in the future globally unless water management authorities are able to augment existing raw water resources with a mix of desalination, groundwater and reclamation of …
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Understanding factors for investment into South African diaspora bonds: an extended theory of planned behaviour
South Africa's power infrastructure faces a multi-faceted crisis linked to electricity supply, ageing infrastructure and a concentration of coal-based production, as well as shortfalls in financing infrastructure development. Diaspora bonds offer a promising alternative financing mechanism for …
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Dynamic distributed monitoring of masonry railway bridges
… of many European transport networks, are often ageing structures, with complex histories of damage and repair work. Furthermore, their material properties and non-visible geometry may be challenging, if not impossible, to ascertain, creating uncertainty in the reliability of computational …