Public Infrastructure
Councils Change. The Reservoir Still Has To Hold.
Municipal elections change who signs the certificates. They do not change the specification, the rainy season, or who has to live with the result.
Community
Not Everything We Build Is Concrete
Unicon handed a trampoline over to Khazimula Children's Home. The smallest thing we have delivered this year, and a note on why we keep doing it.
Our People
Built By Many Hands: How A Trade Gets Passed On, On Site
Heritage Day is a fair moment to be plain about how skill actually moves on a construction site — through the artisans, foremen and operators who carry it.
Bulk Water
El Niño 2026: What A Dry Summer Does To Water Infrastructure
A very strong El Niño is forecast for the 2026/27 summer. Drought does not break water infrastructure, it exposes the parts that were already marginal.
Heavy Civils
Small Bridges, Serious Engineering: Building River Crossings in Rural KwaZulu-Natal
Box culverts, low-level crossings and river bridges rarely make headlines — until the road washes out. Notes from nine KwaZulu-Natal river crossings.
Bulk Water
What a Water Treatment Works Upgrade Actually Involves
Abstraction, flocculation, clarification, filtration and storage, and what changes when the plant must keep supplying a town while you rebuild it.
Water Engineering
The Critical Role of 40ML Reservoirs in African Water Security
An in-depth look at the engineering requirements and post-tensioning techniques necessary to construct zero-leakage bulk water storage in hostile topographies.
Strategic Alliance
Bridging Civil Mastery with Biological Harmony
Unicon Construction's alliance with JWE Africa brings 30 years of animal rearing and agro-processing design into turnkey agricultural EPC delivery.
Technology
Launching 2027: Predictive Facility Management
Unicon previews its upcoming 2027 Facility Management division, utilizing IoT sensors and drone structural health audits to protect R100M+ assets.