{"id":96323,"date":"2025-12-09T10:37:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maccaferri.com\/za\/?p=96323"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:38:15","slug":"empowering-engineering-excellence-maccaferri-africa-hosts-two-day-lecture-series-with-ethekwini-municipality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maccaferri.com\/za\/news\/empowering-engineering-excellence-maccaferri-africa-hosts-two-day-lecture-series-with-ethekwini-municipality\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowering Engineering Excellence: Maccaferri Africa hosts Two-Day Lecture Series with eThekwini Municipality"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-mac-container-block box-container\"><div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><p>Devan Govender, Engineered Solutions Manager at Maccaferri Africa, recently hosted a comprehensive two-day lecture series for the eThekwini Coastal Stormwater and Catchment Management team. Across the two days, Devan delivered four in-depth sessions per day to small, focused groups of ten participants. This format created a highly interactive environment that encouraged discussion, practical insights, and meaningful knowledge exchange.<\/p>\n\n<p>The lectures explored Maccaferri\u2019s innovative approaches to addressing complex geotechnical and civil engineering challenges, with key themes including:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Coastal and stormwater management strategies<\/li>\n\n<li>Sustainable, long-lasting infrastructure solutions<\/li>\n\n<li>Practical design applications for resilient, real-world environments<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>A sincere thank-you to the eThekwini team for partnering with us to empower professionals with the knowledge and solutions that drive engineering innovation.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>For any additional information contact: Nadeena Le\u2019Tang, Senior Marketing Manager \u2013 Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Mobile: +27 (0) 83 657 7033, Email: n.letang@maccaferri.com<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":56139,"featured_media":96326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.0 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - 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