Kolosa Madikizela-Head of the Built Environment Unit, Aurecon.

Kolosa Madikizela was born in Bizana in the Eastern Cape. She has worked in the construction and engineering industry for fifteen years and is the head of the Built Environment Unit at Aurecon, a multinational engineering company.

Kolosa is committed to transformation on a  number of levels. Not only racial and gender transformation, but the transformation of thoughts and ways of working as well.

She also feels that construction companies, developers and the government need to work together on a more equatable and broader development agenda that looks to close the gap between townships and cities  across the country.

Kolosa and I also spoke about the impact of technology on design, sustainable construction and the development of smart cities in the shadow of the fourth industrial revolution.