Utility Systems partners with African Real Estate & Infrastructure Summit in Sandton in October

Smart water management in focus at property event The organisers of the African Real Estate & Infrastructure Summit have announced the gold sponsorship of Utility Systems, an industry leader in the field of remote communicating electronic water control valves and STS prepayment devices. The opportunities and challenges in the South African property sector, from commercial to residential, will be in focus at the summit that returns to Sandton from 11-12 October. Some 200 property professionals are expected to attend this award-winning real estate event. Assisting Cape Town with water crisis “We are involved in a number of projects in various parts of the world which impact water usage” says Darren Oxlee, Chief Technical Officer at Utility Systems, and a featured speaker at the summit on Smart Water Management. He adds: “most pertinent at this time is the City of Cape Town: we have been deeply involved in assisting the City to manage the recent water crisis by providing a flow limitation solution to reduce household water consumption. We have more than 200,000 units deployed across the City of Cape Town. The implementation of our solution has formed part of the City’s strategy.” According to Utility Systems’ Darren Oxlee, his vision for water management in the property sector is that: “every water consumption point should be managed and monitored with the goal of reducing non-technical losses to under 20% by 2030. At the moment it is estimated that we lose about 38% of potable water in our systems which, aside for the massive cost, unnecessarily wastes our most valuable resource.”Darren’s full interview can read on the event website: http://www.african-real-estate-summit.com/UtilitySystems-interviewAlso read: Awareness: the first step in water conservation, by Utility SystemsProperty Buyer Show During the same week as the African Real Estate & Infrastructure Summit, the award-winning Property Buyer Show also returns to Gauteng from 12-14 October at the Sandton International Convention Centre. The Property Buyer Show is a unique, proven format exhibition aimed at first-time residential property buyers or real estate investors and earlier this year won the AAXO ROAR Organiser and Exhibitor Award for the Best Consumer Exhibition 6000 sqm and under. The African Real Estate & Infrastructure Summit was also voted Africa's best Confex (half conference, half exhibition) at the 2017 AAXO Roar Awards. The summit and the Property Buyer Show are organised by the multi award-winning Spintelligent, well known for organising exhibitions and conferences across the continent in the infrastructure, energy, mining and agriculture sectors. Longstanding flagship events by Spintelligent include African Utility Week, Future Energy Nigeria (formerly WAPIC), Future Energy East Africa (formerly WAPIC), Agritech Expo Zambia, Kenya Mining Forum, Nigeria Mining Week, DRC Mining Week. Spintelligent is part of Clarion Events Ltd, based in the UK. Dates and location: African Real Estate & Infrastructure Summit: 11-12 October 2018 Property Buyer Show expo: 13-14 October 2018 Location: Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa Websites: http://www.african-real-estate-summit.com/ & http://www.propertybuyershow.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/ARES_Summit & https://twitter.com/propertyshowsa Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8518271 Media contact: Senior communications manager:  Annemarie Roodbol Telephone:  +27 21 700 3558 Email:  annemarie.roodbol@spintelligent.com