Deputy President, Paul Mashatile, has called on engineers to help government tackle infrastructure challenges made worse by destructive weather patterns. He delivered a keynote address at the 9th United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's Africa Engineering Week, which got underway with an engineering conference in Pretoria. South Africa has experienced disasters linked to extreme weather conditions and an energy crisis, which engineers believe, through collaboration and skills development, could be a thing of the past. Elvis Presslin spoke to the spokesperson for the Construction, Mining, Energy and Engineering Workers Union (COMEEWU), Simo Mkhwanazi