Transforming Quantity Surveying Firms in South Africa Through Digitalisation

2021 ◽  
pp. 255-265
Author(s):  
Olushola Akinshipe ◽  
Clinton Aigbavboa ◽  
Ayodeji Oke ◽  
Molemo Sekati
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Quantity Surveying

scholarly journals Challenges facing newly established quantity-surveying firms to secure tenders in South Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hletela Mishiyi ◽  
Roy Cumberlege ◽  
Fanie Buys
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Quantity Surveying

Forecasting construction time by quantity surveying practices in South Africa

Urban Forum ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-182
Author(s):  
Raymond N. Nkado ◽  
Akintola Akintoye ◽  
Paul A. Bowen ◽  
Robert G. Pearl
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Construction Time ◽  
Quantity Surveying

scholarly journals Transdisciplinary service-learning for construction management and quantity surveying students

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura F. Pinfold
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Construction Management ◽  
Cooperative Interaction ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Cape Peninsula ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Quantity Surveying ◽  
The Way

The transformation of higher education in South Africa has seen higher education institutions become more responsive to community matters by providing institutional support for service-learning projects. Despite service-learning being practised in many departments at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), there is a significant difference in the way service-learning is perceived by academics and the way in which it should be supported within the curriculum. This article reflects on a collaborative transdisciplinary service-learning project at CPUT that included the Department of Construction Management and Quantity Surveying and the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. The aim of the transdisciplinary service-learning project was for students to participate in an asset-mapping exercise in a rural communal settlement in the Bergrivier municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa. In so doing students from the two departments were gradually inducted into the community. Once inducted, students were able to identify the community’s most urgent needs. During community engagement students from each department were paired together. This allowed transdisciplinary learning to happen with the exploration of ideas from the perspectives of both engineering and urban planning students. Students were able to construct meaning beyond their discipline. Cooperation and synergy between the departments allowed mutual, interchangeable, cooperative interaction with community members. Outcomes for the transdisciplinary service-learning project and the required commitment from students are discussed.

Time and Latitude in South Africa

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
J. Hers
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Royal Observatory ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Astronomical Determination ◽  
Limited Accuracy ◽  
Better Than

In South Africa the modern outlook towards time may be said to have started in 1948. Both the two major observatories, The Royal Observatory in Cape Town and the Union Observatory (now known as the Republic Observatory) in Johannesburg had, of course, been involved in the astronomical determination of time almost from their inception, and the Johannesburg Observatory has been responsible for the official time of South Africa since 1908. However the pendulum clocks then in use could not be relied on to provide an accuracy better than about 1/10 second, which was of the same order as that of the astronomical observations. It is doubtful if much use was made of even this limited accuracy outside the two observatories, and although there may – occasionally have been a demand for more accurate time, it was certainly not voiced.

Indirect Rule in South Africa

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Myers
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Indirect Rule

Combining Professional Interests and Travel: People to People Citizen Ambassador Program

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Alex Johnson ◽  
Amanda Hitchins
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Exchange Program

Abstract This article summarizes a series of trips sponsored by People to People, a professional exchange program. The trips described in this report were led by the first author of this article and include trips to South Africa, Russia, Vietnam and Cambodia, and Israel. Each of these trips included delegations of 25 to 50 speech-language pathologists and audiologists who participated in professional visits to learn of the health, education, and social conditions in each country. Additionally, opportunities to meet with communication disorders professionals, students, and persons with speech, language, or hearing disabilities were included. People to People, partnered with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), provides a meaningful and interesting way to learn and travel with colleagues.

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