scholarly journals Factors influencing the quality of design documentation on South African civil engineering projects

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
E Akampurira ◽  
A Windapo
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Design Documentation ◽  
Engineering Projects

scholarly journals Discussion on Construction Technology of Road Subgrade in Civil Engineering

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
De Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Engineering System ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
Road Engineering ◽  
The Road ◽  
Engineering Projects ◽  
Safety And Stability

With the rapid development of cities, more and more new roads are built in various civil engineering projects. Subgrade construction is the core of road engineering system. Only by comprehensively ensuring the quality of road subgrade can the road performance be effectively improve and the development of urban construction be ensured. The quality of subgrade determines the traffic capacity of urban roads and plays a decisive role in the safety and stability of traffic. This article mainly analyzes the problems of road subgrade construction in civil engineering, and comprehensively puts forward countermeasures, so as to effectively improve the subgrade construction quality and ensure the smooth operation of roads.

scholarly journals Factors influencing the quality of low-income housing in Polokwane Municipality South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-52
Author(s):  
Kgashane Stephen Nyakala ◽  
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Sekou Dolly Ramoroka ◽  
Kemlall Ramdass
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Low Income ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Construction Quality ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Design Construction ◽  
Low Income Housing

Recent South African and international evidence highlights the broad and lasting impacts of households, particularly those on low income, when unable to afford higher income counterparts to live in apartments, maintained public housing, and other high-quality houses. A broad range of low-income houses recently built in South African local municipalities are reportedly defective, due to poor building and construction quality. This study aims to assess and determine the factors influencing high-quality housing positively impacting on the lives of a significant proportion of low-income housing projects. Reasons for and obstacles to quality design, construction quality and the development of low-income housing projects were identified. To assess the research questions, a quantitative survey (n=103) was carried out, simple random and purposive sampling techniques were used to select contractors who were active in low-income housing projects within the Polokwane Municipality. The quantitative data gathered were analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) to determine a combination of descriptive and non-parametric statistics of the data computing the frequencies, mean scores and standard deviations. Selected results show that poor-quality and low-income housing projects are perceived to be related to the contractors, builders and construction practitioners not complying with the standards, variously because of insufficient training or accountability to public authorities and end users of low-income houses, i.e., the beneficiaries. The respondents were of the view that house builders and local government authorities could use five factors, namely quality standards, management, involvement of people, process design and process, planning and scheduling to assess non-conformance to quality requirements in low-income housing projects in South Africa. The finding of this study provides a platform for improving the quality of housing design, construction projects, sustainability and an opportunity for local and international design and construction professionals to rethink design in the context of low-income housing projects.

scholarly journals Significant Factors Affecting Civil Engineering Project Performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 266 ◽  
pp. 01013
Author(s):  
Wan Norizan Wan Ismail ◽  
Hamimah Adnan ◽  
Ahmad Arzlee Hassan ◽  
Noor Aisyah Asyikin Mahat ◽  
Har Einur Azrin Baharuddin
Keyword(s):  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Engineering Project ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Project Characteristics ◽  
Key Participants ◽  
Engineering Projects ◽  
Significant Factors

Civil engineering projects trigger the economic growth by providing infrastructure facilities and job opportunities as well as attracting the attention of foreign investments. Due to their significant contributions toward the nation growth, the performance of civil engineering projects has become the upmost concern by the government. Unfortunately, many civil engineering projects in Malaysia are dominantly associated with unsatisfactory performance in terms of cost, time and quality of the delivered products. Therefore, this paper aims to identify the underlying causes which lead to unsatisfactory performance by determining the factors affecting civil engineering projects. The objective of this paper is to identify the civil engineering project characteristics and the quality of Standard Form of Contract (SFoC) adopted and the contractual behaviour of key participants of civil engineering project which affecting the performance. Questionnaires survey were conducted to undertake the research. 124 feedbacks received out of 300 questionnaires distributed to the G7 contractors registered under Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) and consultant engineer registered under Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM). The data was statistically analysed using SPSS 21 and descriptive analysis was used for rank assessment of factors. It was found that the top three (3) most significant factors affecting civil engineering project performance are delay in making payment, environment uncertainty and the clarity of SFoC. These factors belong to three categories i.e the contractual behaviour of key participants, project characteristics and the quality of SFoC category. Thus, these categories are paramount to be put more concern on the performance of civil engineering projects in Malaysia.

The Relationship between Architectural Materials and Human Settlements

2014 ◽  
Vol 672-674 ◽  
pp. 1843-1846
Author(s):  
Li Xia He ◽  
Qian Zhang ◽  
Tao Jiao
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Human Settlement ◽  
Human Settlements ◽  
Manufacturing Performance ◽  
Development Direction ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Engineering Projects

This paper expounds the relationship between architectural materials and human settlement and elaborates the importance of production, manufacturing, performance and quality of architectural materials in protecting the environment and improving human settlements proceeding from the impact of architectural material improvement on civil engineering projects and human settlements. In addition, this Paper expounds the development direction and importance of new architectural materials proceeding from resource and energy conservation, natural environment and ecological balance protection, sustainable development of civil engineering and human settlements improvement.

scholarly journals Demotivating factors influencing the productivity of civil engineering projects

2004 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.Thomas Ng ◽  
R.Martin Skitmore ◽  
Ka Chi Lam ◽  
Anthony W.C. Poon
Keyword(s):  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Engineering Projects

scholarly journals Factors influencing the implementation of the auditor general’s recommendations in South African municipalities

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesedi S. Matlala ◽  
Dominique E. Uwizeyimana
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Local Government ◽  
South African ◽  
Progress Monitoring ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
The South ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Auditor General

Background: The establishment of democratic local government in South Africa in 2000 decentralised the decision-making powers from the centre to the periphery. Municipalities are accountable for their own financial preparation and the planning of their budgetary processes. Notwithstanding the enormous investment in terms of resources, empirical studies and municipal audit reports revealed that most of the South African municipalities were not taking corrective action on the issues of irregularities raised in prior year audits; hence, some of the weaknesses and problems remained unresolved or were recurring yearly.Objectives: To identify and discuss the factors that influence municipalities’ failure to implement audit recommendations given by the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) efficiently and effectively.Methods: The research methodology used in this study was mainly qualitative and relied heavily on robust literature study and the review of key official documents, such as reports on local government performance.Results: The main findings of this study are that factors influencing implementation of audit recommendation include availability of resources and time, lack of audit action monitoring processes, absence of authority, staffing problems and sometimes the poor quality of audit recommendations.Conclusion: To deal with these problems, the study recommends a number of practical strategies. These include regular progress monitoring, improving the quality of the AGSA’s recommendations and the amendment of the Public Audit Act to empower the auditor general. Most importantly, the study recommends the establishment of a monitoring and evaluation (ME) unit to regularly track progress for proper implementation of audit recommendations in the South African municipalities.

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