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Marx, H (2010) Employers’ and agents’ perspectives of the condition of the construction industry in South Africa. In: Egbu, C (Ed.), Proceedings 26th Annual ARCOM Conference, 6-8 September 2010, Leeds, UK. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Vol. 2, 1329–38.
- Type: Conference Proceedings
- Keywords: construction industry indicators; key performance
- ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-9552390-4-5
- URL: http://www.arcom.ac.uk/-docs/proceedings/ar2010-1329-1338_Marx.pdf
- Abstract:
Annual monitoring of the condition of the South African construction industry is vital to enable government and other role players to evaluate the impact of current interventions and to timely and pro-actively implement revised legislation, strategies and development programmes to act as an updated roadmap for the future well-being and growth of the industry. This monitoring of the construction industry is done annually by the Construction Industry Development Board (cidb) in partnership with the Department of Quantity Surveying and Construction Management of the University of the Free State. A database with contact particulars of employers, contractors and agents involved in 3441 projects completed in 2008 was compiled. Three separate survey forms were faxed or e-mailed to the contractors, employers and agents of these projects. Their responses were captured in a Microsoft Access database. From the 3441 completed projects in the database, 1169 survey forms were received back from contractors, 602 from agents and 332 from employers. The scope of this paper is limited to the results received from the employers and agents. The average perspectives of the respondents were determined for different project types, employer categories and provinces. The main findings were that contractor quality was discarded as being of any importance in many tenders allocated. Agents were only paid on time on 47% of all projects completed. There is a strong indication of political intervention in the tender adjudication procedures of many employers. This research contributes to the understanding of the construction industry and highlights existing problems to solve on the way forward. Government can make use of the results obtained to timely and pro-actively take action, or implement revised legislation, strategies and development programmes to ensure the well-being and growth of the industry.