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Health, Safety and Environment

• The economic and social impacts of site accidents on the South African society
• Client commitment and attitude to construction health and safety in Botswana
• Improving site management process through ICT
• A literature review on the application of titanium dioxide reactive surfaces on urban infrastructure for depolluting and selfcleaning applications
• The impact of HIV/AIDS on skills availability in South African coal mines

Empowerment and Emerging Contractors

• The role of total quality management as a key intervention in small construction contractor capacity building in South Africa
• Critical success factors for small and medium sized contractors in North West Province, South Africa
• Unfinished business: current challenges and problems facing small and medium size contractors in Swaziland
• Financial needs of small and medium scale contractors in South Africa
• Uncovering the origins of variation orders

Best Practice, Quality and Productivity

• Quality management in construction project design and management
• Defects in the construction industry - then and now
• Construction industry standardisation and effective communication
• How can information and communication technology reduce inefficiencies in the construction industry?
• Effectiveness of project debriefing procedures: a case study of the KZN region of South Africa

Construction Project Management

• Motivation as a tool to improve productivity on the construction site
• Investigating the contractor's risk sources associated with the principal building agreement in South Africa
• The benefits of using constructablity during the design process
• Effective and efficient project management on government projects
• Delay analysis and its potential to reduce situations resulting in claims and losses

Human Resources, Decision Making and Risks

• The viability of corridor development between Bloemfontein and Welkom
• A need for a transformation strategy for facilities management in the public sector
• A practical approach to calculate acceleration costs on construction projects in South Africa
• Criteria for outsourcing of facilities management functions by the United Nations
• Investigating a tool for modelling the supplyside profile of South Africa's built environment professionals (BEPs)

Procurement Strategies

• South African public private partnership (PPP) projects: a systemic model for planning and implementation
• Partnering within the design team
• Factors constraining the implementation of public private partnerships in the electricity sector in Uganda
• Assessing supply and demand for emerging contractor development programmes

Education and Training

• Influential elements of curriculum development for masters real estate education in South Africa: a literature research
• An investigation into informal craft skilling in the Kenyan and South African construction sectors
• Guideline for improved relationship between learner contractor and site supervisors in the expanded public works programme's contractor learnership programme
• A model towards an enhanced tertiary built environment education

Affordable Housing and Sustainable Construction

• Open standard building in South Africa: new concepts, strategies and technologies
• Assessing the sustainability performance of the 2010 FIFA World Cup stadia using the sustainable building assessment tool (SBAT) for stadia
• The people's housing process (PHP) scheme in Gauteng province of South Africa - lessons learnt
• The process of testing community's acceptability of high quality earth constructed building methods as a means to support local economic development