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Evaluation of labour-intensive construction projects in Madibeng municipality, North-West Province, South Africa.

The launch of the Expanded Public Works Programme has
led to preferential use of labour-intensive
construction methods over conventional methods in
construction and maintenance of public infrastructure
assets. This report evaluated five bulk water
infrastructure projects in Madibeng Municipality where
labour-intensive construction methods were used.
The research found that factors which adversely
affected construction progress included: inability to
transfer experience and lessons learnt from one project
to the next, skills and experience shortcomings,
administrative and management realities, negative
interventions from stakeholders and failure of the
Municipality to set specific objectives and monitor
project achievements with respect to intended
objectives. Appropriate training and support from
local communities were found to enhance success during
construction.
It was concluded that labour-intensive construction
methods are feasible for bulk water provision projects
and can generate productive significant employment
provided certain basic requirements were in place.
Ultimately the findings led to the compilation of
lessons learnt from the projects.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/4756
Date11 April 2008
CreatorsNgebulana, Matladi Refilwe
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Format520044 bytes, application/pdf, application/pdf

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