Thesis (DTech (Civil Engineering))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016. / South Africa’s government is faced with the challenge of providing housing for its citizens,
especially the historically disadvantaged population who seek job opportunities and
improvement on their life style in urban areas. To achieve this laudable goal, the South
African construction industry must be proactive in its approach to the construction of
affordable housing, and must adopt construction strategies that enhances sustainable
housing development. Born from this challenge is the need for research to establish how
sustainable development concepts could be integrated into housing construction processes,
with a view to develop strategies to achieve affordable housing that enhances sustainability,
to cater for South Africans in need of decent accommodation.
The study developed a conceptual model through extensive review of extant literature; South
Africa housing policy and legislation, sustainable construction and development, socioeconomic
considerations for sustainable building development, and strategies for sustainable
building construction amongst other were reviewed. The study adopted a sequential mixed
method approach for data gathering, whereby an initial qualitative pilot survey was conducted
to test the existence of the research problems identified in this study and to validate the
conceptual model constructs.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:cput/oai:localhost:20.500.11838/2482 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Creators | Ganiyu, Bashir Olanrewaju |
| Contributors | Fapohunda, Ayodeji, Haldenwang, Rainer |
| Publisher | Cape Peninsula University of Technology |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/za/ |
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