CONSTRUCTION CONFERENCE

CONSTRUCTION CONFERENCE: DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA 29-31 October 2006
The theme of this conference was Uniting the Construction Industry for accelerated growth, development and transformation.

Minister Thoko Didiza opened the Conference with reference to the booming construction industry which will need to double its current output of R100 billion annually to meet the public and private sector growth targets leading to 2014. ‘This, in a nutshell, is the broad challenge,’ the Minister told delegates.

The Government aims to halve poverty and unemployment by 2014 as part of the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative of South Africa (ASGISA) and announced that R372 billion would be spent on infrastructure development over the next few years.

The 500 delegates from the South African Construction, Engineering and Banking sectors – as well as government and organised industry bodies attending the two-day conference – were discussing key challenges facing the burgeoning construction sector, including transformation, unification, skills shortages and gender issues.

A selection of the presentations made during the two day conference follows hereunder:

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• Construction Conference Sunday 29 October, Vuyisile Hlabangane (859 KB)
• SA Economy: recent trends and prospects, Dennis Dykes (601 KB)
• Construction Organisations, Bryan (32 KB)
• Medium Term Budget Policy Statement, Andrew Donaldson (713 KB)
• Joint Initiative on Priority Skills Acquisition, Glen Fisher (254 KB)
• Skills for Infrastructure Delivery in South Africa, Rodney Milford and Ntebo Ngozwana (1.1 MB)
• The Charter: A Review of Implementation, James Ngobeni and Hylton Macdonald (730 KB)
• The Construction Charter, Mike Wylie (95 KB)

	SAIA had a stand at the Construction Conference in which it displayed the Awards for Excellence. The Awards presentation, with images of all the Awards of Merit, was screened during the breaks and over lunch. The Interim Management Committee of SAIA attended the Conference as SAIA’s official representatives. Members of the Management Committee pictured are (L to R): Al Stratford, Trish Emmett, Kwasi Agyare-Dwomoh, Su Linning, Hassan Asmal and Gillian Adendorff.
	SAIA’s Office Manager Jacquie Cullis assisted in putting the stand up and was in attendance on the first day to respond to delegate queries about the Institute.