TY - GEN
T1 - Construction Sustainability
T2 - 15th Built Environment Conference, 2021
AU - Nyakala, Kgashane Stephen
AU - Vermeulen, Andre
AU - Pretorius, Jan Harm
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This research aim is to investigate the factors influencing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) development and delivery challenges of road infrastructure in the Limpopo province of South Africa. Sustainable construction, transformation and technology are characteristically dynamic and complex. The analysis of qualitative data gathered through in-depth interviews with contractors, architects and project/construction managers in all five cases resulted in the emergence of variety of factors influencing delivery challenges of road infrastructure in construction SMEs. Primary data were collected through a number of depth interviews with construction SMEs experts and project managers. Secondary data were collected through construction SME organisations’ documents written procedures, transformation and technological issues. The main findings of this study showed there was a huge delivery challenges related to road infrastructure in the construction industry, i.e. poor construction design, lack of technical and engineering abilities, inadequate management involvement and support, unclear targets to sustainability in building construction, lack of technological skills, improper training of the team members and inadequate use of information and communication technologies.
AB - This research aim is to investigate the factors influencing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) development and delivery challenges of road infrastructure in the Limpopo province of South Africa. Sustainable construction, transformation and technology are characteristically dynamic and complex. The analysis of qualitative data gathered through in-depth interviews with contractors, architects and project/construction managers in all five cases resulted in the emergence of variety of factors influencing delivery challenges of road infrastructure in construction SMEs. Primary data were collected through a number of depth interviews with construction SMEs experts and project managers. Secondary data were collected through construction SME organisations’ documents written procedures, transformation and technological issues. The main findings of this study showed there was a huge delivery challenges related to road infrastructure in the construction industry, i.e. poor construction design, lack of technical and engineering abilities, inadequate management involvement and support, unclear targets to sustainability in building construction, lack of technological skills, improper training of the team members and inadequate use of information and communication technologies.
KW - Challenges
KW - Construction sustainability
KW - Road infrastructure
KW - Small and medium enterprises
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85134182291&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-97748-1_29
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-97748-1_29
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85134182291
SN - 9783030977474
T3 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
SP - 375
EP - 388
BT - Construction in 5D
A2 - Haupt, Theo C.
A2 - Akinlolu, Mariam
A2 - Simpeh, Fredrick
A2 - Amoah, Christopher
A2 - Armoed, Zakheeya
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 27 September 2021 through 28 September 2021
ER -
