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ASSESSING THE CONDITION OF SOUTH AFRICA’S INFRASTRUCTURE BY REPORT CARD SYSTEM

ASSESSING THE CONDITION OF SOUTH AFRICA’S INFRASTRUCTURE BY REPORT CARD SYSTEM. Kevin Wall SATC Pretoria, July 2017.

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ASSESSING THE CONDITION OF SOUTH AFRICA’S INFRASTRUCTURE BY REPORT CARD SYSTEM

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  1. ASSESSING THE CONDITION OF SOUTH AFRICA’S INFRASTRUCTURE BY REPORT CARD SYSTEM Kevin Wall SATC Pretoria, July 2017

  2. Infrastructure, in the form of public buildings, roads, water and sewerage systems, electricity and other services, supports quality of life and is the foundation of a healthy economy

  3. Emphasise the importance of infrastructure – and the need to measure its condition. • Bring importance of maintenance to the attention of decision makers. • Lobby for improvement.

  4. What we want to see happen: A co-ordinated, long term sustainable approach. Infrastructure maintenance must rank higher for limited public funds. Effective use of limited resources through partnerships. All levels of government must take difficult decisions. Concerted efforts at improving the skills base. Change society demand behaviour.

  5. Sectors covered 2017: Water and sanitation Solid waste management Roads Airports Ports Rail Electricity Hospitals and clinics Schools Universities and TVET colleges (new)

  6. Why is this condition rating being done by CSIR and SAICE?

  7. What did 2006 report card say?

  8. What did the 2011 report card say?

  9. Finding • Marginal improvement (overall: D+ to C-) • This average improvement: heavy investment, especially in ports, rail, airports and national roads. • However: “… the quality and reliability of basic infrastructure serving the majority of our citizens is poor and, in many places, getting worse. Urgent attention is required ….”

  10. Finding • Marginal improvement (overall: D+ to C-) • This average improvement: heavy investment, especially in ports, rail, airports and national roads. • However: “… the quality and reliability of basic infrastructure serving the majority of our citizens is poor and, in many places, getting worse. Urgent attention is required ….”

  11. Issues encountered: Availability of information. Severe shortage of skills. Inadequate funding of maintenance. Systems nature of infrastructure services delivery (including: absence of life-cycle costing; lowest capital price procurement). Sustainability (including: high levels of wastage; civic disrespect for infrastructure; and job creation potential).

  12. Looking ahead to the new, 2017, report card.

  13. The issues, as in 2006 and 2011, but with: Maintenance deferred for short-term expediency, with longer term consequences. More, and more destructive, “service delivery” protests. Greatly increased theft and vandalism. Limited success with, for example, water demand management. Higher profile for climate change resilience.

  14. Opinion survey A new feature in 2017, still being developed, will be an opinion survey, the objective of which is to collect data on the views of professionals and members of the public who are not involved in the report card process, in order to augment the report card’s assessments.

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  16. Awareness of the issue: Report Card Inform, draw attention, motivate, create space ….. What to do: “Maintenance management standard for immovable assets” ISO 55000 family … How to get it done … The path to improvement of infrastructure condition

  17. http://www.civils.org.za kevin.wall@up.ac.za

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