Council for Built Environment 22November 2013 Presented by Gugu Mazibuko Email: gugu@cbe.za

1. Council for Built Environment 22November 2013Presented by Gugu MazibukoEmail: gugu@cbe.org.za

2. BACKGROUND TO THE CBE • The CBE is a statutory Entity established by Council for the Built Environment Act 43 of 2000 • The Act mandates the CBE to oversee and coordinate the activities of the six professional councils regulating professions namely; engineering, architecture, quantity surveying, project and construction management, property valuers and landscape architecture • The CBE started its operations in 2002 • The CBE is governed by a 20 member Council/Board appointed by Minister of Public Works & has 26 staff members & 4 divisions – Skills, Research & Policy, Corporate Services, Legal • In terms of section 55 of the PFMA the Council is the Accounting Authority directly accountable to the Executive Authority (Minister of Public Works)

3. Functions and powers of the CBE • The CBE and Professional Councils have 13 concurrent functions delegated to them by the Act, and these are: • Identification of Work • Guideline Professional Fees • Continuous Professional Development • Accreditation of Built Environment Programmes • Code of Conduct for the Professions • Professional Registration • Recognition of Voluntary Associations • Recognition of New Professions • International Agreements • Recognition of Prior Learning • Standard Generating • Appeals and Tribunals • Competency Standards for Registrations • To ensure consistency in application of these functions and related policies across the six Councils, the CBE develops Policy Frameworks on these functions

4. Source: DBSA

5. Public and Private sector average building and construction investment per decade and per year for 2010 and 2011 Source: SARB online data series

6. ISSUES THAT ARE CURRENTLY SHAPING THE COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES OF CONTRACTORS Source: Rust and Koen (2011)

7. Planned infrastructure drive of government • Government has budget R3,2 trillion in planned infrastructure investment to the year 2020, with R844,5 billion to be spent in the current MTEF period to 2014/15 and R622,8 billion having already been spent in the current MTEF to 2010. • Planned investment will be clustered around 18 Strategic Investment Plans (SIPs) under the co-ordination of the Presidential Investment Coordination Commission (PICC) headed by the President and comprising Provincial Premiers and Local Government Mayors to fast-track and co-ordinate the planned infrastructure projects in 5 to 10 year project pipelines and therefore smooth out construction industry cyclicality.

8. KEY BE DESIGN PROFESSIONS AND THE STAGES OF THE CONSTRUCTION PROCESS CIDB policy space, regulate contractors who build infrastructure to protect the public OPERATIONS AND MAINTANANCE – CBE AND CIDP POLICY SPACE CBE policy space, regulate BEPs who conceptualise and design infrastructure to protect the public

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10. Percentage number of registered Candidates by race and gender . .

11. CBE’s Skills Pipeline Intervention Proposal

12. SKILLS DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES - CBE • 1. School Level Initiatives • Career Awareness Initiatives – videos to increase footprint & reach • Maths & Science support to schools – partnering with already successful entities • GirlEng – excellence in Maths & Science – already supporting • 2. Tertiary Level • Bursary scheme–centralised & formulating comprehensive student support program • Interaction with Academic Institutions : Research Partnerships programmes & input to curriculum(labour intensive construction; health & safety; green agenda) • 3. Recent Graduates/Candidates • Formulated a Workplace Training structured Candidacy Programme with quality assurance guidelines, to enable relevant workplace training & accelerate professional registration. • 4. CPD Programmes • Driven by 6 Professional Councils and Voluntary Associations. • 5. Public Sector Technical Skills Development Initiatives • DPW internal technical skills development initiatives – national & provincial • MISA (Municipal Infrastructure Support Agency) technical skills dev initiatives • Participation in Skills Plan-Presidential Infrastructure Projects – skills plan

13. Proposed solutions regards professional registration • A workplace training programme that links to professional registration. • A framework to understand and monitor what happens at the workplace – no information on every graduate or candidate regarding where they are doing in the workplace; including proper training plans, host workplace checklists, mentors training and agreements and rotation of candidate to cover core areas. • A quality assured, transparent candidacy programme and an unbiased and uniform assessment process of candidates at each professional council. • Packaging incentives for employers who take on candidates and trainees. • Educating the unregistered BE graduates on the importance of registration. • Transformation Implementation model to address skills development based interventions. • Workplace Training Implementation model to address quality assured workplace training that is linked to professional registration – starting with the BE graduates in the public sector and unemployed graduates.

14. Transformation implementation model for the Built Environment Professions Proposals from the Draft Transformation Implementation Model : Proposed Structure • Establishment of a Non-Profit Organisation comprising of a Board of Trustees from CBE, DPW, Dept of Higher Education and Training, Infrastructure Departments,Construction SETA, representatives of the 6 Professional Councils and the Private Sector. Proposed Key Programmes and Proposed Funding Mechanisms 1. Education Upliftment Programme • Maths and Science Grade 8 to 12 upliftment program • Maths and Science Teacher support programme • Career Awareness • Proposed Funding: The National Skills Fund. 2. Bursary Fund Scheme and University Capacity Programme • Central Bursary Scheme • University student support program • Retention of built environment lecturers and programmes • Lecturer support programmes • Built Environment Research Fund with partners Academic Institutions, NRF and Industry • Proposed Funding: Board of Trustees raises 50% of funding and 50% from National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS), SETAs, Employer bodies, DHET, etc. 3. Workplace Learning Support Programme • Structured Candidacy • Workplace training that enables professional registration • Work integrated learning opportunities for University of Technology or Comprehensive University national diploma students • Proposed Funding: Board of Trustees approach SETAs, employer bodies, DHET (NSF), etc, for funding. 4. Registered Professionals Support Programme • Retention program for built environment professionals • Proposed Funding: Employer bodies. 5. Public Sector Professionals Support Programme • Program for built environment professionals in the public sector including municipalities • Proposed Funding: Departmental Budgets, SETAs, DHET (NSF), Treasury

15. Thank you