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Policy Implementation a Key Challenge

Date: 30th August 2019 By: Darren Parker Legislative body Council for the Built Environment (CBE) will host its third Transformation Indaba, themed Breaking the Barriers, to address the lacklustre implementation of transformation policies within the built environment professions. The event will be held on October…

Identification of Work (IDoW) – SACLAP

Date: 19 August 2019 The Scope of Work for Categories of Registration of the Landscape Architectural Profession The CBE Act impels the CBE to, after consultation with the Competition Commission (CC) and in consultation with the Councils for the Built Environment Professions (CBEP), identify the…

Identification Of Work (IDoW) – SACQSP

Date Published: 23 July 2019 Preamble to the publication of the Scope of Work for Categories of Registration of the Quantity Surveying Profession The CBE Act impels the CBE to, after consultation with the Competition Commission (CC) and in consultation with the Councils for the…

Identification Of Work (IDoW) – Update

Date: 29 March 2019 Two previous updates (on28 September and 14 December 2018)alluded to a new approach to identification of work, further engagement with the Competition Commission (CC) and the regulation of the built environment professions. These matters are still relevant and are receiving ongoing…

Construction sector plagued by Intimidation Tactics

Midrand The South Africa Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP) has strongly condemned all incidences of intimidation and alleged “construction mafia” activity related to projects and construction sites that have plagued the sector with alarming increase as of lately. Download: SACPCMP Media…

Protecting The Public

Date: 23 November 2018 The Council for the Built Environment (CBE) wishes to inform the public of its role in public protection. As a government entity reporting to the Minister of Public Works, it has an obligation to act in the best interests of the…

Identification Of Work (IDoW) – Update

Date: 28 September 2018 CBE is impelled by section 21(2) of The Council for the Built Environment Act, 43 of 2000 (the CBE Act) to identify the scope of work for each category of registered persons. The process is referred to as the identification of…

Update on IDoW

Legislation enabling the Council for the Built Environment (CBE) and the six councils for the built environment professions (the CBEP) requires a process by which work only to be performed by a person registered in the appropriate category, be identified. This process is referred to…

CBE leaves its Mark in the Eastern Cape

Date: 29 March 2017 As its CSI initiative, the Council for the Built Environment (CBE) handed over the mobile science laboratory used to conduct its Maths and Science support programme to the Eastern Cape Department of Education. The handover ceremony took place on Wednesday, 15…