Causes and impacts of delays in low-income housing projects in the greater Nelson Mandela Bay and Buffolo City Municipality
- Authors: Xongo, Nwabisa
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Project management -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality , Project management -- South Africa -- Buffalo City Municipality Low-income housing -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Public housing -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Housing development -- South Africa Construction industry -- Management
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/36259 , vital:33916
- Description: A construction project depends upon having correct people with the correct skills and usable equipment, therefore to deliver the project on time, on budget and specified quality. Project success can be attained if the construction works moves professionally within the time schedule. Delays to projects mean the go slow of process and all other related fields. The main aim of this study is to assess the numerous causes of delays and reasons for those delays that are currently affecting the project in low income housing projects in Nelson Mandela Bay and Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality.
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- Date Issued: 2018
- Authors: Xongo, Nwabisa
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: Project management -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality , Project management -- South Africa -- Buffalo City Municipality Low-income housing -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Public housing -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Housing development -- South Africa Construction industry -- Management
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/36259 , vital:33916
- Description: A construction project depends upon having correct people with the correct skills and usable equipment, therefore to deliver the project on time, on budget and specified quality. Project success can be attained if the construction works moves professionally within the time schedule. Delays to projects mean the go slow of process and all other related fields. The main aim of this study is to assess the numerous causes of delays and reasons for those delays that are currently affecting the project in low income housing projects in Nelson Mandela Bay and Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality.
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- Date Issued: 2018
Mental stress among civil engineering construction site agents and foremen in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropole
- Authors: Haydam, Erich
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: Project management -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality , Civil engineers -- Job stress -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality , Construction industry -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/5545 , vital:20901
- Description: The civil engineering sector of the construction industry as a whole has been suffering from mental stress due to a lack of stress management interventions, rendering employees vulnerable to burnout, poor mental health, and subject to injury on site. The rationale of this study is to explore the prevalence of mental stress in the civil engineering sector of the construction industry, and the potential causes of stress, vis-à-vis the effects it has on an individual. An empirical study based on a descriptive and analytical survey method was conducted among medium to large civil engineering contractors in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropole (NMBM). The study adopted the use of questionnaires, and a review of the related literature to effectively summarise and describe the collected field data. The sample stratum included civil engineering site agents and foremen. The salient findings include: high job demands, low job control, and low job social support are contributors to stress; site agents and foremen long for more time spent with family and friends; site agents and foremen are exposed to various physical, organisational and socio-economic stressors; site agents and foremen are displaying coping strategies unsupportive of a healthy lifestyle; there is a lack of awareness of stress management in the civil engineering sector of the construction industry; the level of stress experienced by site agents and foremen is rated as a lesser extent; the prevalence of depression among site agents and foremen is rated as a lesser extent; site agents and foremen are at risk of injury due to feeling stressed, and site agents and foremen are exposed to a range of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) due to poor ergonomics, and possibly stress too. It can be concluded that stress negatively affects the civil engineering sector of the construction industry by, inter alia, increased employee absence, injuries and accidents, higher staff turnover, depression, and lower levels of production. Furthermore, stress may lead to eventual burnout, rendering an individual at a significantly higher risk of developing physical health complications. Recommendations include: organisations to address the problem of work-family imbalance, by providing more time off to spend with family and loved ones. v Organisations need to promote and implement internal coping strategies, to assist those who are facing strain to effectively deal with their stress. More support from line managers to employees should be provided, as this will increase their resources in terms of job support, job demand, and job control in their working environment. Also, organisations need to promote teambuilding activities and exercise among their employees. Lastly, organisational policy and government legislation need to be revised in the long term, to provide for individual mental wellbeing, and reduced occupational stress.
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- Date Issued: 2016
- Authors: Haydam, Erich
- Date: 2016
- Subjects: Project management -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality , Civil engineers -- Job stress -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality , Construction industry -- South Africa -- Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSc
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/5545 , vital:20901
- Description: The civil engineering sector of the construction industry as a whole has been suffering from mental stress due to a lack of stress management interventions, rendering employees vulnerable to burnout, poor mental health, and subject to injury on site. The rationale of this study is to explore the prevalence of mental stress in the civil engineering sector of the construction industry, and the potential causes of stress, vis-à-vis the effects it has on an individual. An empirical study based on a descriptive and analytical survey method was conducted among medium to large civil engineering contractors in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropole (NMBM). The study adopted the use of questionnaires, and a review of the related literature to effectively summarise and describe the collected field data. The sample stratum included civil engineering site agents and foremen. The salient findings include: high job demands, low job control, and low job social support are contributors to stress; site agents and foremen long for more time spent with family and friends; site agents and foremen are exposed to various physical, organisational and socio-economic stressors; site agents and foremen are displaying coping strategies unsupportive of a healthy lifestyle; there is a lack of awareness of stress management in the civil engineering sector of the construction industry; the level of stress experienced by site agents and foremen is rated as a lesser extent; the prevalence of depression among site agents and foremen is rated as a lesser extent; site agents and foremen are at risk of injury due to feeling stressed, and site agents and foremen are exposed to a range of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) due to poor ergonomics, and possibly stress too. It can be concluded that stress negatively affects the civil engineering sector of the construction industry by, inter alia, increased employee absence, injuries and accidents, higher staff turnover, depression, and lower levels of production. Furthermore, stress may lead to eventual burnout, rendering an individual at a significantly higher risk of developing physical health complications. Recommendations include: organisations to address the problem of work-family imbalance, by providing more time off to spend with family and loved ones. v Organisations need to promote and implement internal coping strategies, to assist those who are facing strain to effectively deal with their stress. More support from line managers to employees should be provided, as this will increase their resources in terms of job support, job demand, and job control in their working environment. Also, organisations need to promote teambuilding activities and exercise among their employees. Lastly, organisational policy and government legislation need to be revised in the long term, to provide for individual mental wellbeing, and reduced occupational stress.
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- Date Issued: 2016
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