Infrastructure is designed and built to deliver a
service, but how well the infrastructure is operated
and maintained is a major determinant of how
effectively it is able to deliver that service. Despite
this, much of ...
Van Tonder, Francine; Rwelamila, P.D.(Emerald, 2024)
PURPOSE – One of the greatest challenges faced by the 1994 post-apartheid government in South Africa is the
housing problem that has persisted for almost 30 years into democracy. Innovation in research and practice ...
Sanama, Conrad; Xia, Xiaohua(International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research, 2022-02)
The main objective of this work is to establish a
detailed modelling technique to predict the refrigerant
conditions such as pressure and enthalpy of a Vapor
Compression (VC) system. The steady state modelling
techniques ...
Tourism infrastructure is considered critical for tourism growth and destination competitiveness. Within the complex South African public sector planning system, the responsibility for infrastructure and tourism planning ...
Wall, Kevin(University of the Free State, 2022-12)
Many South African municipalities suffer service-delivery problems that can usually be ascribed to inadequate management, skills, and budgets. The reasons for these, in turn, invariably include weak economic base, unwise ...
The ‘social franchising’ model for the operation and maintenance of selected water and sanitation infrastructure, the conceptual origins of the model, its subsequent development by desktop research methods, and its piloting ...
Wall, Kevin(University of the Free State, 2021-12)
A major objective of local government in South Africa, as defined in the Constitution,
is to ensure the provision of services to communities in a sustainable manner.
However, neglect of infrastructure continues to hamper ...
The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) Infrastructure Report Cards of 2006,
2011 and 2017 reported that much of the South African infrastructure is in a poor condition.
To augment the recent 2017 ...
This study investigated whether a relationship exists between tenant diversity and the return on investment in South African regional and super-regional shopping centres. The Simpson diversity index was used to calculate ...
Yacim, Joseph Awoamim; Boshoff, Douw Gert Brand(Emerald, 2020-04)
PURPOSE : The paper introduced the use of a hybrid system of neural networks support vector machines (NNSVMs) consisting of artificial neural networks (ANNs) and support vector machines (SVMs) to price single-family ...
Boshoff, Douw Gert Brand; Yacim, Joseph Awoamim; Ahmed, Abdullahi Alhassan(Routledge, 2019)
The real estate and valuation discipline has embraced the recent developments in spatial data analysis as a way of remediating obvious limitations of the ordinary least squares (OLS) approach in handling spatial effects. ...
Nava, Fabio Walter(University of Pretoria, 2021-07-01)
Institutional investors and corporates are constantly looking to achieve double digit yields in relation to investments in traditional real estate assets. With retail, office and residential property under pressure the ...
Oladeji, Jonathan; Yacim, Joseph Awoamim; Wall, Kevin; Zulch, Benita(University of Free State, 2020)
This article aims to identify macroeconomic leading
indicators that influence changes in the listed
property price movements in South Africa and
Nigeria. This serves to improve the quantitative
approaches to investment ...
Sekhu, Madimetja Solomon(University of Pretoria, 2020)
The traditional procurement and contracting method within the architectural, engineering and construction industry is often criticised for its fragmented approach and its isolation of designers from contractor and Facilities ...
Hoffman, D.J. (Danie); Huang, Ling-Yi; Van Rensburg, Jean; Yorke-Hart, Amy(University of Free State, 2020)
The South African green building industry is growing
towards maturity. Stakeholders need to observe,
document, and be informed about trends and
development of the industry. This article evaluates
whether application ...
This thesis is primarily concerned with laws guiding valuation for expropriation and compensation in Zimbabwe. The thesis aimed to identify and close gaps in the regulatory and legislative frameworks guiding property ...
Van Heerden, Andries (Hennie); Burger, Michelle; Van Eck, Elzane(Springer, 2020-07)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the brain dominance of quantity surveying students in South Africa and Malaysia to determine the learning style preference to which they best relate. It further aims to establish ...
The world economy continues to grow at an ever-increasing pace and as a result, has created additional demand for new buildings. This has placed an ever-increasing demand for experienced construction managers with learned ...
Mazhinduka, Tino Adrian; Burger, Michelle; Van Heerden, Andries (Hennie)(Springer, 2020-07)
The right to adequate housing is enshrined in the South African constitution. Accordingly, social housing has been identified by the government as one of the strategic interventions to be pursued in the delivery of housing ...
Online retail has grown substantially over the years both globally and in South Africa. Technology continues to impact, influence and shape how and where consumers shop. The South African shopping Centre industry is the ...