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Research Articles (Construction Economics)
Recent Submissions
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Masebe, Norman; Paradza, Partson; Zulch, Benita
(Adonis and Abbey, 2024-12-01)
This paper investigated the challenges, impacts, and strategies to deal with digital disruption in retail and how these factors manifest across the hierarchy of South African planned shopping centres. This paper sought to ...
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Wall, Kevin
(University of Free State, 2024-12-10)
This third article in a planned series on the state
of South Africa’s public sector fixed infrastructure
examines the implications of its deteriorating
condition. The first two articles focused on efforts
to monitor ...
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Wall, Kevin
(University of the Free State, 2024)
This article is the second of a planned series being published in this Journal describing investigations of the condition of South Africa’s infrastructure, reasons for/contributory factors to this condition, and the ...
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Akinsomi, Omokolade; Bangura, Mustapha; Yacim, Joseph Awoamim
(Emerald, 2024-12)
PURPOSE :
Several studies have examined the impact of market fundamentals on house prices. However, the effect of economic sectors on housing prices is limited despite the existence of two-speed economies in some ...
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Oladeji, Jonathan Damilola; Zulch, Benita; Yacim, Joseph Awoamim
(MDPI, 2023-09)
This research examines how much forecasting accuracy can be achieved by modelling
the relationships between listed real estate and macroeconomic time series variables using the logit
regression model. The example data ...
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Oladeji, Jonathan Damilola; Zulch, Benita; Yacim, Joseph Awoamim
(Emerald, 2023-06)
PURPOSE – The challenge of accessibility to adequate housing in several countries by a large percentage of citizens has given rise to different housing programs designed to facilitate access to affordable housing. In South ...
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Wall, K.
(University of Free State, 2023-12)
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 ...
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Van Tonder, Francine; Rwelamila, P.D.
(Emerald, 2024-09)
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 ...
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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 ...
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Wall, K.; Chettiar, Shamilla; Laryea, Samuel
(Africa Journals, 2022-10)
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 ...
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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 ...
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Wall, Kevin
(Routledge, 2023)
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 ...
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De Jager, Peta; Wall, Kevin
(South African Institute of Civil Engineers, 2022-09)
The 2006, 2011 and 2017 Report Cards on the condition of built environment fixed infrastructure in South Africa were the product of cooperation between the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the South ...
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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 ...
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Zulch, Benita; Yacim, Joseph Awoamim; Paradza, Partson
(Routledge, 2022)
Zimbabwe’s new administration indicated its willingness to end the compensation dispute, which lasted for two decades with former commercial farmers (FCFs), by signing the global compensation agreement (GCA). In the ...
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Paradza, Partson; Yacim, Joseph Awoamim; Zulch, Benita
(Sciendo, 2021-12)
Property valuation for compensation of expropriated properties in Zimbabwe has been characterised
by inconsistencies for decades. Previous studies have noted that displaced people are dissatisfied with
the compensation ...
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Zulch, Benita; Kitshoff, Jean-Pierre
(Springer, 2021-07)
The purpose of this study is to determine the roles and responsibilities of the project manager on Design-Build projects, in the context of projects completed in the Built Environment in the large metropoles of South Africa, ...
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Yacim, Joseph Awoamim; Paradza, Partson; Zulch, Benita
(Emerald, 2022-04)
PURPOSE : This study aims to examine the statutory provisions as it concerns the practice of valuation for compensation of expropriated communal properties in Zimbabwe. The primary motivation was to have informed policies ...
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Rust, F.C.; Wall, Kevin; Smit, M.A.; Arnod, Salim
(South African Institution of Civil Engineering, 2021-03)
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 ...
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Dlamini, Sizwile Nelisiwe; Cloete, C.E. (Christiaan Ernst)
(Adonis & Abbey Publishers, 2021-06)
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 ...
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