Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) has rebranded its annual conference to the CESA Infrastructure Indaba. CESA recognises that the conference is a tripartite alliance between the 3CStakeholders (Consulting Engineers, Contractors and Clients), all working together to improve the quality of life of our people.
The CESA Infrastructure Indaba will be held from 9-10 November 2015 at Emperors Palace, aiming to stimulate debate on key issues. The Theme is “Working Towards Improved Delivery of Infrastructure & Engineering Services”.
According to the National Development Plan South Africa will need to spend at least 30% of its GDP on infrastructure development to allow infrastructure to have a meaningful contribution in eradicating poverty, halving the unemployment rate and contributing to economic growth to the desired level of between 5 and 7% per annum by 2030. Currently the country is only managing 22.9% of GDP on infrastructure spending with the public sector contributing 13.95% and the private sector 8.95%. The respective targets for the public and private sectors are 20% and 10%.
Topics to be covered at the conference include: – Procurement or ‘misprocurement’; Service delivery through Engineering Infrastructure; Human Capital development (Recognition of the engineering profession and Succession Planning & leadership development); Infrastructure Funding – Collaborations and Corruption (values or ethics).
