Built Environment Professions Bill B Submission to the Portfolio Committee on Public Works August 2008 by The South African Institution of Civil Engineering

Built Environment Professions Bill B The South African Institution of Civil Engineering was established in 1903 and is a voluntary organization representing 8700 members including Civil engineers, technologists, technicians & students

What is Civil engineering? What is the essential principle of engineering a bridge?

Engineers do NOT design bridges to stand up

They design them NOT to fall down

Distribution of civil engineering practitioners employed per sector

Transformation since 1993 SAICE moved from a predominantly white male membership with a handful of women in 1980 to 2371 African 343 Asian 167 Coloured 840 Women Out of the 8700 members

Student transformation As a result of team effort between the professions, tertiary institutions and government the student population has transformed radically and continues to do so As a result of team effort between the professions, tertiary institutions and government the student population has transformed radically and continues to do so (Below UoT civil engineering graduations to 2006)

Human adaptability and development of wisdom TAKES A LONG TIME

Transformation in the young group is evident 2004 data EngineerTechnologist Technician All combined Age

Built Environment Professions Bill B The Institution is the custodian of internationally accepted professional and technical standards and competencies on behalf its members

Built Environment Professions Bill B SAICE supports Sustainable Engineering as a pre-requisite for alleviation of poverty alleviation of poverty

Built Environment Professions Bill B In addition a substantial portion of its activities are aimed at building engineering capacity, human resources and decision making capacity for South Africa and for the SADC countries as evident in the Protocol of the Africa Engineers Forum which was established by SAICE in 1995

Built Environment Professions Bill B SAICE& the SAICE Section 21 Company Civils Masakheni has made enormous strides since 1982 and increasingly so since the early nineties to develop engineering capacity and facilitating transformation

Built Environment Professions Bill B Samples of the programmes that were developed and rolled out to effect these changes are: CBE and SAICE award Cuban engineers JIPSA and tertiary interventions ENERGYS Decision making for local authority councilors