1. Biannual Economic and Capacity Survey
July – December 2014

2. Firm distribution based on Annual Turnover (based on responses received)
January – June 2014
July – December 2014
Category by gross annual income
% of firms
0 – R1,5m
10%
R1,5m – R11,5m
51%
> R11,5m
39%
Total
100.0%
Category by gross annual income
% of firms
0 – R1,5m
19%
R1,5m – R11,5m
46%
> R11,5m
35%
Total
100.0%
Source: CESA BECS

3. Profile of respondents – by firm size Based on full and part time employment
Source: CESA BECS

4. Fee earnings vs Gross Fixed Capital Formation (Res, Non-Res, Construction works) |Rbn, Constant 2005 prices
Source: RBQN, CESA BECS, Industry Insight

5. Consulting Engineering Earnings Percentage of GDP / GFCF construction
Source: RBQN, CESA BECS, Industry Insight

6. Fee income, R billions Real 2000 prices
Annualised | Deflator = CPI
Source: CESA BECS

7. Real Fee income, Real prices
Annual Change | Deflator = CPI
Source: CESA BECS

8. CESA Confidence Index
Source: CESA BECS

9. Business confidence vs CESA confidence
Source: CESA BECS, BER

10. Real Fee income
Income deflated using CPI
Source: CESA BECS

11. Real Fee income vs Industry confidence
Income deflated using CPI
Source: CESA BECS

12. CESA Labour Cost Indicator vs CPI
Year on Year percentage change
Source: CESA BECS

13. Employment vs REAL fee income (Rbn)
(Deflated using the CPI & LCI)
CPI: Consumer price index
LCI : Labour Cost Indicator
Source: CESA BECS

14. Salary and wage vs Employment
Source: CESA BECS

15. Salary and wage bill | Percentage of gross fee earnings
Source: CESA BECS

16. Average Discounting rate
Source: CESA BECS

17. Fee income earned by Sub-disciplines: % Share
Source: CESA BECS

18. Fee income earned by Sub-disciplines: % Share Change in market share in the last 6 months
Source: CESA BECS

19. Fee income earned by TOP THREE disciplines: R bn Real 2000 prices Moving average (2 survey period): 2002 – December 2014
Source: CESA BECS

20. Fee income earned by economic sector Percentage market share December 2013 – December 2014
Source: CESA BECS

21. Profile of earnings by sector R24bn annualised current prices

22. Fee earnings by selected sector R billions, Real 2000 prices | Smoothed |2 survey average
Source: CESA BECS

23. Fee income (Rm, Real prices) earned by key economic sectors
June 2005 – December 2014
Source: CESA BECS

24. Provincial Market Share: December 2014
Vs change in market share from December 2013
market share
GAIN
Source: CESA BECS

25. Fee income earned by province (Rbn, real prices)
High Capacity economies |TREND Annualised smoothed, average over 2 past surveys
Source: CESA BECS

26. Fee income earned by province
June 1999– December 2014| Rm real prices
Source: CESA BECS

27. Fee income earned by province
June 1999– December 2014| Rm real prices
Source: CESA BECS

28. Provincial profile by economic sector where fee earnings >50% of total earnings
Source: CESA BECS

29. Fee income earned (Real 2000 prices)
High Capacity vs lower capacity provincial economies |Smoothed
81% of fees were earned in high capacity provinces
Source: CESA BECS

30. Contribution of high capacity provinces to total fee earnings
Source: CESA BECS

31. Fee income earned : RSA vs EX-RSA
R mill, Real 2000 prices | Annualised, smoothed
75% of fees were earned in South Africa
Source: CESA BECS

32. Fee income earned by type of client
Percentage share as at December 2014
Source: CESA BECS

33. Fee income earned by type of client
Percentage share
Source: CESA BECS

34. Fee income earned by type of client
R billion Real 2000 prices | Annualised, smoothed - avg over 2 survey periods
Source: CESA BECS

35. Fee income earned by type of client
R billions Real 2000 prices | Annualised, smoothed - average over 2 survey periods
Source: CESA BECS

36. Competition in tendering
Percentage of respondents that reported “Fierce” competition
Source: CESA BECS

37. % of Firms wanting to increase staff
Source: CESA BECS

38. Engineering Skills Shortfall
Source: CESA BECS

39. % of firms that reported experiencing problems recruiting the right people
Source: CESA BECS

40. Bursaries % of Salary / Wage bill Trend line – 2 year average
Source: CESA BECS

41. Bursaries
R mill Real 2000 prices (Annualised)
Source: CESA BECS

42. Training (Salaries and Direct Training Costs)
Percentage of Salaries/Wages
Trend line – 2 year average
Data not available
Data not available
Source: CESA BECS

43. Training (Salaries and Direct Training Costs)
Rbn, Real 2000 prices
Trend line – 2 year average
Data not available
Data not available
Source: CESA BECS

44. Training (Direct costs)
% of Salary/Wage bill
Trend line – 2 year average
Source: CESA BECS

45. Training (Direct costs)
Rand millions, Real 2000 prices
Trend line – 2 year average
Source: CESA BECS

46. Industry Capacity Utilisation
Of existing technical staff
Source: CESA BECS

47. Summary of selected indicators by firm size category
Capacity Utilisation of existing technical staff during the past 6 months
% of Respondents that expect capacity utilization of technical staff to increase over the next 6 months
Average discount being offered by respondents in tendering situation to clients, benchmarked against the ECSA guideline fee scales
% of Respondents that reported FIERCE Competition for work during the last six months
Large
79.8
14.3
38.13
63.1
Medium
96.4
40.5
27.69
36.7
Small
92.7
62.3
18.50
6.3
Micro
91.1
15.1
21.50
45.3
Industry Average
90.2 (Weighted)
21.0 (Weighted)
25.8(Weighted)
52.7 (Weighted)
Source: CESA BECS

48. Total fee income outstanding for longer than 90 days
Percentage of total fee income earned
Trend line – 2 year average
Source: CESA BECS

49. Escalation trends: CPI
Year-on-Year Percentage Change
CPI Basket Revised in January 2013
Forecasts based on latest Treasury estimates (Budget 2015)
Source: Treasury estimates Budget 2015

50. Labour unit cost indicator
Year-on-Year % Change (Smoothed)
Source: CESA BECS

51. Labour unit cost indicator
Annual Average Year-on-Year Percentage Change
Source: CESA BECS

52. CESA labour costs outpace CPI
Source: CESA BECS, Statistics South Africa

53. Profile by Race
Source: CESA BECS

54. Profile of Professional Engineers by Race
Source: CESA BECS

55. Typical Employment Breakdown July – December 2014
Source: CESA BECS

56. Overall Employment Breakdown, by race December 2007– December 2014
43.9%
Source: CESA BECS

57. Employment profile
Black only (excluding Asian / Coloured) representation of total employment % Share of total employment
Source: CESA BECS

58. Changing profile of female engineers
Source: CESA BECS

59. Executive Staff: % Share of total employment PTY, CC & Partnerships
Source: CESA BECS

60. Black Executive Staff : (including Asian and Coloured)
% Share of total Executive Staff
Source: CESA BECS

61. African (Black) Executive Staff
as % of total Executive | December 2008 – December 2014
Source: CESA BECS

62. Quality Management System
Source: CESA BECS

63. ISO 9001:2008 Certificate
Source: CESA BECS

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