Regular Challenges in Project Management

If you scan available sourecs - internet, journals, magazines - there are always tips and tricks which can help Project Managers to get through their days a little easier. This article gives some ideas of how to avoid time wasters in particular.

Useful references - The Inclusion of Sustainability in Project Management

As a field of knowledge, Sustainability enjoys the attraction of being "cutting edge", relevant and constantly changing, aspects which should be bourne in mind by Project Managers and Construction Professionals.

 

References here provide a good set of guidelines to Project Managers and Construction Professionals working in the sustainability field, or simply including aspects of sustainability in their projects.

 

Sustainability or the lack thereof is a regular hurdle in the development of golf courses. The recent Masters tournament brings Golf Courses and their construction to the fore.

e-Tolling and the Media

The e-Tolling debacle contnues. Unfortunately lazy journalism by ill-informed hacks doesn't help to build a nation trying to strengthen its economy.

Despite this article's inference, only a limited number of the contractors registered with SAFCEC are involved in the GFIP. Reference to a "community" clearly shows ignorance of how concession projects are put together. Clearly there is no understanding of the EIA process required by law, including public participation, and it is unlikely that equity and debt funding participants as well as parastatals accept "shallow feasibility studies" (whatever that means), as the basis for spending billions of rands.

It does seem that journalists (and academics drafted in to write for the newspapers) have established themselves as judge and jury, vigilantes writing what ever pops into their heads in a splatter-gun approach betraying a moment of excitement - perhaps seeing themselves as our saviours!

Of course the construction industry is happy to build something if someone will pay for it, Vaughan Mostert - when you don't get paid you may begin to understand the principle. Your implication that Consultants and Engineers can be bought and sold is libellous and indicates your ignorance of the codes of conduct established by SAICE and ECSA.

We have faith that level-headed engineers and project managers will again resolve the issues created by politicians and the media...!