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Examining the Influence Facility Managers exert within the Urban Domain: A case study of the Cape Metropole area
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Utilizing principal agent and principal steward theories to assess the efficiacy of public private partnership in delivering black economic empowerment
Published 2014“…The identification of the construction industry as the flagship empowerment environment was due to its peculiarities of yielding more employment for a given capital flow and the low entrance barriers advocating for its amenability for a farreaching BEE inclusiveness. …”
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Modelling the relationship between project payment systems, financial management strategies and construction organisation performance in South Africa
Published 2022“…The study contributes to the knowledge of payment systems and construction company performance, and the research and practical implications of the payment systems for the operations and performance of construction firms.…”
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Modelling uncertainty of cost and time in infrastructure projects
Published 2020“…The contributions of the study to construction management knowledge include a clear definition of uncertainty and the sources of uncertainties in the construction of infrastructure projects; an in-depth understanding of the construction process of linear infrastructure projects; and an improvement in the quality of data used (combination of experts’ estimation and historical data) for research in the area of project performance. …”
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A collective self-governance framework for urban facilities management settings: application at public transport interchanges in economically depressed areas in Cape Town
Published 2024“…The merging of these three theories produced five critical constructs that were utilised to develop the conceptual framework: place attachment, group-based anger, group identification, group efficacy, and collective selfgovernance. …”
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Constructive environmental scanning: A method in creating positive world paradigms for more sustainable alternative futures
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Investigating factors influencing sustainable development, performance, and delivery processes of green construction projects in south africa
Published 2024“…It also emerged that there is a significant relationship between these factors, sustainable development, and the sustainability performance of green construction projects. Based on these findings, the study concludes that clients and project stakeholders with knowledge of the factors influencing the development of green buildings are likely to develop green and sustainable projects. …”
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Condom use and HIV testing behaviours of men working in the construction industry in Western Cape, South Africa
Published 2025“…This study addresses this gap by empirically testing the Health Belief Model (HBM) and the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) within a purposive sample of men who are at high risk for HIV/AIDS and hard-to-reach through traditional health facility-based interventions, male construction workers. The study found that an integrated model combining HBM and TPB constructs provided a statistically significant explanation of HIV testing and condom use. …”
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A critical analysis of men's constructions of paying for sex: doing gender, doing race in the interview context
Published 2018“…Moreover, it argues that men valued the client-sex worker encounter as a "safe space" where sex workers, whom they constructed as their experienced teachers, would teach them the sexual skills that they (felt they) needed to better approximate idealised versions of masculinity outside of the paid encounter. …”
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A construction of the social identities of retired white Afrikaner ex-military (SADF) servicemen in South Africa.
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Ulwaluko and Masculinity: Understanding the Social Construction of Manhood Among Xhosa Men in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Reporting for safety : towards a complexity framework informing the social construction of multi-level stakeholder behaviour
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Constructing a pedagogical third space with multilingual children: A case study of the bilingual Stars of Today Literacy Club# (STLC#)
Published 2022“…My research aimed to answer the questions: How is a bi-multilingual, multimodal third space co-constructed in an after-school literacy club? How do children from marginalised communities conceptualise language and literacy learning? …”
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Project Leanness Score: A Machine Learning Approach
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Developing a building sustainability assessment model for the South African built environment : searching for new appoaches to improve the effectiveness of building assessment
Published 2019“…The fundamental premise of research presented in this thesis is the search for conceptual approaches and practical measures to enhance the practice of building assessment in fostering sustainable construction. Hence, this thesis advances the theory for the practice of building assessment that incorporates the principles of sustainable development. …”
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