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Informed by the White Paper: “Creating an enabling environment for reconstruction growth and development of the construction industry” (1999), and the Construction Industry Development Board Act (Act 38 of 2000), two overall questions were asked by this review of the construction industry:

• Are the principal objectives of construction industry development being achieved, and are they the right objectives?
• Is the performance of key delivery sectors and that of the broad policy environment supportive of construction industry development?

The review further seeks to identify key challenges and the necessary action by stakeholders to boost and direct the industry’s development trajectory.

This report draws on the views and insights of a wide range of stakeholders who engage in the delivery process and affect the performance of construction. The views have been obtained through a survey of over 200 representatives of key sectors, including: investors, public and private sector clients, the built environment consulting professions, contractors and subcontractors, organised labour, academics, materials manufacturers and suppliers. The outcome of the survey has been captured in five sector reports, which together informed this synthesis.

Interpretation of trends and challenges has also taken into account the June 2002 and November 2003 Stakeholder Forum Meetings convened by the cidb with 80 forum members representing the full spectrum of public and private sector stakeholder groupings. The views expressed in the survey have been analysed and interpreted against factual information, reports and research studies undertaken by the cidb, institutions such as the CSIR, NACI, the HSRC, the CETA and others.