Manual 1: The fundamentals of road construction [file size 906 KB]
	Manual 2: Planning and contract management [file size 805 KB]
	Manual 3: Gravel pavement layers [file size 3 443 KB]
	Manual 4: Bituminous pavement seals [file size 2 853 KB]
	Manual 5: Concrete and masonry drainage works and structures [file size 5 060 KB]
	Workshop Drawings [file size 352 KB]

The South African White Paper Creating an Enabling Environment for Reconstruction, Growth and Development in the Construction Industry (1999), expresses a vision for public sector delivery aimed at optimising employment opportunities through labour-intensive construction. This can be realised in the delivery of infrastructure through the adoption, where technically and economically feasible, of

• labour-based methods of construction and manufacture where labour, utilising hand tools and light equipment, is preferred to the use of heavy equipment for specific activities; and
• labour-based technologies where there is a shift in balance between labour and equipment, in the way the work is specified and executed for selected works components.

This cidb practice manual for Implementing Employment Intensive Road Works follows on from the cidb‘s guide to best practice for Labour-based Methods and Technologies for Employment- Intensive Construction Works. The latter covers a broad spectrum of construction works. It establishes desirable and appropriate standards, processes, procedures and methods; relating to the design and implementation of labour-based construction technologies, methods for earthworks and for materials manufacture. This first set of guidelines provides sufficient technical information to enable those, responsible for the design of projects, to make confident and informed choices on their use in projects.

The aim of this series of manuals is twofold, namely to provide a:

• contractors construction guide, and a
• designers and supervisors guide for contractors, designers and supervisors involved in the construction and upgrading of roads using labour and light plant.

The need for these technical manuals was identified during the training of SME contractors, involved in the Gundo Lashu programme in Limpopo Province – a programme of labour based upgrading of rural roads, promoted by the Department of Public Works, Roads and Transport in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation (ILO).