The Contractors Plant Hire Association (CPHA) was formed in 1970 to promote the development of the plant hire industry and generally to watch over and protect the interests of it’s members. The Association has it’s headquarters in Benoni, where it has a permanent National office. Regional branches have been established in Durban, East London and Port Elizabeth with membership in all nine provinces as well as in Botswana and Namibia
Continue reading →The Building Industry Bargaining Council (North and West Boland) is responsible for regulating and monitoring employment conditions in the building industry in the North and West Boland areas.
Continue reading →The Concrete Manufacturers Association (CMA) is the primary representative of the precast concrete industry. Now in its 44th year, it initiates standards in close cooperation with StanSA and collaborates with its members in developing new products and services.
The Association’s prime focus is to ensure that its members’ products are applied correctly. A CMA mark serves as a guarantee of quality and the CMA takes responsibility should a problem arise.
Continue reading →The BIBC is responsible for regulating and monitoring employement conditions in the building industry in the Cape PeninsulBoland, Malmesbury and Overstrand areas. By law, all building and building related contractors (i.e. painters, plumbers, etc.) must pay their employees the minimum rates as prescribed and contribute to certain minimum employee benefits. These employment conditions are gazetted in the Collective Agreement by the minister of Labour and as such becomes law.
Continue reading →The Construction Education and Training Authority (CETA) provides skills development services to the construction sector, to implement the objectives of the National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS III) and to ensure that people obtain the critical or scarce skills that are needed to build the capacity of the construction sector to become economically sustainable and globally competitive. To better understand the skills need in the construction industry CETA conducts research on the skills that employers need. CETA is responsible for identifying skills gaps and developing the education and training programmes that are appropriate to address the skills shortage in line with the skills needs of the construction industry. CETA also funds a number of learning programmes including skills programmes, learnerships, apprenticeships, internships and bursaries at various public education and training institutions such as Universities and TVET Colleges. that all training reflects the needs and requirement of the sector.
Continue reading →The Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers of SA (AUBTWSA) is a trade union representing workers in the construction industry in South Africa.
Continue reading →The Building Industry Bargaining Council [Southern– and Eastern Cape] (BIBC) is a statutory body established i.t.o. section 27 of the Labour Relations Act 1995, with its prime objective being the enhancement and maintenance of sound employer/employee relations in the Building Industry in the Kimberley area.
Continue reading →Quantity Surveyors, project managers, cost engineers or anybody interested in the construction industry and built environment should find really useful information from this association dedicated to the quantity surveying profession in South Africa.
Continue reading →Employers organisation for the building, construction, engineering industry
Continue reading →The South African Institute of Architects is a voluntary association of affiliated and regional institutes established in 1996.
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