The Fourth Built Environment Conference - Presenter Profiles
Keynote Speaker: Ronnie Khoza - CEO, CIDB
Mr Khoza's Profile
Mr Khoza is CEO of CIDB South Africa, having been appointed in February 2007. Previously he worked as Programme Manager-Procurement and Delivery Management for cidb between July 2006 and January 2007; operated his small consulting firm between 2003 and June 2006; was a Director and Business Development Manager for Ninham Shand Consulting Engineers between 1999 and 2003; was Factory Manager for Chapelat, a sugar confectionery division of Cadbury Schweppes SA; Production Manager at African Products, a starch and syrups division of the Tongaat-Hulett group, and Laboratory Analyst at Lever Brothers.
Ronnie has qualifications in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Applied Chemistry as well as Business Management.
Keynote Speaker: Professor Johann Coetzee - Chairperson , Wiehahn Formwork & Scaffolding
Prof Coetzee's Profile:
Areas of expertise and specialisation: Organisation Psychology and Wellness,
Executive Assessment and Counselling
Ethics,
Aviation Psychology
Education and qualification: B Admin (UFS); B. Admin Hons (UFS); BA (SA);
M.Comm (PU); PhD. (UFS)
Post Doctoral studies: Forensic Medicine, Ethics & Philosophy
Professional: Health Professions Council: Registered Psychologist, Fellow: Institute of Management Consultants, Fellow: Institute of People Management
Keynote Speaker: Professor Dave Langford - Professor Emeritus, Glasgow Caledonian University
Professor Dave Langford's Profile:
Dave Langford is Professor Emeritus at Glasgow Caledonian University.He has held senior academic positions at Glasgow Caledonian,Strathclyde,Bath,and Brunel Universities.In addition he has held Visiting Professorships in Hong Kong and Australia and has lectured and consulted around the world.More recently he was awarded the position of Honorary Life President of the Association of Researchers in Construction Management(ARCOM)
He has written 14 books including Strategic Management in Construction(with Steve Male) His current interests are writing a history of Construction Management and working on a play about the tension between research and teaching in Universities’. In other lives he likes to travel, follow cricket and go to the theatre.
Keynote Speaker: Professor P D Rwelamila PhD, Pr.CPM, FCIOB- President, South African Council for Project & Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP)
Professor Rwelamila's Profile:
- Pantaleo M. D. Rwelamila is a Professor of Project Management at the Graduate School of Business Leadership (GSBL), University of South Africa (UNISA).
- Current President: The South African Council for Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP).
- Joint coordinator: International Council for Research & Innovation in Building & Construction (CIB) - W107: Construction in developing countries
- Chairperson and non executive director of tau Pride Projects (Pty) Ltd, a construction project management consulting firm with offices in Gauteng, North West Province - South Africa & Gaborone, Botswana.
- Chairperson & non executive director of MSINGI Construction Project Management (Pty) Ltd, a Construction project management consulting firm based in Cape Town, South Africa.
- Current non executive Board Member and Principal Consultant, SGI Group (Pty) Ltd, a company based in Gauteng, South Africa.
- Non executive Director and joint owner, XPQ Consulting Services (Pty) Ltd, a project management consulting firm based in Pretoria, South Africa.
- Associate of the CSIR (2000-2005).
- Appointed member (by the Minister of Public Works) to the statutory South African Council for Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP) and Council for the Built Environment (CBE) - (2002 -2005) & SACPCMP (2006 -2009).
- Former Vice President (Education) of CIOB – Southern Africa 2000-2005).
- He graduated in Construction Economics – ARI/UCLAS, DSM, Tanzania. He has a Masters Degree in Project Management from Brunel University, London, UK and a Ph.D. in Project Management and Procurement systems from the University of Cape Town/ University of Liverpool.
- He was a Senior Partner of Quantum Consultants (Pty) Ltd – a Project Management & Quantity Surveying consulting firm in Botswana
- He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Construction Economics and Management at the University of Cape Town.
- He has worked in a number of countries, including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Botswana, Zambia, Australia, United Kingdom and Sweden.
- He has published widely internationally.
- He is a Fellow of the CIOB - UK, Registered Construction Project Manager in South Africa, American Association of Cost Engineers (MAACE) and American Institute of Constructors (MAIC).
- He was a full time secretariat member of the South African government Task Team responsible for developing the Construction Industry policy for two years 1998 and 1999.
- He received a joint Centre for Science and Industrial Research (CSIR) outstanding achiever award in 1999
- He received the 2002 Researcher of the year award, Graduate School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa (UNISA).
- In January 2005 (at the CIB W92 Conference -University of Arizona, USA), Professor Rwelamila was named as the second most cited researcher in project procurement in the world.
- Professor Rwelamila has more than 190 published and peer-reviewed journal papers, chapters in books and conference proceedings.
Keynote Speaker: David Hofmeyr - Representative, Master Builders Association Western Cape
Mr Hofmeyr's Profile:
Mr Hofmeyr will be attending as a representative of the Master Builders Association Western Cape. He is a Trustee and Chairman of two trusts established by the MBAWC to promite and fund skills training in the building industry, namely the Skills and Education Trust, and the MBA Development Trust.
He is a Past President of the Association, and serves on a number of committees. He is also a registered professional engineer (BSc (Civ) Eng from UCT) and has been active in the building industry for the past 34 years, having worked for Murray & Roberts for 17 years, and since then engaged in personal business interests primarily in timber joinery manufacture. His primary business, West Cape Joinery, has been a member of the MBA for some 25 years.
Keynote Speaker: SE Madonsela, Pr Eng - Chairman of the Council for the Built Environment [CBE]
Managing Director: Emzansi Consulting Engineers Coastal cc.
Chairman of the Council for the Built Environment [CBE]
Exco member of the Engineering Council of South Africa
Director: Natcom (Pty) Ltd
President: Engineering Council of South Africa
Keynote Speaker: Professor Mutale Mike Musonda - Vice Chancellor, Copperbelt University, Zambia
Vice Chancellor, Copperbelt University, Zambia.
Professor of Comparative
Pathology
Graduate of Nairobi University (Kenya),
Uppsala University (Sweden) and Azabu University (Japan)
Keynote Speaker: Mr Chewe Kambole - Acting Dean, School of the Built Environment, Copperbelt University, Zambia
Mr Chewe is a lecturer at the Copperbelt University in the School of the Built Environment, Department of Civil Engineering and Construction. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) degree and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Geology.
He is a Registered (practicing) Engineer under the Engineering Institution of Zambia. His main areas of career & academic interest are Construction Materials, Quality Management, Soil Mechanics & Foundation Engineering, Geotechnics, and Engineering Mechanics. He currently serves as the Head of the Civil Engineering and Construction Department in the School of the Built Environment and also Acting Dean of the School. Before joining the Copperbelt University he worked in the Construction Industry for six years that covered Civil Engineering structural design work, supervision of contractors, Site Investigations and Pile Foundation construction. Since joining the University he has been involved in various Site Investigation Consultancies as well as supervision of construction projects
Keynote Speaker: Mr Greg Steele- Executive Director of the East Cape Master Builders Association
Member of the Board and Exco of Master Builders South Africa (MBSA)
Member of the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB)
Member of MBSA Education & Training, Contractual & Legal, and Occupational Health & Safety Committees
Representative on the Building Industry Bargaining Councils for the Southern and Eastern Cape
Trustee - Building Industry Medical Aid Fund & Building Industry Pension and Provident Funds