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FROM THE PRESIDENT – ALAN CRANE CBE
I am aware that there may be concerns about the standards which the CIOB uses for assessing candidates for membership. In a process that commenced in 2010, the Board of Trustees, following advice of the Education, Qualifications, Standards and Practice Board and following consultation and acceptance by the Members Forum has determined that to protect standards it is necessary to make changes to the professional review.
On the 26th and 27th of May 2010 CIOB Africa (Charted Institute of Building - Africa) in partnership with the cidb (Construction Industry Development Board) held the 2010 Construction Summit at Gallagher Estate, Midrand.
Members of the Institute are involved in the organisation and delivery of a major international construction research conference to be held in Cape Town from 14th to 18th May 2007.
Brian Bruce, the group chief executive of South African based construction and engineering group Murray and Roberts, has been awarded the Chartered Institute of Building's (CIOB) Presidents Medal for services to the international construction industry.
The CIOB has published a biographical history of some of the construction industry's greatest leaders, from the beginnings of the Institute to the modern day.
In a rare public address Ray O'Rourke chairman of Laing O'Rourke, part of the consortium that will deliver the London Olympics in 2012, said construction must continue to innovate.
Three contract awards in the name of Ghana’s Ahanta West District Assembly have been ruled in violation of the West African State’s Public Procurement Act in a report by the Ghanaian Audit Service.
Many of the firms bidding for infrastructure jobs in Nigeria’s $100 million Fadama development have been ‘found wanting’ and are being blacklisted by the Federal Capital Territory Administration.
After long negotiations, Gauteng Province has signed the agreement with the Bombela consortium for building, operating and maintaining the Gautrain rapid rail project from Johannesburg to Pretoria.
