Transformation of the civil engineering sector : a review of the response of established civil engineering consultancies to this challenge.

Abstract

Transformation of the Construction Sector is part of a wider transformation of the social and economic environment of South Africa. Publication of the Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Act, 2003, Act Number 53 of 2003 (BBBEE) in January 2004, initiated the next phase in transformation (SAACE, 2004b, p1), which required the development and publication of sector specific Transformation Charters.