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UCT RESEARCH REPORT 2012
Departmental Statistics
Permanent and Long-term Contract Staff
Professors
2
Associate Professors
2
Senior Lecturers
9
Lecturer
1
Administrative and Clerical Staff
5
Departmental Assistant
1
TOTAL
20
Students
Doctoral
6
Master’s
91
Postgraduate Diploma
23
Honours
61
Undergraduate
425
TOTAL
606
Research Fields and Staff
Permanent Staff
Professor K.S. Cattell
Head of Department: Value management; workplace
facilities management; learning spaces; the impact of HIV/
AIDS on the South African construction industry; corruption
in the construction industry; and stress management for
built environment professionals.
Professor P.A. Bowen
Value management; project procurement; project
briefing as an interpersonal communication process; the
sustainability assessment of buildings; the impact of HIV/
AIDS on the South African construction industry; corruption
in the construction industry; and stress management for
built environment professionals.
Associate Professor K.A. Michell
Facilities management as a social and community
enterprise in low-income areas of cities; urban facilities
management; work space planning and management in
buildings; learning spaces.
Associate Professor F. Viruly
Urban economics; property development; property
feasibility studies; property and building cycles; property
and the macro economy; econometric forecasting of the
commercial and residential property markets; institutions
and the structure of property markets.
Mrs E. Edwardes
Senior Lecturer: Education in construction studies;
enhancement of skills required for construction studies.
Mrs K. Evans
Senior Lecturer: Work with the African Centre for Cities
Research Laboratory; innovative financing of medium to
low-income housing from the perspective of end-users;
working capital, bridging finance and wholesale finance.
Mr I. Jay
Senior Lecturer: Project Management – particularly
in the area of project strategy and project portfolio
(Programme) management. Application of value models
to portfolio balancing, and enterprise wide project
management structures and systems. Value Management
– particular focus on client values, determination of
project measures of success (success criteria) and
modelling of client values.
Mrs K. Le Jeune
Senior Lecturer: Gender related issues within the Built
Environment professions; green buildings; service
learning and application in construction education; social
responsibility and construction education.
Mr J. Marks
Senior Lecturer: Entrepreneurial thinking; skills migration,
learning spaces; experiential learning; integrated learning.
Mr M. Massyn
Senior Lecturer: Skills and competencies of SME's within
the construction industry; procurement systems using
in housing delivery with particular emphasis on the PHP
delivery system.
Mr R. McGaffin
Senior Lecturer: The relationship between land economics
and planning; property markets and value-capture; Housing
and affordable housing markets.
Dr M. Mooya
Senior Lecturer: Informal/Low income property markets;
property market process; property valuation theory and
practice; epistemology and methodology in property
market research.
Dr A. Windapo
Senior Lecturer: Contractor performance and development
studies; housing procurement and development studies;
risk and quality management processes on construction
projects and health, safety and environmental issues.