JOURNAL OF CONSTRUCTION | VOLUME 17 | ISSUE 03

ISSN: 1994 – 7402

PUBLISHED BY: Association of Schools of Construction of Southern Africa (2025)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.64755/UMPW4422

CONTENTS

• AIMS AND SCOPE (PG 2)
  
• ADVISORY BOARD (PG 3)
  
• CAPITAL PROJECT COST OVERUN IMPLICATIONS ON SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTRICITY SUPPLY: THE CASE OF LIMLANGA CLUSTER CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS (PG 5)
  Blessing Javani, Simphiwe Nelisiwe Mgaga and Kgashane Stephen Nyakala
  
• KEY DECISION-MAKING CHALLENGES IN PLANNING INFRASTRUCTURE MEGAPROJECTS: A PROSPECT THEORY PERSPECTIVE (PG 17)
  Phakisi Stephen Lehlomela and Prof. Khatleli Nthatisi
  
• CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS’ PERSPECTIVES ON THE BARRIERS TO TIMBER ADOPTION IN KENYA (PG 35)
  Elosy Kathambi, Ferdinand Senam Hassan, Schalk Grobbelaar
  
• INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS (PG 56)
  
• EDITORIAL COMMITTEE (PG 59)

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LETTER FROM THE EDITORS

It is my pleasure to introduce the first issue of Volume 18. This issue contains 3 peer-reviewed papers.

The first paper by Javani, Gaga and Nyakela addresses the implications of capital project cost overruns on the electrical supply of South Africa. They found that unexpected cost overruns, ineffective communication skills, unclear goals and objectives, unrealistic deadlines, inexperienced project managers and inadequate stakeholder management were the main project inefficiencies.

The paper by Lehlomela and Nthatisi discusses within the context of planning mega infrastructure projects the key decision-making challenges. They identified these to be complexities, uncertainties, stakeholder management, political and market dynamics, governance mechanisms and sustainability concerns as some of these challenges.

The final paper by Kathambi, Hassan and Grobbelaar discusses barriers tp the adoption of timber in Kenya. They do so from the perspectives of construction professionals. They highlighted that inconsistent timber treatment and supply chain inefficiencies negatively affected the consideration of timber adoption. They also found lack of awareness and societal biases to be additional deterrents.

The editorial team thanks the authors for submitting these papers. It appreciates the time of the reviewers of each paper for their insights, comments and recommendations. We hope you enjoy reading the papers in this issue.

Theo C Haupt
Overseeing Editor for the Editorial Team