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Webinar Overview

To provide thought leadership to the Construction Industry and ensure engagement with its valued stakeholders, the South African Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP) will present a series of webinars over the next few months.

The Council envisages that the topics presented via these webinars will add value to those operating within the Built Environment. The sessions will also provide an opportunity for Registered Persons to gain CPD hours through a convenient online format.

The following SACPCMP webinar will take place on 05 April 2023, commencing at 09:00, and will provide CPD hours to those who attend. The cost is R470.00 (including VAT) per person.

Overview of the SACPCMP

The South African Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP) derives its mandate from Section 22 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa. The relevant section dealing with freedom of trade, occupation, and profession, states that “every citizen has a right to choose their trade, occupation, and profession freely. The practice of a trade, occupation, or profession may be regulated by law.”

The SACPCMP was established to regulate and promote specific Built Environment Management Professions and is a juristic person established by the Project and Construction Management Professions Act (Act No-48 of 2000) “to provide for the registration of professionals, candidates, and specified categories in the project and construction management professions: to provide for the regulation of the relationship between the South African Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions and the Council for the Built Environment, and to provide for matters connected therewith”.

The Council is further tasked with the protection of public interest. which is achieved by ensuring suitably qualified and registered professionals in specific Built Environment Management Professions in South Africa through promoting and enforcing high standards of professional ethics and conduct within the Built Environment.

The Minister of the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) is the Executive Authority of all the councils within the Built Environment including the SACPCMP.

The Built Environment refers to the functional area within which Registered Persons practice and includes all structures that are planned and/or erected above or underground, as well as the land utilised for the purpose and supporting infrastructure. The Council for the Built Environment (CBE) and the SACPCMP Acts enjoin the entities to work in concert in respect of the SACPCMPs 13 mandates (administrative functions), alongside the eight mandates of the CBE for a sustainable Built Environment.

SACPCMP Value Proposition

Our Value Proposition describes the benefits customers can expect from our products and services.

VALUE PROPOSITION TO THE PUBLIC

• We provide the public with confidence that persons registered with us have the necessary level of professional expertise to render applicable services.
• We provide students with the assurance that accredited institutions offer qualifications that will sufficiently equip the students to enter their chosen professions within the Built Environment.

• We provide the public with guidelines for the scope of service and recommended professional fees for services rendered by persons registered with us.
• We facilitate cross-country recognition of qualifications and registrations.
• We provide a dispute resolution mechanism to address non-commercial and contractual disputes between registered persons and members of the public.

VALUE PROPOSITION TO INDUSTRY

• Professionals registered with the SACPCMP are recognised as being capable of rendering applicable services at the necessary level of expertise. This enhances their access to local and global markets

• We provide an avenue/channel for unregistered persons to become registered professionals.
• We facilitate the development of a human resource pool of registered persons in the sector, available for recruitment by service providers.
• We give Voluntary Associations (VAs) recognition and partner with them in advancing mutual interests.
• We provide leadership for the development of people and knowledge in our sector.

VALUE PROPOSITION TO GOVERNMENT

• We fulfill our mandates in terms of the Act.
• We facilitate the development of a skills pipeline necessary to meet the infrastructure developmental needs of South Africa for professions under our jurisdiction.
• We provide support and/or advise to Government and SOEs relevant to planning and accessing services provided by professionals under our jurisdiction.

Vision, Mission and Values