Analyzing issues affecting the implementation of sustainable development practices in the South African construction sector

M.Tech. (Quality and Operations Management)Abstract: Construction is a huge, vibrant, and complex industry that portrays a significant role in the state’s economy. The roads, houses, workplaces, repairs and maintenances of our nation's physical infrastructure are made by construction workers and employees. Construction work includes working of new structures, which may contain exercises included with separating land available to be purchased as planning of destinations for new development. Development work likewise incorporates redesigns involving augmentations, modifications and fix of structures. However, today the construction industry is facing the environmental issues. These environmental challenges include a rising global scientific affirmation in human-influenced weather transformation, heavier rainfall which leads to overflowing in several places across the world, along with droughts and overheating in the summer that concerns building materials. Therefore, the construction industry needs to adjust and produce more sustainable homes to withstand destructive forces such as hurricanes and floods so as to avoid large swathes of upcoming populations losing their homes due to unexpected weather conditions. Construction enterprises have been moving in new technologies in order to stave off environmental catastrophe to push forward the sustainable development. Sustainable development is described as the principle that encounters human goals, simultaneously maintaining the ability of environmental reserves. Sustainable development is classified as a change that sustains the requirements of the current without trading off the capacity of anticipated ages. The main objective of this study is to analyze the issues affecting the implementation of sustainable development in the South African Construction Industry. The research objective was achieved in our data analysis. The information in this examination was acquired from primary and secondary sources. The primary information was assembled by means of related literature. The secondary data was gathered by means of questionnaire which was distributed to construction professionals in the South African construction industry. Out of 130 questionnaires sent out, 100 were returned, representing 77 percent response rate. Data from the research was analyzed using reliability analysis. Results from the data analysis revealed that reduction of costs, recycling all materials, decrease of negative impacts on social, cultural and ecological condition, increment in consumer loyalty, mindfulness and request, using unreservedly accessible vitality, utilizing promptly accessible materials, utilizing low vitality procedures and increment in representative employment fulfillment were the significant rules that can advance the usage of sustainable development practices in the South African development industry (SACI). In addition, the..