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A large pool of technical and legislative information on good house construction practices is available in South Africa. Despite this, a lack of adherence to quality standards is evident throughout the entire spectrum of housing (i.e. low- to high income). Furthermore, there are no formal mechanisms, methodology and socially accepted platform for pro-active and consistent monitoring of quality of housing stock. Prior to developing the BQIH, a research study was undertaken on the internationally accepted quality assessment scheme, Conquas 21, developed and implemented by the Construction Industry Development Board of Singapore. A multidisciplinary team of experts subsequently developed the BQIH for post-construction assessment. The basic principles of the BQIH system follow those adopted in Conquas. However, due to the pronounced contextual and technological differences in the residential sectors of Singapore and South Africa, there are also a number of significant differences between the two systems. The development process was followed by a pilot study in which the applicability of the BQIH system to the South African house construction industry has been evaluated and verified. Download the following paper in pdf format:
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In a project commissioned by the National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC), CSIR Building and Construction Technology (Boutek) has developed the building quality index for houses (BQIH), a comprehensive appraisal system to measure quality standards of houses in South Africa. A paper by J Mahachi (NHBRC), AM Goliger (CSIR) and F Wagenaar (NHBRC) highlights the role of the NHBRC in the development of the BQIH, and the relevance of risk management and performance-based codification. It also summarises the typical structural problems that occur in South African housing, presents selected statistics of damage and their socio-economical implications and considers ways of improving the situation nationally.
