Infrastructure delivery high on Gauteng’s agenda

Infrastructure delivery remains at the top of the agenda in Gauteng with the province’s department of infrastructure development (DID) having revised its fiveyear plan. According to Mbwanga Xaba, spokesman for the DID, to address the past challenges of poor and slow infrastructure delivery the department has developed and started implementing a radical delivery method and approach referred to as the Infrastructure Delivery Management System (IDMS). “This methodology will enable us to re-engineer and re-position the department to be capacitated, effective, efficient and accountable in delivering infrastructure,” he said. This entails three delivery processes – namely portfolio management, project management, operations and maintenance. “We are improving our planning processes which will impact on the design, implementation and closeout of projects, while we are also going to be re-examining maintenance programmes and then disposinge of assets that have become a huge liability.” Xaba said this was all part of Gauteng positioning itself to seize the numerous opportunities available through the forecast sustained continental economic growth over the next decade or so.