Neutral specifications

Abstract

This paper gives an outline of the concept of neutral documentation including specifications for contracts for the construction of low‐volume, low‐cost roads, inter alia, by labour‐based methods as a means of helping to relieve unemployment in, and of helping to build up the infrastructure of the national states. Neutralised documentation, if used for construction contracts in such areas, will also provide an opening for local contractors/entrepreneurs. The paper is a contribution to a “resource intensiveness” policy enunciated by Viljoen in his Delphi study ‐ Part II (October 1982).

Notes

Retained by Ninham Shand Inc as a consultant and as author/administrator of the SABS 1200 group of standardised specifications for civil engineering construction. Previously, successively before retirement, a construction engineer in what was the SAR and later in General Mining, then becoming a self‐employed civil engineering contractor, on a small scale. The kind permission of Ninham Shand Inc for the publication of this paper is acknowledged with thanks.