Using construction procurement strategy to achieve socioeconomic development objectives.

The procurement strategy for a construction project should provide the framework to achieve secondary procurement and socio-economic development objectives [2]. However, little attention has been focused on this in theory and practice. This paper addresses that gap by presenting a case study of the innovative targeting strategy developed and successfully implemented on a New Universities Project in South Africa to promote specified socioeconomic development objectives.

Explaining the lower usage rate of indigenous construction materials in Ghanaian public buildings using bounded rationality.

Judicious use of Indigenous Construction Materials (ICM) contributes to sustainability of a local construction industry. Why has the use of ICMs not contributed to the sustainability of the Ghanaian Construction Industry (GCI), and how can the use of ICMs engender the sustainability of GCI and that of similar developing countries? This paper uses bounded rationality and mixed-method strategy to explain the ICM usage rate in the GCI, and describes measures for improving the sustainability of the local construction industry through ICMs use. Relatively high ICM cost and non-availability of alternatives have been found as factors largely responsible for constrained ICMs usage.