Civil Infrastructure Management and Maintenance University of Cape Town

Overview

Key Features

The Civil Infrastructure Management and Maintenance programme at the University of Cape Town draws from a number of fields including civil and structural engineering, construction planning and project management.

The primary aim of the MSc(Eng) and PM(Eng) specialising in Civil Infrastructure Management and Maintenance is to produce graduates with the necessary knowledge and skills to engage effectively in structural and materials engineering with respect to maintenance, rehabilitation and management of civil infrastructure. The broad areas of interest are deterioration science, assessment technologies, and renewal engineering.

Most of the civil engineering infrastructure in South Africa is owned by the national government, provincial governments and local authorities. A major challenge for these authorities is the lack of trained human recourses, particularly in the area of infrastructure maintenance. An important value of the CIMM programme is the training of high-level personnel (MSc, MEng, PhD). The establishment of the programme was based on the evidence and conviction that the engineer of the future will spend more time dealing with infrastructure management and maintenance problems than designing new infrastructure.