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Kevin
First Name
Kevin
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South Africa
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41
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Kevin Wall, until 2014 a Built Environment Fellow of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), is a civil engineer and town planner, currently contracted as Infrastructure Adviser to Intergovernmental Relations Branch of national Treasury. He is an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria and a Fellow of the South African Academy of Engineering. He is also a non-executive board member of three municipal entities: the Ekurhuleni Water Care Company (ERWAT) and the Johannesburg Social Housing Company. A Past President of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE), within the last 2 years he has received both the Gold Medal of SAICE, the highest honour that can be bestowed by the civil engineering profession in South Africa, and the Lifetime Award of the National Science and Technology Forum, the highest honour that can be bestowed by the science, engineering and technology community. Much of his work over the last two decades has been on effectiveness of government spending on infrastructure, and ways to improve the quality, reliability and sustainability of that infrastructure. In this respect he led the CSIR research team for, and co-authored the main report of, the three SAICE Infrastructure Report Cards on the condition of infrastructure in South Africa which have been published so far, viz 2006, 2011 and 2017.
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Author of over 400 conference papers, journal articles, book chapters, and so on.
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