Abstract

Speaker after speaker agreed as to the need to create a capable critical mass of expert service providers in the engineering industry from within Africa for charting a clear way forward for selfsufficiency so crucial to beginning to create an effective effort to 1 narrow or slow down the growing technological gap between the young and advanced nations. Near home, Tanzania is lauded, and, South Africa and Sri Lanka are considered models to emulate. Uganda’s efforts to reform the Local Construction Industry are cited, demonstrating the frustration within the profession that needs urgent redress.

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