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Llewellyn van Wyk

Llewellyn van Wyk is an expert on the construction sector, especially in the fields of sustainable building and construction activities, skills development, and advanced construction technologies.

Current activities and research interests

  • Construction capacity for sustainable development: role of science, technology and innovation; identification and development of critical skills; and technology diffusion
  • Governance of built/natural interface: measuring and reporting, systemic and integrated ecological planning, policy formulation, effective management
  • Resource governance: adaptive and mitigating strategies, innovation, science and technology interventions.

Formal education

BArchitecture, University of Cape Town, 1980

Experience

Van Wyk has more than twenty-two years' experience as a practising architect, and five years' experience in studies and contract research related to the construction sector, spanning the fields of construction industry development, built environment professions skills development and training, sustainable building and construction evaluation and reporting, holistic building design and planning, policy and strategy development, and advanced construction technology research.

Organisational details
PO Box 395
Pretoria
0001
South Africa

Tel: +27 12 841 2677
Fax: +27 12 841 3539
Email: lvwyk@csir.co.za

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