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Dr Kevin Wall |
As part of the CSIR's drive to strengthen its science, engineering and technology base, Dr Kevin Wall has been selected a Fellow of CSIR Built Environment. The key roles of a CSIR operating unit fellow include enhancing the unit's image, mentoring, networking, providing leadership and executing activities aimed at shaping the technology direction of the unit. Unit fellows also review the strategic plan and R&D portfolios.
Wall, an infrastructure specialist, is a registered professional engineer, a registered town planner, a chartered civil engineer (UK) and a registered public relations practitioner. His specialisation includes project management of multidisciplinary study teams; management of groups responsible for low-cost housing and infrastructure feasibility studies, design and construction; formulating and managing policies and strategies for broad-scale planning, development and engineering services provision; and integrating institutional, community, social and financial aspects with technical aspects.
Wall has over 40 years' experience in housing and urban and regional engineering (particularly in the water and sanitation services sphere), planning and institutional design. This experience has been gained through a wide variety of civil engineering and town planning projects in low-income urban areas, forward-planning for development at the metropolitan and regional scales and policy formulation at national level.
Before joining the CSIR 10 years ago, Wall was a Director of Ninham Shand consulting engineers. Prior to that, he had been Assistant City Engineer responsible for the design and construction of housing, township services and amenities in the low-income areas of the City of Cape Town, and also Chief Executive of an Urban Foundation housing utility company.
Current projects involve water services infrastructure asset management and 'mainstreaming' HIV/Aids, appropriate technologies, and other issues in water services provision. Wall is also leading the development of using the principles of franchising partnerships in order to improve water services infrastructure operation and maintenance.
A senior member of numerous professional institutions, Wall is the author of more than 250 papers, book chapters and conference presentations. He holds a PhD in engineering, as well as M degrees in civil engineering, urban and regional planning, and in industrial administration.
Awards bestowed on him include twice being the winner of the SA Institution of Civil Engineering's national award for meritorious research, in 2005 and in 2006. Last year, he received the CSIR Built Environment excellence award for career achievement.
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