BSc Hons (QS) graduate Dylan Minnaar received the ASAQS Gold Medal Award, awarded annually at a national level for outstanding academic achievement during the 2024 academic year to a BSc Honours (Quantity Surveying) graduate.
These students’ academic achievements should be of outstanding merit and their personal qualities contributing positively to the profession.
Dylan is currently working locally for an International Quantity Surveying firm, Rogerson Reddan & Associates.
The Department of Quantity Surveying also won two of the four paper awards and presented 11 papers at the conference.
From left, Shemondalay Jonas, Prof Gerrit Crafford, Professor Nishani Harinarain and Namhla Bokveld
In the category “Navigating Disruption in the Built Environment” Master’s student and associate lecturer in Quantity Surveying Shemondalay Jonas and Professor Gerrit Crafford (Supervisor) won an award for their paper on building resilience: Countering South Africa’s Construction Mafia Through Stakeholder Collaboration in the Construction Industry.
The other award was in the category “Sustainability in the Built Environment”, where BSc Honours student Namhla Bokveld and Prof Nishani Harinarain, Research Associate and Supervisor, presented their paper on The Role of Greenwashing in Shaping Contractors’ Approaches to Green Building.