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Issue No. 13, September 2019 THEME: UP AND RUNNING WORK RELATIONS: Putting people at the heart of your business TAXES: Tax legislation in the construction sector OFFERS: Boost your capacity by utilising UNABCEC’s special discount programs Genuine players in construction on same footing YOGI STEELS LTD “Today For Tomorrow” TMT Binding Steel Angles Wire Bars Z Polythen TMT Angles For Nails bars Foundation Rounded Flat bars Bars Water Tank Office & Works: Plot 270, Kayunga Road, Malindi Wakisi Division Buikwe District. P.O Box 2207 Njeru Tel: +256 758 123131 / +256 776 123131 / +256 776 023131 / 0752 289841 Toll Free: 0800 312 345 Email: [email protected] / [email protected] Website: yogisteels .com 2 SEPTEMBER, 2019 www.unabcec.co.ug UNABCEC UNABCEC_UG Editorial This magazine is a publication of Uganda National Association of Building and Civil The construction Engineering Contractors (UNABCEC) landscape is getting PROJECT LEADER Elizabeth Muhebwa Executive Director, UNABCEC bigger and better [email protected] +256 704 637049 f you look around you, in any part of the country’s urban centres, EDITOR there is a construction project Asiimwe Peninah B I going on. It could be a road, shopping [email protected], mall, school, hotel and many other as- +256 779 877744 pects of construction. Only a few years ago, the Entebbe GREATIVE DESIGN Expressway was only a plan on paper. Mike Louboyera Musaasizi And the place on which the road now [email protected] +256 772 536 512 sits was a residential area and part of it a swamp. And so was the cable-sus- CONTRIBUTORS pended Source of the Nile Bridge, the Francis Karuhanga, Elizabeth Muhebwa, Mike magnificent URA Towers and the many Serunkuuma, Jetty Nuwagira, Dorothy Uzamukunda, new UNRA road networks across the Eng. Jamesone Olonya, Eng. Ronald Mugabi, Nyanja country. Abraham, Can. Eng. Jonathan G. Mwedde, Florence These and many more big construc- Nakyeyune, Namirembe Patricia N. Kyeyune, Caroline tion projects only serve to show how Mukhaye Kyesimira, Sybella Namirembe, Mariam N. the sector is on a steady growth. And Kabanda with the growth in the sector, we will definitely see big growth in our indig- PROOFREADER Michael Agaba enous construction companies. And [email protected] it has already started as you will read +256 782 384457 and discover, some of the construction projects featured are being undertaken UNABCEC Secretariat by indigenous companies. International Partners Uganda National Association of Building But for this to get even bigger and and Civil Engineering Contractors (UNABCEC) better, we may need to see partner- Plot M764, Coronation Avenue, ships between foreign and local con- UMA Show Grounds, Lugogo tractors. P.O Box 34046, Kampala Tel: +256 392 795036 And if you thought engineering was Email: [email protected] a reserve for men, this issue brings you www.unabcec.co.ug even more exciting experiences of Mar- iam Kabanda and Sybella Namirembe Copyright 2019 UNABCEC. All rights reserved. No who are sailing the wavy waters of en- part of this magazine may be copied or re-distributed gineering with boldness. Find this and without permission from UNABCEC secretariat. more well packaged articles that won’t Disclaimer: The views expressed in this publication allow you put your copy down until the are not necessarily those of Uganda National Associa- last full stop. tion of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors (UNABCEC). Whereas every care is taken in compiling the contents of this publication, UNABCEC assumes no Peninah responsibility for the statements made by the contributors or advertisers in this publication. Local Partners www.unabcec.co.ug UNABCEC UNABCEC_UG SEPTEMBER, 2019 1 Contents Girls shouldn’t 13 SHY AWAY FROM ENGINEERING 11 Mariam Namiya Kabanda made the decision to become an engineer early in her life. The decision was a no brainer at all. From as early as her days at Buganda Road Primary School, Kabanda noticed that Math- ematics and Science came easy with her. PARTNERSHIPS WILL GIVE CONTRACTORS EDGE 13 In order to beckon government to consider local contractors while awarding contracts for big 17 “Business ethics - THE ANSWER TO SUSTAINABility” construction projects. 20-21 Business ethics refers to the contemporary organiza- E.PROCUREMENT: tional standards, principles, sets of values and norms that govern the actions and behavior of an individual A SOLUTION TO WAST- in the business organization. Acting ethically takes into AGE AND FRAUD IN account all the factors of doing business. PROCUMENT 27 30 PUTTING PEOPLE AT THE HEART Public procurement offers the OF YOUR BUSINESS largest business opportunities 38 in Uganda. Uganda spends approximately 65% of the People-centred Leaders care about both government budget through people and results; they know that the only public procurement. way to get results is through their people. So how does this thinking play out in organisations today? UNABCEC’s special 28 DISCOUNT PROGRAMS INDUCTION OF THE BOARD OF DI- 42 RECTORS SETS NEW ENERGY UNABCEC, under her Dis- 50 count programme, provides The Annual General Meeting of December 6, 2018 her members with access to saw a new Board of Directors elected into office. The high quality services. Secretariat then set to out to orient the Directors into the UNABCEC culture, farmiliarise them with the 52 closer view of the association’s functions, services and financial activities in a quick but effective manner. 2 SEPTEMBER, 2019 www.unabcec.co.ug UNABCEC UNABCEC_UG www.unabcec.co.ug UNABCEC UNABCEC_UG SEPTEMBER, 2019 3 President’s Message We are determined to continue serving our partners better n behalf of the Board of Directors, we would like to take brink of some very profound changes and have detailed this opportunity to welcome new members to the our Seven interventions that we demand from govern- Oassociation of genuine contractors in Uganda, ment. Our goal with the Future Focus initiative is to track while at the same time re-assuring all existing members of our those changes and develop programs and educational materi- continued commitment to serve them to the best of our abili- als to help all the stakeholders to profit from them. ties, based on UNABCEC’s 5 Corner Stones of Professionalism, We extend our special appreciation to the following stake- Knowledge, Care, Credibility and Development. holders that have embraced and continue to support this We shall also continue to cherish and inculcate our new values Future Focus initiative. of Humanity, Harmony and Democracy. As a contractors’ mem- 1.Ministry of Works and Transport for setting up Construc- ber association, our promise of quality service to members is tion Industry Development Committee comprising all stake- the same promise our members are encouraged to extend to holders to deliberate and advise its top management on issues their own clients so that they continue to distinguish them- that affect the industry. selves as paragons of quality service in the provision of 2.Uganda National Roads Authority that established a full- construction services in our country. time UNABEC desk in the executive director’s office to address Construction is a tremendously intricate process, consid- any written issues from the sector. The entity bi-annually en- ering the attendant capital and resource intensiveness, gages the stakeholders in a face to face forum and is the only besides the involvements of many stakeholders over the long- entity of Uganda government that has pioneered mandatory associated lifecycles and lead times—moreover the industry is subcontracting on the projects executed by foreign provid- compounded with significant complexities of managing the ers. entire maturation processes efficiently. 3.Foreign providers - Ms Mota-Engil Engenharia E Constru- Resolving numerous causes and effects of poor construction cao Africa SA, Ms SBI International Holdings (AG) Uganda quality in Uganda, which include: that continue to engage national providers on their ongoing i.Poor engineering and contracting details (involving critical projects (which do not have any local content mandatory re- matters of: research and materials’ selection, improper docu- quirement) to supply all local materials and engage local staff mentations, procurement criterion, etc) up to their middle management levels of their firms. ii.Corporate and individual Ineffectiveness (i.e meagre insti- 4.Resident providers – Ms. Dott Services Ltd, Ms. Roko tutional interactions, inapt construction management prac- Construction Ltd and Ms. Terrain services Ltd that engage tices, lack of proper supervisions, ignorance, carelessness, national subcontractors, and employ 99% local staff up to their negligence, conflict of/and vested interests). top management level. iii.Poor workmanship (i.e incorrect interpretations, hydro-geo- The special Future Focus issues are designed to share informa- technical cataclysms, formwork catastrophes, methodological tion about some of the new developments, technologies and maintenance failures etc), requires an extensive and and techniques that are transforming our industry. But concerted national effort. we also want to explore how construction stakeholders in Such effort is made unnecessarily more difficulty by the lack Uganda are harnessing these new developments, technolo- of common, robust and effective national regulatory frame- gies and techniques to their benefit. work or standards; meaning that these problems must be These special issues will be just one of the ways we work to