{"id":957,"date":"2012-11-27T15:53:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fortuneofafrica.com\/ug\/local-capacity-in-the-roads-sector\/"},"modified":"2012-11-27T15:53:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:53:50","slug":"local-capacity-in-the-roads-sector","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/local-capacity-in-the-roads-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Capacity in the Roads Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\"><strong>Equipment:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">The local road construction and maintenance companies lack capacity to acquire and maintain the road equipment. The cost of essential machinery is often far more than start-up companies can afford.\u00a0 The expenditure of heavy \u2018plant\u2019 like bulldozers is well beyond the reach of smaller contractors. These unaffordable equipment costs are widely regarded as the main barrier to small companies gaining a foothold in the roads industry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\"><strong>Engineers:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">According to the Uganda Institute of Professional Engineers (UIPE), there are 588 registered engineers; of whom majority work under different consulting\u00a0 firms, construction companies and government organisations like Ministry of Works and Transport, and United Nations Association among others. There are also other members who are not yet registered with UIPE but they do work in the engineering field. The estimated number of graduates with engineering degrees is about\u00a0 800 which is a low number. The country still requires engineers with experience in road construction and maintenance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\"><strong>Architects:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">The Uganda Society of Architects, together with the Architects Registration Board, are the two professional institutional bodies for architects in Uganda. The corporate membership body today stands at 230 members with active practicing architects at 120.\u00a0 120 practising architects are too few for the country<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equipment: The local road construction and maintenance companies lack capacity to acquire and maintain the road equipment. The cost of essential machinery is often far more than start-up companies can afford.\u00a0 The expenditure of heavy \u2018plant\u2019 like bulldozers is well beyond the reach of smaller contractors. These unaffordable equipment costs are widely regarded as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-957","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Equipment: The local road construction and maintenance companies lack capacity to acquire and maintain the road equipment. The cost of essential machinery is often far more than start-up companies can afford.\u00a0 The expenditure of heavy \u2018plant\u2019 like bulldozers is well beyond the reach of smaller contractors. These unaffordable equipment costs are widely regarded as the&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}