Dr Kevin Wall has been appointed by the University of Pretoria as Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Construction Economics, Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology, retrospectively from 1 July 2013 until 30 June 2015.

Wall, a Fellow at CSIR Built Environment, is a civil engineer and town planner. Previous posts that he has held include a Director of a firm of consulting engineers, and Assistant City Engineer responsible for the development of low-cost housing areas for the City of Cape Town. Wall is a Past President of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) and a Fellow of the South African Academy of Engineering. He has served terms as Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand and at the University of Pretoria. He has completed a term as the CSIR’s alternate representative on the Board of Governors of the World Water Council. Much of his recent work has focused on policy and protocol formulation, on the effectiveness of government spending on infrastructure, and ways to improve the effectiveness and sustainability of that infrastructure.