Construction Intelligence

Interpreting the
Signals Shaping
South African Construction

Independent briefings for developers, consultants, suppliers and investors.

Project Intelligence SA tracks the indicators that matter — approvals, capital deployment, regional pipeline shifts, delivery capacity and investor behaviour — and translates them into intelligence you can act on before they become visible on site.

R99bn
National approvals pipeline — 2025
35.3%
Western Cape share of national pipeline
6–8 min
Time to complete the industry survey
Q2 2026
Industry report — free to all participants
Western Cape approvals +6,8% YoY  ·  Source: Stats SA Building Plans, Q4 2025
Gauteng approvals −14,0% YoY
Eastern Cape +18,8% — strongest growth province
National total −2,6% to R99,1bn
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WC contractor availability tightening
Additions & alterations nationally +5,8%
Retail approvals nationally −43,9%
Western Cape approvals +6,8% YoY  ·  Source: Stats SA Building Plans, Q4 2025
Gauteng approvals −14,0% YoY
Eastern Cape +18,8% — strongest growth province
National total −2,6% to R99,1bn
SA Industry Survey now open — participate today
WC contractor availability tightening
Additions & alterations nationally +5,8%
Retail approvals nationally −43,9%
Industry Research

SA Construction
Industry Survey

South Africa's construction sector has good pipeline data. What it lacks is practitioner-level insight — how professionals on the ground are actually experiencing project pressure, specification decisions, and market conditions in 2026.

This survey is our attempt to change that. The findings will be published freely as the SA Project Intelligence Industry Report — Q2 2026, distributed to all participants and made available to the broader industry.

What this survey measures
Pipeline confidence — how practitioners expect activity to move over the next 12 months
Where project pressure is actually concentrated in 2026
At what design stage product and specification decisions get locked in
How and when suppliers engage with the design process
Where delivery most commonly breaks down — and why

Open to architects, quantity surveyors, engineers, property developers and project managers. No individual responses will be identified — only aggregated findings are published.

Industry Survey · Q2 2026
Design Decisions, Project Pressures & Delivery Outlook

Takes approximately 6–8 minutes to complete. Includes discipline-specific questions for QS, engineers, developers and project managers. All responses are strictly confidential — participants receive the full industry report free on publication.

5–6
Minutes
27
Questions
9
Sections
Free
Report on completion
Architects Quantity Surveyors Consulting Engineers Property Developers Project Managers
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All individual responses are strictly confidential. Aggregate data only will be published. Project Intelligence SA does not share personal information with third parties.
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Each brief interprets the latest data signals across approvals, pipeline trends, regional momentum and delivery capacity.

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Focused intelligence notes on finance, delivery and design-stage decisions — published between quarterly briefs. As new research is completed, it will appear here first.

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Who We Are

Independent
construction
intelligence

"Construction momentum is rarely about a single year's performance. It is about where the next phase of work begins clustering."

Project Intelligence SA produces independent construction intelligence briefings focused on the signals that shape market direction — approvals, capital deployment, regional pipeline shifts, delivery capacity and investor behaviour.

Our work helps developers, consultants, suppliers and investors interpret where the cycle is moving before it becomes visible on site.

We are not a consultancy and we have no products to sell. This survey is independent research — findings are published in aggregate for the industry. Our interest is in producing credible, locally relevant analysis — including through the SA Construction Industry Survey, the first practitioner-led dataset of its kind in South Africa.

  • 01
    Data-anchored analysis
    Every brief is grounded in published statistical data — primarily StatsSA building plan approval releases — cited, sourced and interpreted in context.
  • 02
    Regional intelligence
    National aggregates mask provincial divergence. Our analysis goes below the headline to identify where momentum is building and where it is contracting.
  • 03
    Practitioner research
    The SA Industry Survey captures what the data doesn't — how professionals experience pipeline confidence, design pressure and delivery conditions on the ground.
  • 04
    Published quarterly
    Briefings are released quarterly, aligned to the StatsSA publication cycle, ensuring analysis reflects the most current available data.
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Organisations already positioned in the forming clusters will capture the next cycle first.
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Analysis covers all nine provinces