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Construction Economics: Databases & Journals

Subject Guide

Summary

This page contains a list of journals and  databases that you can use to search for  Construction Economics related electronic resources such articles, proceedings and journals. 

Subject Databases

Scopus

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.

ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from nearly 2,500 journals and more than 30,000 books.

JStor

JSTOR offers both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections. Arts & Sciences Collections, the General Science Collection, and the Biological Sciences Collection, the entire JSTOR archive

SpringerLink

SpringerLink is the premier electronic data source from Springer for researchers in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, social sciences and economics.

ASTM Compass®

Over 12,000 ASTM standards operate globally. Defined and set by us, they improve the lives of millions every day. Combined with our innovative business services, ASTM standards enhance performance and help everyone have confidence in the things they buy and use – from the toy in a child’s hand to the aircraft overhead.

SANS Standards

The South African Bureau of Standards has made this Complete Collection of Standards and Related Documents available to our institution subject to adherence to their intellectual property rights. The Collection is to be used for reference purposes only. Each file is watermarked, password-secured, and non-printable, but allows content copying.

SAGE Research Methods

SAGE Research Methods is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SAGE Research Methods links over 175,000 pages of SAGE’s renowned book, journal and reference content with truly advanced search and discovery tools.

EasyData by Quantec

A comprehensive collection of South African macroeconomic, industry, trade and regional indicators. Please register with your University of Pretoria email address.

Sabinet African Journals

Sabinet African Journals have been available online to clients with great success since 2001. The collection is proud to be the biggest of its kind, with an exclusive assortment of African and southern African journal titles, which includes more than 430 titles as well as more than 350 000 full text articles and the list keeps on growing.

Fitch Connect

An innovative, robust and comprehensive credit analytics and macro intelligence platform designed to service the individual data consumption models of credit risk, debt market and strategic research professionals. It provides users with credit research, credit ratings, macroeconomic and financial fundamental data, country risk research and indices, industry research, Financial Implied Ratings, and a curated news service.

AccessEngineering

AccessEngineering is an award-winning engineering reference tool for professionals, academics, and students that provides seamless access to the world's best-known, most-used collection of authoritative, regularly updated engineering reference information.  AccessEngineering also comprises dynamic online features, such as instructional, faculty made videos, calculators, interactive tables and charts, as well as personalization tools allowing users to organize crucial project information as they work.

Journals

A journal is an academic publication that features articles written by scholars about their research. Most of them have been checked by other academics (i.e. peer reviewed) and they are more reliable than general web articles and newspaper articles.

 

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Valuers' Manual Chapters  

Commonly used Acronyms

Commonly used Legal Terms

Chapter 1 The functions of a valuer

Chapter 2 The responsibilities of a valuer and the instructing party, Types of Ownership, Title Deed and Surveyor General Information

Chapter 3 The relationship between land and improvements

Chapter 4 Land and its potentialities

Chapter 5 Depreciation and obsolescence

Chapter 6 Market value

Chapter 7 The principle of comparable substitution

Chapter 8 The object and use of valuation tables

Chapter 9 The capitalisation process

Chapter 10 A valuer’s role in expropriation

Chapter 11 Implications of the Consumer Protection Act No. 68 of 2008 with regard to services rendered by valuers

Chapter 12 VAT as it applies to property transactions

Chapter 13 Municipal Property Rating and Valuation

Chapter 14 Computer Assisted Mass Appraisals (CAMA)

Chapter 15 Valuation reporting

Chapter 16 The Property Valuation Act 17 of 2014 and the Land Valuer-General

Chapter 17 Land Restitution

Chapter 18 The value of water-use entitlement

Chapter 19 Water Rights

Chapter 20 Title deed conditions and land-use conditions overview

Chapter 21 A Guide to Market Valuations in the Absence of Market Information

Chapter 22 Sectional Title and the role of the valuer

Chapter 23 Basic Lay-man’s Preparation for Court – the Expert Witness

Chapter 24 Securing your property views

Appendices

Table of Cases

Index