CONSULTING Engineers SA (Cesa) says that the government must make "hard economic decisions" about SA’s infrastructure development or face possible further unrest over service delivery.The warning comes as severe project delays plague Eskom’s new power stations, which along with violent strikes, underline the poor state of the civil engineering industry in SA.The body says in its latest biannual economic and capacity survey of the industry released on Monday that the level of satisfaction among engineering firms plunged from 87% in the first six months of the year to 46% in the second half of 2014."This is the weakest level since the 1998-99 financial crisis. There was a notable shift in the opinions expressed by larger firms in this survey," Cesa acting CEO Wally Mayne said."In the June 2014 survey, larger firms were unanimous in their views that the outlook for business conditions was satisfactory over the next 12 months, but this changed to just 22% of larger firms," he said.Cesa ...
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