Malindi Neluheni has been appointed as the first Chief Executive Officer of the Council for the Built Environment (CBE).

Malcolm Campbell, chairperson of the CBE, made the announcement yesterday.

The council was established in April 2001 in terms of Act 43 of 2000 to co-ordinate work of architecture-, engineering-, landscape architecture-, quantity surveying-, property valuers- and construction and project management professions.

Its key functions are to ensure alignment, by the professions, with government’s built environment policy initiatives, to meet strategic infrastructure delivery challenges.

Neluheni is a graduate of Cornell University (New York), where she obtained a Masters in City and Regional Planning. In 1998, she entered the University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee) to study for PhD programme from the Departments of Architecture and Civil Engineering, specialising in transportation.