Abstract: “This paper presents a preliminary literature review on the prospects of reforms of adjudication and arbitration to aid construction dispute resolution in South Africa. At the moment, the prevailing method of resolving construction disputes in South Africa are Adjudication and arbitration. This paper seeks to propose effective legal framework for dispute resolution processes for the construction industry in South Africa. While relying on some recent advances recorded in Malaysia and Singapore. While the method adopted is purely doctrinal legal research, the study identifies the relevance of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) processes in the construction industry in South Africa as utilised elsewhere. The study found that the building blocks for the proposed dispute resolution framework in the construction industry in South Africa are already in place but they need to be properly placed for a sustainable framework. The use of qualitative approach was to enable the study to know the ex”

Keywords: ADR, Construction Dispute Resolution, Dispute Review Boards, South Africa