3.1.5 The Committee was amazed that the DCS, despite having claimed that the Tswelopele Correctional Centre, which itself had been subject to many expensive delays, would serve as the blueprint for future new- generation correctional centres, had apparently abandoned this blueprint in the case of the three correctional centres. The DPW denied that the blueprint had been completely abandoned and explained that the Ceres and Vanrhynsdorp projects had started 12 months before the Kimberley project was completed, and that, although the generic plan was used in the planning of the two Western Cape facilities, changes came about as a result of knowledge and experience acquired during the Tswelopele construction.