2005 Press Articles

A substantial percentage of SA’s roads have been designed using the Civil Designer Roads module. This comprehensive road design package forms one of nine standalone modules that combine to form an integrated data gathering, drawing, surface modelling and design system for designers of   ... read more

A few months ago, the Uniondale rural town was completely different from the one that we know today. This fundamental change is largely due to the upgrade of various main roads that began in earnest in November 2004. This much needed venture has since been completed with a total project cost of ±R2,2 million.   ... read more

The new Kimberley prison, will house some 3000 inmates. The prison site alone is 27ha and will be completely cleared with no vegetation remaining. According to Eddie Schön of Copad Engineers, the design of the prison was dictated by different criteria to other projects and a lot of research ... read more

South African farmers are poised to receive a 40% allo-cation of a proposed 29 000 ha ethanol irrigation development in Mozambique for a period of 45 years. In exchange for the 45 years’ renewable lease, the farmers will share their business and agricul-tural skills with their Mozambican counterparts as part of a skills-transfer and job-creation initiative... read more

In many rural areas, households have to walk 200 metres just to get water. This situation has led to the Fort Brown bulk water supply project, an initiative that is aimed at the supply of bulk water to rural areas. “The project was requested by the Makana Municipality in Grahamstown and is currently ... read more

Windhoek Consulting Engineers has been tasked with the prestigious responsibility of completing all railway work in the North of Namibia, an appointment that has everyone smiling. To date, their biggest rail project is the Northern Railway Extension. This venture has been divided into ... read more

TO many, Lake Michelle is probably regarded as one of the most beautiful places in the world. Set amidst Noordhoek’s tranquil wetlands, this incredible lakefront development has inspired numerous investors to create breathtakingly magnificent homes. The R200 million residential initiative has been ... read more

When farmers in the Moamba/Sabie district of the province of Maputo visited the Nkomazi area in Mpumalanga, they were greatly impressed by the activities and success of these small-scale sugar cane farmers. From this visit an idea was born to work together to develop a similar project ... read more

Althea Povey is Divisional Director of Waste and Wastewater Treatment at KweziV3 Engineers and has recently been elected President of the South African Association of Consulting Engineers (SAACE), the first woman to hold this vital post. The SAACE is a business support organisation ... read more

2004 Press Articles

Kwezi V3 Engineers is a consulting practice in the field of engineering and development services. Over the last few years the company has grown from strength to strength and has achieved impressive feats in the areas of training and development, empowerment, market expansion and quality management, attaining ISO 9001 accreditation in 2003 ... read more

South African-based Ninham Shand Consulting Engineers was appointed to handle the design and the stormwater management in Phuthaditjhaba and Qwa Qwa as well as the construction of several gravel roads.   ... read more

Civil engineers in the industry often experience many design software problems. According to Vincent Bester, Managing Director of Knowledge Base Software (Pty) Ltd, the solution to these problems lies in the use of integrated software. 'The use of an integrated infrastructure design approach ... read more

HARRISMITH is bustling with activity as the Phuthaditjhaba and Qwa Qwa regions are placed in the spotlight for development projects. Phuthaditjhaba is located in the north eastern Free State Province and is bounded by Kwa-Zulu Natal to the southeast and Lesothu to the southwest ... read more

The upgrading of existing roads in the Eastern Cape Addo Elephant National Park has recently been completed with funding received by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism. Vuka Project Management Services was appointed by the SA National Parks to implement the project ... read more

First Draughtsman Lappies Labuschagne and Senior Draughtsman Marius Strydom describe how the water and sanitisation division of the Mangaung Municipality has evolved over the last fourteen years to carry out tasks with the use of integrated software ... read more

THE R300 extension from Prince George to Vanguard Drive is one of the major Cape Flats Freeways in the Western Cape that has been designed by Cape Town based Consulting Engineering firm, Jeffares & Green (J&G). According to Philip Howarth of J&G, the freeway extension will form part of ... read more

A clever software package is playing a key design role in one of the biggest civil engineering and infrastructural development programmes ever undertaken in South Africa – the Coega harbour project in Eastern Province ... read more

SCORES of mine waste disposal dams have been built across southern and central Africa in recent years as the development of the sub-continent has gathered pace. Hazardous or inert, slurry, sand or rocks - whatever the nature of the waste, specialized engineering design skills must be harnessed ... read more

The retail giant Shoprite / Checkers has been hard at work investigating different locations on the African continent for business expansion. Bellville based Tritan Survey trading as Matt Pepe & Associates was commissioned for the assessment of areas, which include Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique and ... read more

IT has taken almost five years, but the R50-million project to design and construct a sewerage reticulation and storage system for a population of about 100 000 people in the new Palm Ridge residential development south of Kathlehong in Gauteng is nearing completion ... read more

2003 Press Articles

THE upgrading of roads in Soweto is turning out to be a two-way street for people and business in the community.Of the R22-million spent on just one project for the design and construction of over 20kms of roads in Soweto in the last few months, fully a quarter – over R5-million ... read more

BRYANSTON. It used to be known as a quiet, comfortable, "upper-crust" suburb of northern Johannesburg. A good address. Much of it still is, of course. But along its main arteries it’s fast becoming a long perspective of civil engineering earthworks as shady gardens, pools and tennis court ... read more

A broad stretch of gently undulating land running more than 20kms from the foothills of Gauteng’s West Rand to Midrand in the east is said to be the fastest-developing area in South Africa. Formerly agricultural holdings, much of it is now being transformed into an urban grid of residential ... read more

Extensively used throughout South Africa as a design tool for civil engineers, locally developed computer software is now being put to work further afield in major regional infrastructural projects. As such, it is playing an important professional role in southern African development ... read more

ONE of the most sophisticated pieces of First World civil engineering design technology is being harnessed to builds roads in some of the most neglected rural areas of South Africa. Donga-like cart tracks which ran like flooded rivers in the wet season are being turned into proper roads ... read more