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Publications & Showcases
Knowledge Base has published over 200 showcase stories on our clients with detailed examples of how engineers and architects have overcome the challenges of a variety of projects. We are proud of the achievements of all our users and enjoy seeing them succeed. We do stories on both our large corporate clients as well as smaller players that are overcoming the day-to-day obstacles in completing their projects successfully.
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RECENT CIVIL DESIGNER SHOWCASES
THE LANSERIA N14 LINK
The scope of the R375M project encompasses the construction of an additional bridge over the N14 and related access ramps between the N14 and K29...
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| Civil Designer Showcases 2008 - 2011 |
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DEVELOPING VISION
According to the Century City Urban Design Framework, the focal design feature of the development is the water system...
HHO Africa, Cape Town
COSMO CITY
At the time of its proposal more than a decade ago, the Cosmo City housing development was seen as a pioneering prototype...
WorleyParsons, Johannesburg
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NEW GENERATION INFRASTRUCTURE
"This is the biggest project we have done to date", says Dale Meyer, Administration Manager and part owner of Nelcor Civils....
Nelcor Civils, Cape Town
FAST TRACKED PROJECTS
Meeting service delivery deadlines according to tight specifications is the aim of every engineering project...
Knowledge Base
1/7
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SOCCER CITY
The co-ordinate system in Civil Designer's CAD module is better than any other package I have worked on...
PD Naidoo & Associates, Johannesburg
IMPALA MINES REFINERY POND
Aurecon, SA's largest consulting engineering company were awarded the R1.5million contract for the review...
Aurecon, Gauteng
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BUHREIN PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT
The Buhrein project is a mixed-use development that encompasses the entire spectrum of development disciplines...
EFG Engineers, Cape Town
GAUTRAIN RAPID RAIL LINK
Hugo worked closely with the software programmers at Knowledge Base to customise the alignment functions specifically...
HHO Africa, Gauteng
2/7
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KOEBERG INTERCHANGE
Earmarked by the Western Cape Provincial government, and designed by HHO Africa Infrastructure Engineers...
HHO Africa, Cape Town
NASREC INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENTS
With less than a year to go before eager spectators enter the 2010 Soccer World Cup stadium, the office of Goba's Gauteng branch...
GOBA, Gauteng
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QUALITY PUBLIC SPACES
The infrastructural benefits associated with the 2010 FIFA World Cup are deemed to be...
Brendon Abrahams
BACE Consulting Engineers, Cape Town
THE GARIEP DAM
Professional Technologist Jaco Prinsloo's charismatic leadership style has influenced...
Jaco Prinsloo
UWP Consulting Engineers, Bloemfontein
3/7
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NEW GROUND FOR BAU-AFRIKA
His interesting career path started at the then South African Transport Services where Kevin...
Kevin Siebert
Bau-afrika, Cape Town
THE MISSIONVALE MISSION
Percy Makofane was raised in a small village in Mpumalanga. As with many rural areas...
Percy Makofane:
Sigodi Marah Martin, Gauteng
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CAPE MORGAN ECO ESTATE DEVELOPMENT
Three recent developments in the Eastern Cape include the Cape Morgan...
Henk van der Watt
Element Consulting Engineers, Pretoria
MOUNT FLETCHER WATER PROJECT
Gareth Schroeter of Ron Beard Associates took an unusual path into civil engineering...
Gareth Schroeter
Ron Beard Associates, Eastern Cape
4/7
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SEATON DELAVAL EQUESTRIAN ESTATE
The allure of working on some of the biggest projects in South Africa is what keeps...
Jean-Paul van der Linde
UWP Consulting Engineers, Pietermaritzburg
GANSBAAI COASTAL DEVELOPMENTS
THE Gansbaai development set along the tranquil landscape of the Atlantic Coast...
Gideon Hahn
EFG Consulting Engineers, Cape Town
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THE VUKUZAKHE DEVELOPMENT
Dheven Pillay is a 'hands-on' civil engineer who spends a large amount of his time...
Dheven Pillay
Narasimulu & Associates, KZN
HOSPITAL BEND ROAD UPGRADE
THE much talked about Hospital Bend upgrade design has finally been completed and is...
Carlos dos Santos
BKS (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town
5/7
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A NAMIBIAN ROADS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Jacky Tjijendeke-Mukuka initially decided to pursue her Bachelor of Science degree at...
Jacky Tjijendeke-Mukuka
Namibian Roads Authority, Windhoek
THE AIR FORCE GROUND FORCE
Francois has been at Africon Namibia for eight years. This charismatic engineer is...
Francois Gouws
Africon Consulting, Namibia
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EQUIPPING YOUNG ENGINEERS
Some say the reasons they got their jobs included their competence in Civil Designer...
Raubie Raubenheimer
Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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| Civil Designer Showcases 2005 - 2007 |
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CEDAR CREEK ESTATE DEVELOPMENT
YOU will find one of the most beautiful sites in the Cedar Creek estate situated...
Edwin van Rensburg
Lidwala Consulting Engineers, Johannesburg
SAACE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
WHEN Johan van Schalkwyk walked through the offices of SAACE nearly three years ago...
Johan van Schalkwyk
SAAC, Gauteng
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ENGINEERING A BETTER FUTURE
After almost two years in the game, Focus Engineering has taken everyone...
André Wessels
Focus Engineering, Durban
DEVELOPMENTS IN SALDANHA BAY
AFTER a sixteen year track record in the field of Municipal Engineering, Martiens Victor is...
Martiens Victor
Saldanha Bay Municipality
1/8
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THE MOROCCAN 'PLAN AZUR'
AS Engineer Paolo Odorico describes the setting for the new Taghazout Beach...
Paolo Odorico
Hart Howerton, UK
THE COEGA DEVELOPMENT
THE international allure was no match for the deep South African roots of Naas van Zyl...
Naas van Zyl:
Izizwe Consulting Engineers, Port Elizabeth
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THE MATATIELE PROJECT
Our reward in this business is making a difference in peoples' lives...
Kevin Naidoo and Jermaine Maistry
Nathoo Mbenyane Engineers, Eastern Cape
T15 MOUNTAIN PASS UPGRADE
SOME people have an addiction to golf, or a need for the great outdoors, but Erich...
Erich Funk
Goba Consulting Engineers, Eastern Cape
2/8
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DEVELOPMENTS IN UNIONDALE
The allure of working on some of the biggest projects in South Africa is what keeps...
Andre Delport
Vela VKE Engineers, Mosselbay
THE MOSES MABIDA PROJECT
Gerald Smith from Jeffares & Green Port Elizabeth lives life to the full...
Gerald Smith
Jeffares & Green, Port Elizabeth
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WEDGEWOOD VILLAGE COUNTRY ESTATE
THE pride is evident on Andre Botha's face when he talks about the Wedgewood Village Golf and Country Estate...
Andre Botha, SSI, Port Elizabeth
SEBOKENG WASTE WATER WORKS
YOU will find one of the best looking views of Knysna from the Sintec Office...
Stanley van den Heever
Sintec Consulting Engineers, Knysna
3/8
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N2 GATEWAY PROJECT
When it comes to bulk sewer projects, the sewer design for the N2 Gateway...
Adrian Coetzee and Johan Prins
Kwezi V3 Engineers, Belville
MACLEAR PEDDY WASTEWATER WORKS
EAST London is literally buzzing with the latest activities in waste water treatment projects...
Victor de Wet
Arcus Gibb, East London
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BULK WATER SERVICES
FST Consulting Engineers first opened its doors to the East London community...
Johann du Preez
FST Consulting Engineers, East London
THE MAGALIES WATER PROJECT
Lilene Louw from Kwezi V3 Engineers is the epitome of beauty, brains and drive...
Lilene Louw
Kwezi V3 Engineers, Bloemfontein
4/8
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BLOEMSIDE SEWER NETWORK
The design and produce construction drawings for a network of more than 120 kms...
Alphons van der Merwe
Kwezi V3 Engineers, Bloemfontein
NGQUSI BULK WATER SUPPLY
THE history behind the Ngqusi bulk water supply project in the Eastern Cape began...
Francois Lyon
Africon, Eastern Cape
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CIVIL DESIGNER 6.4 HAS MORE FOR ALL
The much anticipated Civil Designer 6.4 has recently been placed under the spotlight with rigorous testing by the software...
The Knowledge Base Development Team
MAKE NO PRIOR ASSUMPTIONS
Randall Dirks arrived in Umtata on a Monday 10 years ago...
Randall Dirks
HHO Africa, Umtata
5/8
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NEW KIMBERLEY PRISON
The new Kimberley prison that will house some 3000 inmates is a big project...
Eddie Schön
Copad Engineers, Kimberley
KIMBERLEY'S THE BIG HOLE
"We work in a wide circle around Kimberley, roughly 200km in any direction...
Dirk Potgieter
MVD Consulting Engineers, Kimberley
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LAKE MICHELLE
To many, Lake Michelle is probably regarded as one of the most beautiful places...
Peter Wium
De Villiers Sheard, Cape Town
COEGA DEVELOPMENT
Paul Silayi is passionate about engineering and enjoys using engineering software...
Paul Silayi
CBM Consulting Engineers, Eastern Cape
6/8
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ACROSS THE SEA IN SEARCH OF WATER
Sanjiva is halfway through a second three-year contract as Senior Water Engineer with...
Sanjiva Sharma
Botswana Department of Water Affairs
ROBERT MUGABE ROAD EXTENSION
Watze Hepkema is a quiet unassuming young gentleman who is rarely intimidated by...
Watze Hepkema
Africon, Namibia
7/8
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HOTA-MBEWULA BULK WATER SCHEME
Although Kwezi Mpuhlu is an incredibly ambitious man, he understands...
Kwezi Mpuhlu
MBSA Consultants, East London
RAMATEX DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
'There's never a dull moment here,' says Dirk Reed, Acting Chief Engineer at the Roads...
Dirk Reed
Windhoek Consulting Engineers, Namibia
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| Civil Designer Showcases 2002 - 2004 |
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JAN VAN RIEBEEK DRIVE, PAARL
"We were busy moving this river just outside Witbank. The project was...
Adrian Skea
UWP Consulting, Cape Town
WATER & WASTEWATER CHALLENGES
Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm...
Althea Povey, KweziV3 Engineers
Johannesberg
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ONE-WAY ROAD SYSTEM, DURBANVILLE
Surveyors are the first people into the green fields to prepare the landscape for future development. People tend to take...
Peter Whitwam, City of Cape Town
ADDO ELEPHANT PARK CHALLENGES
THE Addo Elephant National Park project is perhaps one of the most challenging...
Graham Webster
Africon, Port Elizabeth
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MILLION-DISTRICT ROAD, UMTATA
Port Elizabeth is certainly the place to be with the development of a new deep-water port...
Stefan Oosthuizen
PD Naidoo & Associates, Port Elizabeth
MFULENI BULK EARTHWORKS PROJECT
Liebenberg & Stander was commissioned by the City of Cape Town...
Marthinus Retief
Liebenberg & Stander, Cape Town
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COEGA HARBOUR PROJECT
A clever software package is playing a key design role in one of the biggest civil...
Coenraad Oosthuysen's
Protekon , Eastern Cape
DATA CAPTURE FOR BOOM AREA
It's said to be the fastest-developing area in South Africa - a broad stretch...
Gavin Clunnie
Klunene Consulting Engineers, Gauteng
3/9
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TOLL PLAZA DESIGN
Analysing the financial feasibility of toll projects can be quite intricate...
Pieter Goosen
Tolplan Consulting, Pretoria
CIVIL DESIGNER IMPROVING BUSINESS
You can only succeed on a project of this size and complexity when the team makes it work...
Sampie Laubscher
NHL, Cape Town
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QUARRY REHABILITATION
Taxis using a "detour" through a disused quarry in Cato Ridge to avoid...
Martin Koekemoer
Moore Spence Jones Ltd, Cape Town
UMTATA -EAST LONDON RAIL UPGRADE
Five years ago Cape Town may have been the boomtown, but now the Eastern Cape...
Dallas Dewey
Arcus Gibb, Eastern Cape
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NO ROOM FOR MISTAKES
I have to determine the level where the cut and fill are properly balanced, or for example...
André Spie
Africon, Cape Town
IMPROVED ACCESS TO UGIE AND LANGENI
The breathtaking beauty of the Ugie and Langeni areas is unknown to the rest of...
Ties Bos
ZAI consulting engineers, Eastern Cape
5/9
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R300 EXTENSION
Philip Howarth has been involved in the conceptual planning and detail design...
Philip Howarth
Jeffares & Green, Cape Town
HI-TECH STORMWATER
In this township of Tikwana in the Free State, dongas which they called roads...
Danie Kassleman
NEP Consulting Engineers, Free State
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BUILDING AFRICAN HIGHWAYS
Building highways has more than just a practical or economic value in sub-Saharan Africa...
Du Bruyn Jonker, Kwezi V3, Pretoria
CHAPMANS PEAK - THE IMPOSSIBLE ROAD
"A road linking Hout Bay and Noordhoek along the coast was impossible". That was...
Willem de Vries
Stewart Scott International, Cape Town
6/9
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SURVEYS TO UPGRADE EASTERN CAPE
With a new office opening in Umtata during August, NzeleNzele, Preston & Medcalf...
Mike Medcalf
NPM Geomatics, Umtata
COFAMOSA IRRIGATION DEVELOPMENT
When farmers in the Moamba/Sabie district of the province of Maputo visited...
Bernard Masher, Du Plessis & Burger Consulting Engineers, Mpumalanga
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NEW HEIGHTS IN LESOTHO MOUNTAINS
I don't think there are too many people who have designed such a complex road...
Donovan Hugo
Hawkins Hawkins Osborn, Cape Town
KATHLEHONG TOWNSHIP
The design and construction drawings for a network of more than 120 kms of sewerage lines...
Meyer Cronje, BCP Engineers, Pretoria
7/9
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WATER SUPPLY FOR INSIKA YETHU
For the people in the Insika Yethu Municipal area, collecting water is very hard work...
Vumile Jack, Camdekon Consulting Engineers
Chris Hani District
WATER SUPPLY FOR MARITZBURG CITY
The new South Africa continues to pose challenges for engineers. In the old...
Chris Brand
Jeffares & Green, Pietermaritzburg
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CEDARVILL DEVELOPMENT
Nevil Tyler is an unconventional and caring visionary, but also a man of compelling action...
Nevil Tyler
Net Projects, Durban
UMTATA DEVELOPMENTS
Working in the new South Africa as an engineer requires six things, what I call...
Wiero Vogelzang
Arcus Gibb, Durban
8/9
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WITTEWATER WEST COAST ROAD
This new road makes a huge difference to the people of Wittewater...
Gideon Hahn
Provincial Administration Western Cape
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