Customer Showcases/Achievements

CLIENT SHOWCASES

At Knowledge Base we are proud of the achievements of our customers. We like to monitor their success and regularly keep in contact with them. We do stories on both our large corporate clients and smaller players that are overcoming the day-to-day obstacles in completing their projects successfully.

PROMOTION OPPORTUNITY FOR CIVIL DESIGNER CLIENTS

In addition, we provide our clients with a marketing opportunity by publishing their success story in various top trade journals as part of our promotion strategy. This close relationship is highly prized by our existing clients and is another reason why Civil Designer is the number one choice among our users.

If you have a success story that you would like to tell us about, please email our publicist at info@civildesigner.com

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Dheven Pillay is a 'hands-on' civil engineer who spends a large amount of his time in the project management and design of roads and stormwater projects. In fact, you will rarely find Dheven in the office as he busies himself with site supervision and the mentoring initiatives... read more

THE much talked about Hospital Bend upgrade design has finally been completed and is currently under construction. According to Chief Technician Carlos dos Santos from BKS (Pty) Ltd Engineering and Management, the approximately R200-million upgrade to... read more

Jacky Tjijendeke-Mukuka initially decided to pursue her Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Namibia. When the opportunity arose to study Civil Engineering at the University of Witwatersrand however, she changed direction and hasn't looked back since. "... read more

Francois has been at Africon Namibia for eight years. This charismatic engineer is a born and bred Namibian who grew up in Swakopmund. He studied his Civil Engineering diploma at Technikon Pretoria and proceeded to complete his BTech through UNISA. .. read more

THE international allure was no match for the deep South African roots of Naas van Zyl. He moved to New Zealand in 1999, but found the South African call too strong and returned in 2002. "Not many ventures can beat the Coega development..." read more

SOME people have an addiction to golf, or a need for the great outdoors, but Erich Funk from Goba Consulting Engineers has an addiction to his work. He believes that you can't create Engineers or train them up to be one if they are not already engineers at heart... read more

Nosimphiwe "Nono" Mginywa became the first black woman to do the Roads Advanced Training course in 2005 and surprised every male student with an impressive performance. It was also her keen interest in road design that led her to Masuku Dube Tifflin in Port Elizabeth, allowing her to progress as a Civil Technician ... read more

"Civil engineers live a good life but they never get rich being a civil engineer. Our reward in this business is making a difference in peoples' lives and by doing so we leave behind a legacy for a better future.” These words uttered by Kevin Naidoo from Nathoo Mbenyane Engineers ring true in the heart of every civil engineer... read more

Ralph Waldo Emerson must have had André Delport in mind when he said, "nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." André's many accomplishments at Vela VKE Engineers in Mosselbay have certainly been great and he has greeted each new challenge with never-ending enthusiasm.  ... read more

Watze Hepkema of Africon Namibia admits to tackling many initiatives on his own and operates almost exclusively within a one-man band. “I have worked on many assignments in the last few years, but no other venture has challenged me quite as much as the Robert Mugabe upgrade and extension”  ... read more

Brian arrived at the doors of Ethekwini Municipality twenty-five years ago with the hope of working on some of the most extraordinary road projects in the City of Durban. Today, twenty-five years later, Brian is a well-respected and indispensable member of the City’s Road Division with an undisputed history of ... read more

What started out as a career move for Victor Rieger six years ago with his relocation to Windhoek has turned out to be one of the best decisions ever made. Today, Victor is a proud resident of Namibia and has found the adjustment from Johannesburg to be surprisingly easy. “When it comes to large-scale contracts... read more

The Mlungisi road in Queenstown was nothing more than an old neglected lane that required a major upgrade and stormwater drainage service. More than 7000 individuals and over 1000 erven were affected by the road’s condition, creating the need for an urgent upgrade... read more

The experienced eyes of André Spies twinkle with a ready smile. "I have to determine the level where the cut and fill are properly balanced, or for example balance a site using a 20% bulking factor and leaving about 5000m³ excess fill for later use. If I mess up here, the whole job starts on the wrong foot... read more

“The breathtaking beauty of the Ugie and Langeni areas is unknown to the rest of the Eastern Cape because the difficult terrain has restricted access to this vicinity. With the completion of the Ugie Langeni Project, this problem will become a thing of the past and entry into these areas will no longer be a concern,”... read more

Philip Howarth of Jeffares & Green Consulting Engineers has been involved in the conceptual planning and detail design of several major arterials and freeways in the Western Cape. One of these roads includes the Cape Flats Freeway (R300) extension from Prince George to Vanguard Drive ... read more

In this township of Tikwana in the Free State, dongas which they called roads and which ran like flooded rivers in the wet season, are now being turned into proper roads. It is a transformation, which sees one of the most sophisticated pieces of First World civil engineering design technology being harnessed to... read more

Building highways has more than just a practical or economic value in sub-Saharan Africa. There's also a symbolic element to it in the cross-boundary co-operative efforts which are increasingly involved in Africa's growth and rebirth. Modern technology - much of it sourced from South Africa - is being used in these enterprises ... read more

Most will be forgiven for not knowing exactly where Wittewater is on the West Coast and indeed up until now it has been a hard place to get to - linked only by a small gravel road from the R29 between Piketberg and Velddrif. And while, by all accounts there is not really much going on in this hamlet that consists of about ... read more

"A road linking Hout Bay and Noordhoek along the coast was impossible". That was the view of the commissioner of public works in a letter to the Cape Peninsula Publicity Association dated March 1910. Such a road, he insisted, would present "features of extreme difficulty, there being in one section... read more

"When I was still at school I couldn't make up my mind as to whether I wanted to be a make-up artist, an air hostess or a spy!" The road that Madeleine Sonnekus of Jeffares & Green in Sandton followed however went in a dramatically different direction to those childish dreams... read more

“I don't think there are too many people who have designed such a complex road in such a short time”, says Donovan Hugo of Hawkins Hawkins Osborn in Cape Town. The road in question is a 54.4km road with 312 horizontal curves and more than 200 vertical curves. The road joins two villages in the southwestern... read more

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