CONSULTING ENGINEERS
Awards
honour the best in engineering The country’s leading built environment professionals recently gathered for the 2019 CESA Aon Engineering Excellence Awards to celebrate South Africa’s excellence in engineering. SMEC South Africa delivered over 430 communal ablution facilities in eThekwini
settlements, serving more than 118 000 people across the city. The overall project budget exceeded R1.7 billion and continued over a fourand-a-half-year period. The project was geared towards contributing to the municipality’s social and economic agenda and demonstrated this successfully through the inclusion of labour-intensive construction methods and thereby the provision of economic opportunities for the local community.
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his year’s awards, hosted vir tually by Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) and sponsored by Aon South Africa, celebrated innovation, quality, outstanding workmanship, and professionalism. “The awards focus on consulting engineers and their clients who participate in or initiate projects that promote the advancement of our nation and the people of the continent. CESA recognises contributions of young professionals to the engineering profession and initiatives to transform and sustain the future,” says Chris Campbell, CEO, CESA. The project entries and winners are as follows:
OTHER ENTRIES: Zutari | Lower Thukela Bulk Water Supply Scheme
Settlements and Schools in eThekwini Municipality (Phase 3) Before 2007, the eThekwini Health Department was tasked with rolling out a project aimed at providing communal ablution share blocks to informal settlements. The Sanitation Phase 3 project directly addresses the need to remedy the severely adverse conditions experienced by the inhabitants of numerous informal settlements within eThekwini Municipality through the provision of basic water and sanitation facilities. This is demonstrated through the delivery of over 430 communal ablution facilities to over 34 informal
Projects with a value between R250 million and R1 billion WINNER: Zutari | Upgrade and Extension of Stellenbosch Wastewater Treatment Plant In 2011, the Stellenbosch Wastewater Treatment Works (WWTW) was operating over-capacity, dilapidated and struggling to meet effluent compliance. With the limited funds at hand, Stellenbosch Municipality appointed Zutari (formerly Aurecon) as consulting engineer, to upgrade the plant in 2014. The project comprised an upgrade of the plant to a full biological nutrient removal process that is capable of handling up to
Mega projects with a value greater than R1 billion WINNER: SMEC South Africa | Provision of Water and Sanitation to Informal
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