FULL TURNKEY INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION CAPACITY

Multidisciplinary pioneer Stefanutti Stocks is one of Southern Africa’s leading listed construction groups with the capability to deliver a range of projects of any scale across the built infrastructure environment.

As a Level 1 BBBEE contributor with a Grade 9 rating from the Construction Industry Development Board, the company has an unlimited tender capability.

Stefanutti Stocks’ professional teams work in close partnership with the group’s clients and consultants, to develop innovative solutions that address project-specific requirements. It offers single-point accountability on multidisciplinary infrastructure development, effectively removing the interface risk from the client’s domain.

This multidisciplinary offering has enabled the group to strategically position itself in the mining industry, for which it has undertaken green- and brownfield mining infrastructure projects. Construction scope includes roads and earthworks, civils, geotechnical, building, mechanical and E&I installation services. Furthermore, to ensure infrastructure assets serve beyond their intended lifespan, Stefanutti Stocks offers economical and effective concrete repair, rehabilitation and maintenance solutions.

Multimillion-rand mine infrastructure projects

Stefanutti Stocks is actively engaged in a number of multimillion-rand, multidisciplinary mine infrastructure projects across Southern Africa. Construction highlights include its Inland Region’s sliding of one of the largest headgears constructed to date in South Africa at Ivanplats. With outside dimensions of 25 m x 21 m, with 1 m thick walls, the headgear is being slid to a height of 79 m above collar. The final 24 m will be constructed using structural steel and cladding, and will result in the final height of the structure being 127 m above hitch and 103 m above collar. During the first phase of this project, Stefanutti Stocks’ scope included the construction of the vent shaft plenum, upon which the remaining headgear concrete structure is now being slip formed.

In Zimbabwe, the Stefanutti Stocks team is constructing mining infrastructure for the SMC SO₂ Abatement and Smelter expansion project at the Zimplats Selous Metallurgical Complex. This comprises an SO₂ abatement plant, additional furnace, Peirce-Smith converters and associated utilities. The contractor’s multidisciplinary construction scope spans early works, earthworks, civil works, concrete works, infrastructure services, roads and stormwater, and early works for the electrical installation. A recent project highlight is a 35-hour-long, 1 400 m3 continuous pour for the emission-stack foundation. A further highlight will include the construction of the 180 m high emission stack, which will be constructed via the conical slip forming method.

After completing three large-scale, multimillion-rand project phases for the construction of tailings storage facility (TSF) infrastructure for the Anglo American Platinum Mototolo Concentrator Project, the group was recently awarded the fourth phase, for the extension of the TSF.

The group’s operational offering to the mining sector includes materials handling, tailings management and hydraulic remining services. Its time-critical Global Industry Standards for Tailings Management (GISTM) compliance offering to mining clients includes assistance with and the tracking of the full GISTM compliance matrix (cloud-based monitoring platform), as well as digitisation of all TSF monitoring (real-time live piezometer and freeboard readings via app, cloud or document warehouse).