COMPANY PROFILE
2015
Haw & Inglis
(021) 976 1110 | www.haw-inglis.co.za
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Paving the way to success Editorial: Rebecca Bingley
The Haw & Inglis Group, based in Cape Town, has long established itself as one of the leading and independent construction specialists operating across Southern Africa. Over the last three decades, it has focused on road construction and rehabilitation, civil engineering infrastructure with a range of more specialised areas including geotechnical contracting and aggregate supply.
Established in the Western Cape, with its headquarters in Cape Town, Haw & Inglis’ main business centers on road construction and rehabilitation, infrastructure and building construction. Founded in 1984, the company boasts a wealth of experience working alongside key companies on major national and provincial arterial roads, busy urban highways and concentrating on building and urban infrastructure including commercial, residential and industrial. With three main divisions: Haw & Inglis Civil Engineering (Pty) Ltd, Great Karoo Crushing (Pty) Ltd and Haw & Inglis Projects (Pty) Ltd, the company has successfully established a firm position as one of the leading independent contractors operating across South Africa today.
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Adrian Robinson from Haw & Inglis, explains: “As we grew, it became apparent that we had to formalise operations to run the company to its full potential. “H&I Projects focuses more on building work. Normally construction companies will split operations between civil work and building work and we done that, starting H&I Projects in 2005. Before this, we never entered the building market officially, although we had done some small projects with low cost housing, but H&I Projects now solely work on specific building projects. “Great Karoo Crushing (GKC) is our plant and crushing department. This was formed in 1999 through a natural split. They look after plant and material and we hire from them for
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work on our sites.” All three subsidiaries help to ensure efficient cost control throughout the Haw & Inglis Group and following two mergers with Peak Projects and Ursa Civils in 2007 and 2012 respectively, the company’s capacity increased further. Dealing mainly within the private, public and PPP (Public, Private Partnerships), Haw & Inglis Projects subsidiary carries out construction work, varying from smaller industrial complexes to more modern office buildings and residential complexes. With continued support and on hand assistance of architects, quantity surveyors and consulting engineers, Haw & Inglis is able to provide an efficient and reliable turnkey service to clients.
DIVERSIFYING INTO RENEWABLE ENERGY The company’s construction capabilities now covers a wide base and in 2013, Haw & Inglis made the decision to venture into the renewable energy market over the coming years, playing a pivotal role in the construction of wind farms. “In the future, we hope to work more with the wind farms in the renewable sector,” explains Robinson. “We will handle the roads and the concrete bases that house the turbines. It is hoped that this will take up 20-30% of our capacity in the next few years.” Through its acquisition of Ursa Civils in December 2012, this will help to ensure Haw & Inglis is fully equipped for the potential challenges venturing into this new energy sector will present.
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company profile Haw & Inglis invested in a number of German machines, at a cost of R12 million to add to its already impressive fleet, back in 2013. Replacing the John Whitford Griffiths WR2400 machines, Robinson explains the manufacturers have a long standing reputation: “We were probably only the second construction company to buy Wirtgen machines and we have been using them for about 15 years. The machines develop every five to ten years, they are always being upgraded but the fundamental idea remains the same.”
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Budding portfolio of extensive experience in 17 April 2015a01:29:39 PM this field, this was a strategic move, as Robinson explains: “In the renewable energy sector, we acquired a company called Ursa Civils. They are the only company that built bases for the wind towers at Coega in Port Elizabeth. We acquired the company with the vision of expanding our contracts with renewables and also water and sewerage work. We feel that there will be many opportunities in this sector. “They have worked in the Eastern and Western Cape and are currently working in the Northern Cape so they have a broad knowledge of the industry,” Robinson explains. With imminent plans to pursue projects such as these, Robinson highlights the need of construction work at these wind farm locations: “The farms that we will be involved with will have a number of turbines, ranging from 10 to 47 so there are huge requirements for concrete work on these wind farms.” To ensure its work maintains the high standard and quality it has developed such a reputation for,
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Looking back over its three decades in operation, Haw & Inglis has been involved in some of the country’s most important and essential construction projects. Work first began on Chapman’s Peak Drive in 1915, in an era where Environmental Impact Assessments were not required, the 11km of road took a total of four years to complete. The stretch of road however, has paved a hazardous history with numerous landslides and in May 1980, part of the road was washed away during torrential weather conditions. At such an expense to maintain, it was decided in 2000 to switch the responsibility to road users rather than the taxpayer and a toll was introduced at the end of 2003 to those who travel the road. Numerous updates and construction works have been implemented on Chapman’s Peak Drive since the first foundations were laid almost a century ago and over an 8-month period in 2008, Haw & Inglis was involved in the road rehabilitation and new toll plaza building development for its client, Entilini Concession (Pty) Ltd. This included an upgrade to the rockfall protection installations, construction of 2500n 3 gabion walls, a new gabion rockfall dam and shotcrete and mesh treatment of the many unstable areas surrounding Chapman’s Peak Drive – all in time for the road to reopen in 2009. Haw & Inglis has been involved in numerous large projects and while it initially stuck to more geographical locations in the Cape, it has since ventured onto and seen success in Northern Kwa Zulu Natal and Southern Free State areas. Throughout its first two decades, Haw & Inglis completed an estimated 23 million square meters of surfacing, securing 2,300 km of surfaced roads and urban developments under its belt, this helped
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to cement its ever competitive position in the road construction industry across Southern Africa. A number of other key projects Haw & Inglis has been involved in over the years include the Clifton Terraces located in Cape Town – a complex multi-level residential block, the tenstorey building underwent a range of complex geotechnical work followed by building structure construction work, all to the company’s reputable high standards. Haw & Inglis was also involved in Cape Town’s first 5-star green rated office building, the New Bloemhof Electricity Services Head Office Building, which was constructed to both ISP 9001 and 14001 standards. Staying on the green and renewable path, Haw & Inglis played an active role in the update of the Scottsdene taxi rank – now one of South Africa’s first certified Green star rated taxi ranks - it features a solar power generation and a recycled water system. With such an impressive reputation and project list behind it, there is no doubt that Haw & Inglis will continue to cement its position as a true industry leader throughout Southern Africa and neighbouring countries, paving the way for a very successful future
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