The Civil Engineering Contractor January 2019 | Page 32

PROFILE
Connecting communities
with opportunities
The Grayston Pedestrian Bridge forms part of a major pedestrian and cycling corridor built to
connect residents of Alexandra Township to Sandton, over the busy M1 freeway.
By Eamonn Ryan
Award-winning Grayston
Pedestrian Bridge connects
10 000 people a day with
work opportunities. Leader
of this bridge team was
Darryl Klassen (PrEng),
structural engineer:
Transport & Planning: Africa
at Royal HaskoningDHV.
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T
he design and delivery of
the Grayston Pedestrian
Bridge in Johannesburg
won consultant Royal
HaskoningDHV four awards at the
2018 SAICE Johannesburg Regional
Awards: the Most Outstanding
Civil Engineering Achievement –
Community-based Category; the
Most Outstanding Project in the
Transport Engineering Category;
it came second in the Technical
Excellence Category; and third in
the Most Outstanding Project in the
Structural Engineering Category.
The Grayston Pedestrian Bridge
also received a Commendation in
the category ‘Projects with a value
between R50-million and R250-
million’ at the 2018 CESA Aon
Engineering Excellence Awards,
followed by the award for the
Most Outstanding Project in the
Transportation Engineering Category
at the 2018 SAICE National Awards
held in Cape Town in October.
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