The Civil Engineering Contractor September 2018 | Page 8

ON CONSULTANTS’ DESKS
City of Windhoek’s water plan
The project surrounds the construction of a
16-million-ton-a-year expansion project.
Manganese export
expansion project
Project:
Client:
Location:
Port, infrastructure
Transnet Port Terminals
Eastern Cape
Bids have been invited for the provision of
environmental consultancy and specialist services
for a new manganese export terminal at the Port of
Ngqura, which is located within the Eastern Cape
region’s critical Coega special economic zone. The
project involves the construction of a 16-million-
ton-a-year manganese export expansion project.
Developed as an integrated rail and port solution,
the greater project will include the upgrade and
expansion of the rail network between Hotazel,
in the Northern Cape, and Port Elizabeth, in the
Eastern Cape; the provision of a new bulk minerals
export terminal at the Port of Ngqura; and the
commissioning of the two existing berths.
Rail infrastructure comprises the provision of
new compilation yards, in Mamathwane and Coega
(near the Port of Ngqura); new crossing loops and
the lengthening of existing crossing loops en route
to accommodate 200 wagon trains; maintenance
and operational facilities; and monitoring
equipment. Terminal infrastructure at the port will
comprise new bulk materials handling equipment,
including a stockyard, stackers, reclaimers and
surge bins, roads, infrastructure services and
buildings, as well as a train-marshalling yard with
an unloading system (tippler). The project will
include a conveyor system linking the stockyard
with existing berths. The two existing berths in
the port will be equipped with twin shiploaders to
handle the manganese exports.
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Zone
Project:
Client:
Location:
Water, infrastructure
City of Windhoek
Namibia
The services included under this project are to participate
as a member of an advisory panel consisting of water supply,
sanitation, and IUWM specialists, to assist the City of
Windhoek’s steering committee and project implementation
unit. The panel will advise on quality control of the
findings of the Windhoek integrated water and wastewater
master plan being executed by an independently appointed
consultant. With specialised water and water engineering
and financial investigation skills, the consultants will advise
City of Windhoek that the core objectives of the master plan
document have been achieved.
The contract time is estimated at about one month spread
over the total project duration of approximately 30 calendar
months. The objective of the master plan is to provide a strategic
document with a vision for the sustainable development and
operation of water and wastewater facilities for City of
Windhoek. The studies further include hydraulic modelling
of the water and wastewater bulk and reticulation networks
and aim to provide an operational document dictating the
required works, costs, impacts, and sequence of investment
for the required water and wastewater infrastructure. It may
also include the detail design of a priority investment project
to be executed by the master plan consultant.
Mace quantity surveyors appointed
to transform SA’s airports
Project:
Client:
Location:
Aviation
Airports Company South Africa (Acsa)
Gauteng, South Africa
MMQSA and Mace’s joint venture cost consultancy business in
South Africa (MMQSAMace) has been appointed as quantity
surveyors for three aviation projects worth more than R950-
million by client Acsa. The consultancy has been appointed
to work on Johannesburg’s OR Tambo and Cape Town
International Airports, the busiest and third busiest airports in
Africa, respectively.
MMQSAMace was appointed to the Acsa three-year quantity
surveying framework earlier in 2018 and has now been awarded
three separate projects. The three projects combined will see
MMQSAMace and the client working together with the rest of
the project team to deliver almost R1-billion of improvements
to the two airports. These improvements include refurbishment
of part of the airside corridor and construction of five new
passenger seating nodes at OR Tambo airport.