Aurecon in Africa

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AURECON IN AFRICA across AME and APAC.
Aurecon is a leading, vibrant, global group
created by the recent fusion of three world- Industries
class companies, Africon, Connell Wagner and
Aurecon operates in all major industries,
Ninham Shand. Our new group has a
including:
combined 210-year history; a staff complement
Advisory and Management Consulting
of 6 300; and an office network extending
Buildings and Property
across 28 countries worldwide.
Community Infrastructure
Aurecon provides multi-disciplinary Defence
professional services on a broad range of Education and Training
infrastructure projects across diverse Energy
industries, with clients and projects in 69 Environment
countries. The group is committed to securing Health
an enduring sustainable future and embraces Integrated Communications Technology
diversity. Industrial
International Development Assistance
The group is principally owned by Aurecon Local Government
executives throughout the global business a Mining and Metals
group of skilled professionals committed to Oil and Gas
building their own technical expertise, and to Telecommunication
the ongoing development of their teams. They Transportation
are heavily involved in managing and delivering Water
project outcomes for clients, with a strong focus
on economic viability and constructability, Our expertise
utilising practical, sustainable and innovative
solutions. With our stability, geographic reach, depth of
knowledge and experience, Aurecon is able to
Aurecon provides a broad range of multi- effectively and efficiently manage a clients
disciplinary professional technical services projects. Aurecon is attuned to client and
across diverse industries. stakeholder needs and expectations. We are
committed to deliver exemplary results in all the
Vision projects undertaken, and to exceed those
needs and expectations.
Aurecons vision is: Leading. Vibrant. Global.
Mission At every stage of a project, our services are
Aurecons mission is to foster human designed to assist clients to transform their
development by: deploying deep-rooted visions into reality. Aurecon delivers:
professional technical skills; and teaming with Technical excellence
our clients for positive outcomes. Skilled and experienced teams of
professionals
Our global reach Access to innovative design, thought
leadership and technical expertise
To suit the vast geographical reach of Aurecon
A practical approach to problem solving
operations, the newly created group provides
A sound understanding of project
professional technical services on a broad
economics
range of integrated infrastructure projects to
clients across two key zones: Effective communications and reporting
Africa and the Middle East (AME); and
Asia Pacific (APAC).
 Industry recognition
AURECON IN AFRICA
Aurecons commitment to service excellence,
innovation and thought leadership has been
acknowledged by top business and industry
associations. The company is recognised for its
contributions and achievements with major
awards in all service areas including:
Modern technology
Innovative thinking
Thought leadership
Practical and cost-effective solutions
Service excellence
Aurecons Heritage
Companies
Africon was South Africas largest, privately
owned infrastructure consultancy with an
established network of 32 offices extending
across South Africa, the rest of Africa and the
Middle East.
Connell Wagner was one of Asia Pacifics
largest and most experienced multi-disciplinary
consulting companies. The company was
privately owned and had a 75-year history, a
staff complement of more than 4 100 and a
network of offices spanning Australasia, South-
East Asia, China, India and the Middle East.
Ninham Shand was one of South Africas
leading, privately owned companies of
consulting engineers and environmental
scientists with a proud history spanning more
than 75 years.
Quality Management
Aurecon's operations management system is
flexible, simple and adaptable to all projects,
large and small. The adoption of a common
system across all our offices ensures a
consistent approach throughout the company.
This system applies to all Aurecon activities
from concept, feasibility and planning phases,
through to the design and construction phases
of a project, as well as ancillary services
including advisory, survey and project
management.
Third party certifiers have endorsed our
systems according to international ISO 9001
and ISO 14001 standards. The group is
upgrading certification to incorporate the latest
revision of the standard, ISO 9001:2008, with
PriceWaterhouseCoopers acting as the
certifying authority. This upgrade is scheduled
for completion in July 2009.
Sustainability
Climate change is recognised as one of the
greatest challenges facing governments,
industries and the public.
In response to the call for decisive action to
lessen the impact of climate change on the
environment, business leaders are increasingly
putting strategies in place to measure and
manage their greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions, with the aim of using this knowledge
to reduce their organisations carbon footprint.
We recognise that sustainability is about
encouraging social, economic and
environmental equity amongst present
populations whilst cultivating a liveable world
for our future generations.
Aurecon is committed to adopting sustainability
principles in all aspects of our business and
client services.
As an active member of the Green Building
Council of Australia, New Zealand and South
Africa, Aurecon understands the importance of
delivering every project sustainably. We pride
ourselves in our sustainable design solutions,
many of which are recognised by major
industry awards.
Skills Development
Aurecons most valuable asset is knowledge
this emanates from our skilled and talented
pool of professionals. The company is
committed to providing all employees access to
structured career development opportunities,
through internal and external training, online
learning, on-the-job development and
knowledge workshops.
Aurecon supports staff through further
education and training by means of an
education assistance scheme. The companys
AURECON IN AFRICA learning and development strategy facilitates a
proactive approach, empowering staff to
manage their own career paths. Aurecons
popular Mentorship programme is an effective
way for our young professionals to gain
knowledge and develop valuable skills
enriching their work experience and careers.
Why Choose Aurecon?
Clients have access to our global resource
pool. This allows for highly effective and
efficient allocation and mobilisation of
resources.
Clients benefit from our global delivery
capability, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
We share with clients the value of our
groups extensive project experience and
thought leadership providing innovative,
cost-effective and proven solutions.
Aurecon involvement in Africa
With a strong commitment to our clients,
we respond quickly to their requests for
specialist advice on concepts,
independent peer reviews or design
verification.
Our sound understanding and knowledge
of critical factors including geographic,
cultural, climatic, environmental, statutory
and legal requirements, in global markets,
gives clients peace of mind as they enter
new frontiers.
Our priority is to build and nurture strong
and collaborative relationships with our
clients to gain a clear understanding of
their business and project objectives.
SOUTH AFRICA PROJECTS Engineering design and supervision
for the Peter Mokaba Stadium,
Polokwane
The new Peter Mokaba stadium in Polokwane,
Limpopo Province, has 45 000 permanent
seats. The current construction value is R860
million and construction will be completed by
end June 2009. Aurecon is responsible for all
the engineering services, including civil,
structural, geotechnical, traffic, electrical, and
electronic, HVAC as well as fire and wet
services on this project.
Department of Foreign Affairs
Building Public-Private Partnership,
Pretoria
The construction of the Department of Foreign
Affairs building in Soutpansberg Road in
Pretoria has been awarded to a Design and
Construct Consortium with Concor as the main
contractor. Aurecon, together with Iliso
Consulting and LMA, were responsible for the
civil and structural design of these new facilities
which consist of a new office building and large
conference centre of approximately 140 000
square metres, a new guest house also in
Soutpansberg Road (3 600 square metres) and
the upgrading and expansion of the Foreign
Affairs existing guest house in Waterkloof
Heights.
Iliso is responsible for the bulk earthworks and
all on-site services including roads and
stormwater. Aurecon is responsible for the
structural design of 80% of the main building,
all structural steel bridges, balconies and roofs
and all the facade engineering. The total value
of the project is approximately R1.3 billion and
the completion date is March 2009.
Pinnacle Point Beach and Golf
Resort, Mossel Bay
Set on the edge of the Indian Ocean, Pinnacle
Point Beach and Golf Resort is situated at the
gateway to the Garden Route of South Africa. It
consists of four hundred hectares of prime
land, of which one hundred hectares comprise
the nature reserve. The resort is home to
indigenous wildlife, birdlife and 264 varieties of
fynbos. Pinnacle Point consists of an 18-hole
championship golf course incorporating three
separate residential components - 120 golf
lodges, 114 golf villas and 406 freehold erven.
The development also consists of a 50-room
hotel, casino and a wellness centre.
All developments are sensitively integrated with
the surrounding nature reserve. The golf
course includes dramatic cliffside holes and
was designed by renowned golf architect Peter
Matcovitch, who describes this course as "the
most dramatic golf course site I've ever
encountered anywhere in the world!"
Aurecon was appointed as principal civil,
structural and electrical engineers for the entire
development. This included the drafting of the
tender documentation and doing contract
administration for the golf course. Aurecon was
also responsible for the design of a 3,7M
wastewater treatment works. The civil services
contracts, as well as the golf course, club
house and main entrance facility were
completed in 2006. The water treatment works
were completed in October 2005.
SOUTH AFRICA PROJECTS Northgate Celebration mixed-use
development, Johannesburg
Aurecon was appointed to do the preliminary
and detailed designs for the new Celebration
mixed-use development in Johannesburg. The
Celebration site is bordered by Northumberland
Avenue to the east, Aureole Avenue to the
north, Valley Road to the west and Olienhout
Avenue to the south. The development will be
constructed in five zones as follows:
School
Village centre comprising retail,
commercial and residential zones (similar
to Melrose Arch)
Residential (freehold and possible
sectional title)
Residential/commercial buildings
Retail above the existing Sasol parking lot
The project started construction in 2007 and
will be phased, depending on demand, to 2010.
Aurecon was responsible for the design of all
civil engineering and structural services. This
included electrical bulk services, wet services
and facade engineering. The value of the
services is worth R322 500 000.
Woolworths Distribution Centre,
Gauteng
This new 87 000m Gauteng Distribution
Centre for Woolworths will serve the entire
country outside the Western and Eastern Cape.
Aurecon is the structural, civil, geotechnical
and transportation engineers for the project.
A major earthworks contract is needed to
create a level platform of 1km long. The main
building has concrete columns and a structural
steel roof with clear internal spans of 40m.
Wide racking aisles and a 12,5m racking height
are being used with FM2 floor tolerances as
per concrete society TR 34. Freezer room
areas, chilled areas, peri-ambient and ambient
storage areas are being provided as well as a
tray-wash area. External aprons are a
combination of concrete surface beds and
interlocking pavers.
Preparation of a national transport
master plan for South Africa, 2005-
2050
The primary objective of this project was the
development and formulation of a framework
National Transport Master Plan (NTMP) that
will enable decision-making by the National
Department of Transport (NDoT) with respect
to the relevant multi-modal and integrated
transport infrastructure and services planning.
South Africa's nine provinces are each
responsible for its own transport infrastructure
and services planning. The respective
municipal, provincial and national spheres are
all subjected to, and hampered by, significant
problem areas and constraints. The need was
identified for an overall framework to address
all problem areas and constraints, while at the
same time providing guidance with respect to
how transport infrastructure and services
should be planned, in accordance with
available and changing land-use, and decision-
making with regard to transport infrastructure
and services, within the available national
legislative framework.
The purpose of the NTMP was ultimately two-
fold: This NTMP served as the required
mechanism through which the NDoT provided
a national framework in terms of which
transportation systems planning,
implementation, maintenance, operations,
investments and monitoring decisions were to
be made. The NTMP also served as an action
plan that provided the NDoT with a time frame
that indicated the actions required for
addressing transportation systems planning,
implementation, maintenance, operations,
investments and monitoring decisions, and also
indicated the time frame across which these
actions had to take place. Aurecon provided:
SOUTH AFRICA PROJECTS Data collection and synthesising of
information
Status quo overview
Transport planning
Transport economics
Socio-economics
Macro-economics
Transport modelling
Traffic and travel demand forecasting
Scenario development
Statistical analysis
Spatial and land-use planning
Financing, policy and investment
Institutional restructuring
Environmental planning
Transport policy and legislation
Extensions and upgrading of the
international terminals at OR Tambo
International Airport, South Africa
The growth in international traffic required that
the international terminals of OR Tambo
International Airport be upgraded. The project
started in 1996 with the upgrading and
extension by some 75m to the north of the
existing terminal building. This entailed the
construction of a basement, arrivals and
departure levels, mezzanine levels and roof
offices as well as the addition of three holding
lounge nodes that extended some 40m onto
the airside apron. During the full duration of the
construction works, the terminal was kept
operational and all tenants had to be
accommodated. A baggage sorter was installed
as well as 102 check-in desks with three new
baggage carousels in the arrivals hall.
This project was later extended to the south by
demolishing the old existing domestic terminal
building and replacing it with a new central
terminal building some 225m long by 70m wide
with a double basement for baggage handling
and six floor levels above.
The first part of the project, ie the extension to
the north and onto the apron, was completed
successfully within time and budget despite the
changing nature of the client requirements. A
large portion of the works included a retail
component with changing commercial tenant
requirements that had to be accommodated up
to a very late stage. The planning of the
internal operations during the refurbishment of
the landside and airside facilities proved to be a
challenging task but was carried out
successfully. Aurecon was responsible for the
structural support work for the baggage
handling system in the double basement, the
atrium roof lights, all the faade steelwork, and
the wet services within the central terminal
building. Additionally, Aurecon was also
responsible for the HVAC design up to the
tender stage. High priority was given
throughout to keep the airport a neat and safe
environment in order for the public not to
experience it as a construction site.
Independent Engineer for the N4
Platinum Toll Highway
Aurecon was appointed to act as Independent
Engineer on the Platinum Toll Highway, which
includes the portion of the N1 between Pretoria
and Bela-Bela, as well as the N4 between
Pretoria and Skilpadhek on the border with
Botswana.
Aurecons duties included coordinating the
tender process, advising on a preferred bidder,
SOUTH AFRICA PROJECTS auditing preliminary and detailed designs,
including various engineering disciplines,
environmental aspects and socio-economic
development, reviewing construction control,
including review of an Incident Management
System (IMS), Management Information
System (MIS), quality assurance, toll systems,
operation and maintenance, financial auditing
and legal issues. Services included:
Reviewing preliminary and detailed
designs
Reviewing environmental aspects
Socio-economic development
Reviewing construction quality control,
including review and audit of an Incident
Management System (IMS), Management
Information system (MIS) and quality
assurance
Toll systems operation and maintenance
Financial auditing
Reviewing legal issues
Upgrading of 14km of National Road
N2 Section 9 from Tsitsikamma to
Witelsbos
Aurecon won the prestigious Mail & Guardian
Greening the Future Merit Award in 2008 for
this project, a 14km section of a strategic and
scenic national road through South Africa's
garden route and the last section of the N2 to
be upgraded to toll road standards. A 4km
section passes through indigenous forest, with
associated environmental challenges. The
design called for vertical reinforced earth walls
at the high fills and a retaining system at the
deep cuts to minimise the impact of the road on
the forest. A massive Yellowwood tree became
the environmental signature of the project and
a 20m span bridge is being constructed to
protect its roots and drainage patterns.
Three new bridges and fourteen major culverts
were being constructed. The largest consisted
of four 21m spans with voided decks over the
Kruis River and 20m high. The bridge over
the Yellowwood tree is 26m long and 4m high
and was constructed with pre-cast beams. Nine
of the culverts were constructed in situ of which
three are combination access / drainage
culverts. The initial design of this project started
in September 1998 and ended in August 1999.
In 2005 and 2006 designs were refined and the
documentation and tender process took place,
while construction started in January 2007.
Gautrain Rapid Rail Link, Gauteng
The Gautrain Rapid Rail Link is a state-of-the-
art rapid rail network planned in Gauteng. The
rail connection comprises of two links, namely
a link between Tshwane (Pretoria) and
Johannesburg and a link between OR Tambo
International Airport and Sandton. Aurecon, in
consortium with Halcrow Holdings Limited, a
UK-based infrastructure consultancy with
extensive experience in segmental
construction, was appointed in May 2006 by
the Bombela Civil Joint Venture for detailed
design package 6A of the Gautrain Rapid Rail
Link.
Major design items include viaducts, retaining
structures, earthworks, geotechnical designs,
overpasses, parking areas, utilities, electrical
and mechanical items, and landscaping.
Eradication of the bucket sanitation
system for the Department of
Provincial and Local Government
A budget of R1.2 billion has been allocated for
bucket sanitation system eradication under the
municipal infrastructure grant (MIG)
programme that is coordinated by the
SOUTH AFRICA PROJECTS Department of Provincial and Local
Government (DPLG). A further R400 million
has been made available in the 2007/08
financial year for bucket eradication projects.
The Department of Water Affairs (DWAF) is the
sector department responsible for water and
sanitation, while DPLG is the sector
department responsible for oversight of local
government. Municipalities are responsible for
delivering services including provision of
sanitation and are tasked with delivering
sanitation in place of the bucket system. Many
of the municipalities, however, are experiencing
serious capacity constraints and other systemic
blockages to delivering sanitation services. The
DWAF together with DPLG and the 56
municipalities involved have determined the
current backlogs within the affected
municipalities, the status of delivery and the
constraints to delivery. The constraints have
resulted in a slower rate of progress towards
meeting the stated goals than anticipated.
The intention of this project is to deploy experts
in the field of water and sanitation to provide
hands-on technical assistance to facilitate the
eradication of the bucket sanitation systems as
stipulated in the government's agenda. This is
in line with the DPLG's mandate of giving
support to municipalities in an effort to improve
and strengthen their service delivery. It is
envisaged that the benefits to accrue from this
project will eventually ensure seamless
provision of services in a sustainable and
accelerated manner.
Mokolo Crocodile River (west) water
augmentation project: technical
module
The Mokolo Crocodile River (west) water
augmentation scheme will provide water to
strategic users in the Lephalale area, such as
Sasol, Eskom and various coal mines. The
client had a need to conduct a feasibility study
to determine the best option for transferring
water from the Crocodile River to the growth
hot spots around Lephalale, 130km to the
north. The objective of this feasibility study was
thus to determine the optimum solution for the
timely water supply of the required quantities of
water to the various proposed developments of
the coalfields in the Lephalale area. The
purpose of the technical module was to perform
the technical analysis associated with this
project and to formulate clear
recommendations on how to achieve the
above.
Based on the existing water supply
infrastructure within the Mokolo River
catchment, the current available water and
water use is in balance. Hence no spare
capacity exists to sustain the anticipated future
economic development of the area. The
development of, inter alia, new power stations
is of high strategic importance with tight time
frames. The timely completion of this water
augmentation project is therefore not
negotiable.
Aurecon's role in the project included the
project management and coordination of the
team; large diameter pipeline design;
geotechnical investigations; confirmation of
user water requirements; risk assessment and
the drafting of a mitigating plan; considering
international obligations in terms of
international water courses and reporting.
Other firms are responsible for the design of
dams, weir and pump stations, topographical
surveys and the management of river
abstraction.
SOUTH AFRICA PROJECTS Design and construction
supervision for Berg River Dam and
supplement scheme including gated
outlet works, spillway, river
abstraction works, pump stations
and pipelines
The Berg Water Project will augment the water
supply of the Western Cape region and
specifically that of the City of Cape Town. The
brief involved a dam type selection study, in
which clay core rockfill, composite RCC
gravity/clay core rockfill and concrete faced
rockfill dams were evaluated.
The outlet works comprised a dual wet and dry
well multi-level intake tower 63m high with a
5.5m diameter concrete outlet conduit. One of
the features of the outlet works will be their
ability to mimic the periodic natural floods that
are necessary to mitigate the impact on the
ecology and geomorphology in and around the
river. It is possible to cater for a flood up to
200m3/s, which will be released through the
outlet works over a similar period to the natural
occurring floods. The releases will take place
through multi-level selector gates, an isolating
gate (hydraulically operated bonneted slide
gate) and a flow control gate (hydraulically
operated radial gate).
The spillway comprises a 40m long side
channel with splitters and an aeration gallery, a
discharge chute and deflector bucket and an
18m deep unlined plunge pool. The maximum
discharge capacity is 740m3/s. The plunge pool
will also be used as energy dissipater for the
flood releases from the outlet works. Model
studies were undertaken of both the spillway
and the outlet works.
The supplement scheme comprises an
abstraction works on the Berg River 10km
downstream of the dam, two pump stations
with capacities of 6 and 4m3/s respectively and
two steel pipelines of 1 500mm diameter with a
total length of 12.4km. The abstraction works
includes a series of sediment traps that can be
hydraulically flushed to replenish deposited
sand, gravel and boulders to downstream river
reaches.
Vaal River Eastern Sub-system
Augmentation Project (VRESAP)
The Vaal River Eastern Sub-system
Augmentation Project is an emergency water
transfer scheme. Water is abstracted from the
Vaal Dam and pumped to the Knoppiesfontein
division structure over a distance of 115km.
From the division structure the water gravitates
to the Bosjesspruit and Trichardsfontein Dams
near Secunda. The primary bulk consumers
served by the project are Eskom and Sasol.
The project has a design capacity of 5,40 m3/s
and essentially comprises the following:
An abstraction works in the Vaal Dam and
a low lift pump station, equipped with six
pumps (4 duty, 2 standby) of 700kW. The
flow of 5,40 m3/s is transferred through a
total head of 29m to a balancing dam and
desilting works upstream of a high lift
pump station.
A high lift pump station, equipped with four
sets of two pumps per set (3 duty, 1
standby). The two pumps comprise
1.3MW and 7MW. The pump station
transfers the flow of 5,40 m3/s through a
static head of 160m and a total head of
350m to the Knoppiesfontein division
structure.
A single 1900mm diameter rising main
over a distance of 115km. The rising main
comprises a combination of stiffened and
plain steel pipe of grades X42 and X52
SOUTH AFRICA PROJECTS steel and with wall thicknesses between 9
and 20mm. The pipeline is epoxy lined
with a bitumen fibreglass wrapping.
A 10M surge tank to control dynamic
transients, a concrete division structure at
Knoppiesfontein, cathodic protection of
the pipeline, a number of road and rail
crossings and various pipeline
appurtenances.
Environmental Management Act, as well as the
provisions of the generation licenses issued to
the licensees by the Regulator.
The framework was developed in close
consultation with both the licensees and
NERSA, and was submitted to NERSAs
electricity sub-committee for approval in August
2008.

Development of a compliance The second phase involved the technical and

monitoring framework and business assessments and site visits to
conducting technical audits of measure compliance against the compliance
licensed electricity generators in monitoring framework. A series of workshops
South Africa, 2008 were held with the generator licensees to
review the business processes across the six
Aurecon, in association with EirGrid PLC,
dimensions of the CMF. Site visits to 12 power
Shanahan Engineering and Enzani
stations were undertaken to verify the
Technologies, was appointed by the National
processes and confirm compliance.
Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) to
undertake the development of a compliance
Once all the stations were audited, all
monitoring framework and conduct technical
information gathered by the assessments and
audits of licensed electricity generators in
site visits were compiled into a report for
South Africa. The development of the
submission to the National Energy Regulator.
compliance monitoring framework (CMF) is
Aurecon was tasked with asset and project
envisaged as a tool to be used by NERSA in
management, technical audits and the transfer
future assessments of power stations to
of skills and training.
measure levels of compliance with the Grid
Code and other statutory documents. The CMF
is also designed to bring to light any areas of
focus which may need to be included in the
current Grid Code, or clauses in the Grid Code
which may be redundant. In addition, the CMF
makes provision for future legislation to be
included. The technical audits, utilising the
CMF, will provide the Energy Regulator with a
broad overview of the current status of selected
power stations in terms of their compliance
across various dimensions, which would greatly
assist NERSA in assessing current capacity,
maintenance and refurbishment needs and
planning for the short, medium and long-term.
The project was divided into three phases:
inception, analysis and reporting.

The first phase dealt with the development of

a compliance monitoring framework which can
be used to measure a licensed generators
compliance to various legislative and statutory
documents, including the Grid Code, the
Transmission Code, the National Occupational
Health and Safety Act and National
AFRICA PROJECTS Mmamabula energy project,
Botswana
The village of Mmamabula is located some
135km north-east of Gabarone on the A1
national road. The Mmamabula Coal Fields lie
roughly east-west between the Mmamabula
village and the international border with South
Africa. The coal fields are an extension of the
Waterberg coal field in South Africa and are
host to Kumba's Grootegeluk 16Mtpa coal mine
and Eskom's 4 000MW Matimba Power
Station.
Between August and October 2006, Aurecon
conducted the bankable feasibility study and
geotechnical investigation for the proposed
coal-fired power plant. The client is now in the
process of establishing a power plant and coal
mine, with both the mine and the power plant to
be constructed on an engineering, procurement
and construction (EPC) basis. The purpose of
the project is to define the scope of all
infrastructure in support of the EPC works and
obtain contracts for the construction of these
works. Subsequent to the design reviews
having been completed, Aurecon was
appointed to carry out some limited design
work in order to finalise the contract
documentation.
The work comprised the upgrading and
construction of roads, a railway line and airfield,
the design and construction of a new
residential village including 1 079 new housing
units and a clinic, guest house and offices, the
installation of water supply services including
the commissioning of boreholes, water
treatment works, reservoirs and pipe work and
the construction of a waste dump and fencing.
Services for the project entailed programme
management, technical reviews, contract
documentation and design services.
Accra Mall, Ghana
Spearheading the new retail trend in the
Ghanaian capital, Accra, is the construction of
the new 20 000m Accra Mall, the countrys first
modern shopping centre. The mall, which
opened its doors in April 2007, is Ghanas
largest construction project to date and is one
of the largest and most modern malls in West
Africa.
Aurecon was appointed as structural and civil
engineers for the project and responsibilities
included the design for mass earthworks,
external bulk services and all access roads and
parking areas.
The mall accommodates two South African
retailers, Shoprite Checkers and Game. It was
designed by architects Bentel Associates
International (BAI) and the developers were
South African based. CDC Capital Partners, in
association with local Ghanaian partner, Inter
City Hotels.
The mall, with 19 700m lettable area,
accommodates retail, food and service outlets
ranging in size between 60m and 800m
(excluding the anchors) and a 800 space car
park. The designs incorporated traditional
internal mall circulation with several interesting
vistas onto the dynamic food court, open
skylights and modern flush plastered ceiling
and tiled floors. State-of-the-art air
conditioning, fire protection systems and
security ensures that this centre is world-class.
A best practice approach has been utilised in
all aspects of the design. Although the bulk of
the technical documentation was done in South
Africa by consultants, the client insisted that
each consultant has a Joint Venture partner in
Ghana who was responsible for on-site
conditions.
Challenges on the project were massive.
Whenever possible, the architects have tried to
utilise local building materials, technology and
suppliers, but the bulk of materials had to be
imported from afar as Egypt, Italy and South
Africa. Finding qualified and experienced
contractors also took some effort. Another
challenge was the fact that the mall is located
AFRICA PROJECTS in a seismic area and as such engineers have
had to ensure that the detailed design
encompassed all earthquake zone
requirements. Maintenance is an important
concern and all mechanical and electrical
installations were designed to be as energy
and maintenance efficient as possible.
Nova Vida development, Angola
The project, valued at approximately $80
million, involved the design and construction of
1 600 flats (mostly four-storey buildings with
four 3-bedroom flats per floor), 500 3-bedroom
houses as well as total infrastructure, and 300
4-bedroom houses for the Ministry of Public
Works, Angola. Group Five Housing and
Projects completed the design and construction
of the buildings, using their Goldflex 800
Precast Housing System.
Aurecon's role entailed the provision of a
contract management and construction
monitoring service to the Ministry, and to
supply resident engineers. Aurecon was also
responsible for doing the design review, as well
as some design work including a reservoir,
water tower and landscaping and infrastructure
designs for Group Five. This included roads
and stormwater, water, sanitation, and
electricity. The water and sanitation design
services entailed designing approximately
30km of sewers, a 2.1M treatment works, a
sewage pump station, approximately 22km of
water pipes and a clear water pump station as
part of the water reticulation network.
Toyota Benfica 3S Showroom and
Viana Logistics Centre, Angola
With the rapid economic growth Angola has
experienced during the last few years, the
wealth of its citizens has also increased.
Toyota experienced an increase in its car sales
and in order to cater for this increase in
demand, Toyota decided to expand its
business in Angola. The first two projects
involved a new car showroom and workshop (in
Luanda-Sul) and a logistical centre (in Viana)
where new imported cars are received,
prepared and dispatched to the showrooms.
This facility also has a spare parts warehouse.
Both projects involved the development of a
master plan and the determination of the
design requirements. Once the master plans
have been finalised and approved, the concept
design stage commenced. The client followed
the design process carefully to ensure that
these facilities would not only comply with their
expectations, but also to the international
requirements of the mother company in Japan.
Drawings and descriptive reports were
prepared and submitted for building licenses at
the local authority. The detailed design stage
followed the concept design stage. The
projects were then put out on tender.
Benfica 3S Showroom: This facility consists of
a showroom (sales of new cars), spare parts
and service (workshop) section. Much
emphasis was placed on the display of new
vehicles and attention to customer needs.
Ample parking space was also provided for
customer cars. The facility is also designed to
handle different types of rubbish for recycling.
Wash water is also recycled for re-use. The
total building floor area is 12934 m2.
Viana Logistics Centre: This facility receives all
new imported cars for sale in Angola. The
facility consists of two parts, viz. Pre-delivery
inspection (PDI) and spare parts warehouse.
The PDI section has a 750 vehicle parking
area, administration offices, ablutions, canteen
and locker rooms, PDI stalls and utility
buildings. The spare parts warehouse is
AFRICA PROJECTS 5000m2 large with a 500m2 office area on a
mezzanine level. The whole facility is located
on a 40 000m2 stand.
Aurecon was responsible for the project
management and engineering design, while an
external architect firm was sub-contracted for
the architectural design.
Feasibility study update and bidding
document preparation for the 225kV
interconnection transmission lines
between Ghana and Burkino Faso
This project included updating of the feasibility
study, the elaboration of a preliminary project at
the level of the feasibility, the preparation of
tender documents for the supply and laying of
transmission lines and related substations, in
the framework of the 225kV interconnection
between Bolgatanga and Ouagadougou.
Aurecon is responsible for the primary plant
portions of the two substations on either side of
the 225kV interconnector transmission line.
Services provided by Aurecon included
updating the client's substation technical
requirements by means of workshops with the
client and corresponding utilities. Services also
entailed conducting preliminary project studies,
compiling a conceptual design proposal report
of the substation layouts, and assisting the
client with tender adjudication.
Moatize Coal Project, Tete Province,
Mozambique, 2008
Some of the worlds richest coal deposits are
located at Moatize in the Tete Province of
Mozambique. Vale mining company holds the
concession to exploit this resource over the
next few decades. The current project was for
the establishment of the first phase of the mine
with anticipated production volumes of 12
million tons of coal per year, both for coking
and thermal coal.
The project entailed a major investment in the
region, and also required the upgrading of
other infrastructure in the area such as rail and
port facilities at Beira, which will have broader
benefits for the region.
The project comprised the establishment of
mine infrastructure, including coal processing
facilities, maintenance facilities, administration
facilities, conveyors, bulk water and electrical
supply, new access roads, water treatment and
rail loading facilities. Aurecons involvement
consisted of the development of a new
conceptual design for the mine to improve on
and optimise the current layout, followed by
detailed design of the mine infrastructure
components. The project was done in
association with numerous sub-consultants in
terms of rail design, bulk water and waste
disposal, architects and materials handling, but
Aurecon was responsible for the project
management, conceptual and detailed design
and geotechnical investigations. The value of
services was R70 590 000.
Income Generating Public Works
Programme: Technical Assistance to
the Programme Management Unit,
Malawi
The overall objective of the Income Generating
Public Works Programme (IGPWP) is to
contribute to the Malawi Government's
objective of poverty reduction in line with the
Malawi Growth and Development Strategy
(MGDS). The project purpose is to enhance the
socio-economic situation of the rural/peri-urban
poor and to assist them to promote sustainable
livelihoods. This will be achieved through
improving accessibility, infrastructure and
promotion of productive activities by creating
linkages to other economic activities. IGPWP is
using labour intensive approaches to
implement interventions in roads, forestry and
irrigation. The following thematic or
crosscutting issues are also being addressed:
HIV and AIDS, gender, environment and
institutional development. The programme is
also enhancing the capacities of the District
Assemblies (DA) in management of public
works projects.
The implementation of interventions under the
IGPWP builds on the lessons and
achievements of the predecessor programmes,
the GoM/EU PWP and the Multi Annual Food
Security Programme (MAFSP), both managed
AFRICA PROJECTS by Aurecon, which used a similar approach. In
addition, people affected by and infected with
HIV and AIDS are also benefiting from the
interventions to be implemented through their
guardians participating in this programme. A
major emphasis of the IGPWP is to provide a
link between income generation and productive
activities within the communities through
practical and sustainable approaches.
Aurecon mainly provides programme, project
and contractual management and technical
assistance while the associated partner,
Cardno-Agrisystems, provides financial
management assistance.
Feasibility studies, design,
preparation of tender documents,
adjudication of tenders and
construction supervision of the
Matala - Menongue Road (350km),
Angola
The contract involves the reconstruction of the
existing 150km road between Matala and
Kuvango, and the construction of a new road of
200km between Kuvango and Menongue. The
surfaced road is 8 metres wide and will consist
of 150mm sub-base, 150mm stone base
course and a double seal surface treatment. As
part of this assignment, 28 bridges will be
rehabilitated or reconstructed. The total length
of this road is 350km. The estimated
completion date of the project is 2009 and the
value of services is R96 250 000.
Detailed design, preparation of
tender documents, adjudication of
tenders and construction
supervision for the upgrading of
Ucua - Pangu Aluquem Road
(45.2km), Mobile - Qiubaxe - Mula
Atuma Road (57km) and Quibaxe -
Pango Alquem Road (41.7km),
Angola
This contract involves the design, supervision
and contract administration to upgrade three
sections of low standard gravel roads to 7m
wide bitumen surface, all weather roads. The
road transverse swamp areas as well as
mountainous terrain and innovative designs
were implemented to optimise existing
infrastructure and remain within a fixed budget.
The value of services is R52 560 000.
The total length of the road is 120km and the
three sections of road include:
Ucua to Pangu Aluquem - 45.2km
Mobile to Quibaxe to Bula Atuma 57.0km
Quibaxe to Pango Aluquem 41.7km
KOV de-watering project,
Democratic Republic of Congo
The project involved the design of a dewatering
and desilting system to dewater and desilt the
KOV pit, procurement of all the equipment and
services, supervision of the installation of the
equipment and the final testing and
commissioning up to handover to the client.
The system consisted of floating pump stations
on the water and a set of booster pumps that
carries a concentration of 5% silt in water to a
decanting dam where the silt is settled out of
the water and the clean water decanted into the
nearby river. The project also involved the
design of a clean borehole water management
system, the procurement of all the equipment
and services, the supervision of the installation
of all the equipment and the final testing and
commissioning.
KOV pit is a copper and cobalt open pit mine in
the Kolwezi in the DRC which has been out of
operation for over 10 years but with one of the
richest and highest grades of copper
concentrate. DCP has decided to reopen and
continue to operate the mine. By bringing this
mine back into operation, the local community
will benefit directly with the provision of
permanent employment and indirectly with all
the other commodities that a vibrant economy
will bring.
The full scope of works included the
refurbishment of all the bulk material handling
AFRICA PROJECTS equipment which consisted of conveyor belts,
hauling trucks, a stacker with tripper car and
crushing equipment. A new concentrator was
also being built to handle the ore that will be
mined. The rest of the infrastructure like roads
and railway lines were also refurbished as well
as the electrical power supply. Aurecon was
appointed as the consulting engineers to carry
out the design, procure the equipment,
supervise the installation and test and
commission both the dewatering and desilting
system as well as the management of the
borehole water. The value of the services
provided is R140 000 000.
Supervision of the bridge across the
Cunene River at Xangongo, Angola
The bridge across the Cunene River at
Xangongo is founded on 110 800mm diameter
piles between 25 and 40 metres deep. The
deck consists of prefabricated steel decks
(fabricated in China and shipped to Angola),
that are launched across 18 columns. The final
roadway consists of a total of 1,384km precast
concrete slabs (panels). The total length of the
bridge is 880m and the total width is 11.64m
with 1.5m wide sidewalks.
Aurecon was responsible for:
Detailed pavement and materials
investigations
Engineering surveys
Feasibility studies
Rehabilitation pavement designs
Bridge condition assessments
Geometric design
Preparation of tender documents
Adjudication of tenders
Construction supervision
Feasibility studies, environmental
impact assessment (EIA), social
impact assessment (SIA), detailed
design and preparation of tender
documents for the phased
rehabilitation of about 7 000km of
rural roads, Sudan
More than four decades of conflict in Sudan led
to widespread human suffering and massive
displacement of people. Of particular
significance is the lack of transport
infrastructure development, the depletion of
skilled manpower and the disappearance of
formal governmental structures. With the return
of peace, various government structures are
being established along with the creation of
new public institutions, which are now
beginning to develop their capacity and
introducing policies, plans, programmes and
related systems, together with procedures for
the management of the transport sector.
This project is part of the Sudan Emergency
Transport and Infrastructure Development
Plan. The overall objectives of the assignment
are to identify, verify and establish the existing
rural roads network in Southern Sudan, and
prepare a programme to improve access and
ensure the maintenance of about 7 000km of
prioritised rural feeder roads linking critical
communities and social service centres,
production areas and markets.
The exercise will also serve to complete critical
links to the rest of the trunk and secondary
network, reduce isolation and promote social
integration and resumption of economic
activity.
Aurecon, the lead consultant, supported by
BKS as sub-consultant, will be responsible for
the rehabilitation / re-establishment of the
entire rural network over a period of five years.
The proposed road improvements are expected
to cover about 7 000km of priority rural roads
spread over Southern Sudan, which includes
about 3 000km in the Upper Nile, Jonglei,
Eastern and Central Equatoria states. The
upgrading of the roads also comprise
approximately 1 000km in Western Equatoria,
together with about 3 000km in Northern and
Western Bar el-Ghazal, Warrap, Unity and
Lake states.
AFRICA PROJECTS Electrical engineering
HVAC services
Wet services
Fire Services and Gas supply

The offered services will include road inventory

and mapping, a road condition survey, and
environmental and social impacts
assessments. Additionally, scope and cost of
improvement works will be provided, together
with prioritisation of roads for rehabilitation. A
development plan and cost estimates, and
improvement packages for conventional or
labour-based works will be prepared.
Moreover, tender documents, a strategy and
implementation plan for national programme,
and maintenance manuals and tender
documents should also be arranged.
BKS will be responsible for about a third of the
work. Through implementation of study
recommendations, the government will be able
to develop and promote the use of labour-
based road works methods in road
construction, especially rural roads.
Recommendations will provide the basis for
government to seek development assistance
from various donors and financing from private
developers. The project is due for completion in
August 2009 and is worth R 22 200 000.

Blue Ocean Park Resort, Mauritius

Aurecon was appointed to complete the full
complement of engineering services design for
this new development in Balaclava Bay by
Mirage Leisure & Development on the north-
western shore of Mauritius. The resort
comprised a 193 key, five-star leisure
development with sixteen three-storey room
blocks, two large pools, a private spa and kids
club complemented with restaurant and
conference facilities. The total built area is
about 12 500m on a site of some 67 000m
located in Balaclava Bay on the north-western
shore of Mauritius.
Aurecons services included the following:
Structural design
Civil services design
Multi-disciplinary services and
projects
BUILDINGS Aurecon, since its inception over half a century
ago, has been a major player in the building
industry. Building and industrial projects, and
later building services, have been the
cornerstones upon which the growth and
prosperity of the firm has been built. We
render the following services with regard to
buildings: managing, planning, designing and
construction monitoring of various building
facilities. Substantial investments have been
made by the firm in the development of its
building professionals, technical and quality
systems, and service standards. Aurecons
objective is to provide a commercially-
orientated and innovative service to all our
clients in the building industry.
The consultant of choice for discerning
clients across the globe.
Committed to service excellence, the Aurecon
Building Projects team is often the consultant of
choice for discerning clients across the globe.
Not only does the team have the experience
and know-how to ensure the success of
projects, but they are also capable of
responding to contingencies timeously and
effectively.
The teams past successes encompass
structural designs and specifications for an
array of projects ranging from high-rise
corporate headquarters and major retail
centres through to hospitals and golfing
estates. Considerable attention is paid to
putting innovative, cost-effective systems in
place, while adherence to the highest norms
and standards is strictly enforced.
ADDED VALUE
The Aurecon Industrial Projects teams first
priority is to ensure project viability. For this
reason, every effort is made to deliver on time
and within budget, while constantly enforcing
quality standards of the highest order. The
engineering solutions offered are not only
economically sound, but are devised
particularly with long-term durability and ease
of execution in mind.
AREAS OF SPECIALISATION
Office developments
Full project range from speculative office
park developments and office blocks
through to high-rise corporate
headquarters
All structural materials - reinforced and
pre-stressed concrete, composite
structural steel and concrete systems,
structural steel work, timber and
aluminium, as well as load-bearing
masonry.
Retail developments
Leading-edge technology and innovative
design solutions have earned the Aurecon
Building Projects team a place amongst
the front-runners in this competitive field.
BUILDINGS Leisure developments
Recent developments include hotels,
resorts, casinos, theatres and golf estates.
Respected by developers across the
board for cost-effective designs and the
ability to meet the demands of fast-track
construction programmes.
Industrial Developments
The full scope of the projects in
Manufacturing, Storage or Process
engineering is provided.
Warehouses, Factories, Industrial Plants
and facilities for the food industry have
been designed and constructed with strict
adherence to the highest standards
utilising both materials and technology to
the clients best advantage.
Airport Facilities
Includes such diverse projects as
hangars, airside corridors and loading
bridges, through to terminal buildings.
Health Facilities
Includes clinics, health centres, rural and
urban hospitals, as well as nursing
colleges.
Educational facilities
Includes schools, colleges, universities
and hostels.
Facade Engineering
Provided this service on a number of
landmark buildings and projects,
employing a wide range of cladding
systems in South Africa and abroad.
Designs are based on the most
economical solution possible under the
specified design loads, with strict
adherence to codified guidance and best
practice procedures.
Parkades
Includes parking layout, control systems,
conversion of existing buildings into car
parks and planning of public transport
loading facilities
SPECIALISED SUPPORT
SERVICES
Restoration and maintenance
Provides high-performance, cost-effective
design solutions to suit all types of building
fabric and envelopes.
Structural dynamics
A comprehensive knowledge base of design
criteria for various applications and conditions
ensures expert advice on vibration limits
Fully capable of conducting seismic evaluations
on concrete and steel structures, minimising
vibration under operating conditions and
analysing load impact on structures.
Protective structures
Hardened or security structures capable of
protecting both people and goods from the full
effects of weapons and/or intruders are
designed with the aid of advanced structural
design software.
RELATED SERVICES
In-house professionals further complement the
Aurecon Building Projects team by offering
specialist services in the following:
Civil Engineering:
The Civil Engineering experts
specialise in the design of Water
Supply and Purification Systems,
pumping stations, pipelines and
reservoirs. This division also has
expertise in the following areas:
Drainage and Flood alleviation
Canals and waterways
Harbour and Coastal engineering
Irrigation Systems
Traffic studies and Transportation
planning
Geotechnical investigations
Roads, parking and stormwater designs
Building and site wet services design
Fire safety design
Environmental impact assessments
Facilities maintenance management
Land Information and GIS systems
Quantity Surveying
BUILDINGS REACHING NEW HEIGHTS
Aurecon appreciates the complexities often
associated with tall building engineering and
clients financial objectives. As an international,
multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy,
Aurecon has a breadth and depth of
experience and expertise from which it can
draw to meet demanding programmes and
overcome severe site constraints.
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
The structural engineering of tall buildings
requires extensive experience and expertise in
occupancy comfort, wind engineering, wind
testing and sway performance particularly
when the height and slenderness of a building
increases.
architectural design team. Our lighting
specialists have an extensive knowledge of
lighting products, their functions, limitations and
cost structures, and bring considerable value to
the building functions and appearance of
external spaces.
Aurecon can provide advice on:
Fitting selection
Lamp selection
Colour rendering
Direct versus indirect lighting
Concealing of luminaires
Use of colour
Active lighting and lighting control
Budget costs

A thorough knowledge and understanding of

efficient floor systems and cost-effective
basement solutions is also necessary if the
right solution is to be found early. Through
specialist wind engineering and dynamic
analysis Aurecon is able to avoid the
unnecessary use of dampers, excessive shear
walls, the addition of extra mass and
strengthening in the core.

Specialist skills include:

Dynamic analysis and performance
assessment
Seismic analysis and design
Briefing for and interpretation of wind
tunnel testing
Wind load analysis and design
Structural steelwork
Composite structure
Concrete structure
Floor superstructure analysis and design
Column axial shortening analysis
Foundation analysis and design
Temporary and permanent site retention

AN UNDERSTANDING OF
LIGHTING DESIGN
Lighting is an integral part of any space. It is
light that brings architecture to life. Aurecon
provides imaginative and creative lighting
solutions working in conjunction with the
BUILDING SERVICES The Building Services Engineering section of
Aurecon offers a complete service from
inception to operation in conjunction with a
wide range of related skills available in the
other Aurecon divisions. The services provided
are diverse and range from conceptual
planning and feasibility studies to design,
documentation, implementation and inspection
of building services related to all types of
commercial, industrial and residential buildings.
Aurecon is in touch with the latest development
and technology utilised in the building services
field. Through regional offices in Africa, the
Middle East, Europe and South East Asia,
Aurecon is able to undertake any project,
irrespective of geographic location or
magnitude. The Building Services Engineering
section provides a wide range of services by
utilising their expertise gained over a period of
more than thirty years in this field. The core
fields of these services are:
Wet Services and Drainage
Water supply, treatment and storage
systems
Hot and cold water distribution systems
Pump systems for domestic water,
sewage, subsoil and fire protection
applications
Domestic hot water generating plants
utilising a wide range of energy sources
Steam generation and distribution
systems
Sanitary drainage and disposal systems
Rainwater and stormwater drainage
systems including certified designer for
the Pluvia technology
Subsoil drainage systems
Electronic Services
Voice and data networks
Building management systems
Audio and music systems
Boardroom and multimedia installations
Heating, Ventilation and Air
Conditioning
Central heating, ventilation and air
conditioning systems
Fire Engineering
Rational fire design and protection
measures
Automatic fire extinguishing installations,
including automatic sprinklers, foam and
gas extinguishing systems
Conventional fire protection installations,
including fire hydrants, fire hose reels and
hand-held fire extinguishers
Fire and smoke detection, alarm
notification and evacuation systems
Smoke control installations
Fire signage design, including emergency
evacuation signage and signage for fire
protection equipment
Booster pump and water storage
installations for fire protection applications
Protection and Security
Perimeter protection
Access control
CCTV surveillance and recording
Access control
Other fields of specialisation
UPS systems; static and rotary
Diesel driven standby power systems
Specialised lightning and surge protection
Gas distribution systems
Medical gas systems
Compressed air generation and
distribution systems
Kitchen and laundry equipment
Lifts and escalators
Statutory and safety audits
Upgrading and restoration of existing
building services
Technical Investigations
Facilities management
Compilation of maintenance contracts with
service level agreements
Energy efficiency audits
Hot water and steam plants feasibility
studies - evaluating alternative energy
sources.
MUNICIPAL SERVICES Aurecon has been involved for over 50 years in
the planning, design and construction
supervision for the complete municipal and
infrastructure services of major residential
townships, commercial developments, leisure
developments, golf and lifestyle estates and
sports complexes. The firm assisted various
clients with projects - from inception, planning,
negotiations, approval up to completion and
maintenance. In addition to the normal
infrastructure engineering aspects, Aurecon
also provides extensive project management
budget reporting and cost reconciliation
services. Aurecon provides the full range of
support services including the processing of
satellite imagery, geotechnical investigations
and analyses, topographical surveying, traffic
impact studies, assessment and analyses,
structural, electrical and mechanical design,
economic and financial analyses and feasibility
studies.
Project development from inception to
operation, irrespective of scope or nature,
consists of the following phases:
Assessment of demand and requirement
from client
Concept
Feasibility study
Planning
Design
Construction
Operation
Maintenance
PRE-DEVELOPMENT
SERVICES
Aurecon provides extensive support towards
township establishment and conceptual
planning of new developments. Our planning
skills span the full spectrum of the municipal
environment. In particular, the following
services are provided:
Strategic Master planning on municipal,
provincial and national level.
Feasibility studies
Assistance and Engineering Support
towards township and development rights
establishment
Negotiations and liaison with local
authorities
Database generated cost studies
Arrangements and interpretation of
topographical surveys
Establishment of services agreements
Water resource planning
DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
Investigations and Studies
Geotechnical an geohydrological
investigations and reports
Environmental Impact Assessments and
Management Plans
Transport planning, Traffic studies and
Reports
Certification of flood lines
Municipal Infrastructure Services reports
Engineering design for:
Mass earthworks
Bulk water supply, water treatment and
storage (including dams and reservoirs)
Sewage treatment facilities and effluent
control
Solid waste disposal facilities
Sewer drainage and sewer reticulation
Gas reticulation systems
Water supply and reticulation
Stormwater drainage systems and
reticulation networks
Roads, access routes, intersections,
parking areas and all traffic network
aspects
Electrical supply and reticulation systems
Pumps and pump stations
Irrigation systems
Security and Electronic/Data networks
Civil and building structures
Sports fields and recreation areas
Public transport facilities
MUNICIPAL SERVICES Project Management and related
services
Quality control
Construction supervision and site
inspections
Design reviews and approval of designs
and drawings with local authorities
Provision of Contract and Tender
documentation
Contract administration, implementation
and management
Financial auditing and Budget reporting
Coordination of external link services
installation

POST-DEVELOPMENT
SERVICES:
Operations and Maintenance
Management of facilities
Provision of Operation manuals
Completion reports and reconciliation
ROADS Aurecon is able to provide expert professional
services in road design and design review to
any client. Aurecon has been intimately
involved in the road sector planning and design
sphere since its establishment in 1951. The
companys experience ranges from the
emergency opening of roads in rural
Mozambique to the upgrading of a fully
operational, self-funding, multi-lane highway in
Malaysia.
Over the years, the company has received
numerous awards for the design of roads, such
as National Route 2 (toll road) near Plettenberg
Bay in South Africa, the Northern Access Road
to Katse Dam in Lesotho, and the rehabilitation
of the war damaged multi-arch Pungue Bridge
in Mozambique. It has been involved in the
successful completion of major road design
projects, both in Africa, south of the Sahara
(including Ethiopia), as well as in the Middle
East and Southeast Asia.
ROAD DESIGN
Aurecon has designed and supervised more
than 12 000km of roads in South Africa alone.
The company has experience in working with
survey subcontractors and has the most up-to-
date road design software to ensure optimal
horizontal and vertical alignment within the
standards set for the road being designed.
Aurecons experience in designing the various
standards of road enables it to tailor its designs
to match exactly the needs of each situation.
In addition to geometric design, Aurecon
conduct materials surveys and deliver
comprehensive bridge designs in line with
current and appropriate specifications.
Aurecons extensive design experience also
places it in a unique position to undertake
Design Reviews in order to prevent problems
and claims on-site and to optimise or add value
to designs by other consultants. Aurecon
recently did the Design Review and update of
the existing design for the road between
Lubango and Ondjiva, Angola (design of
375km of road, and design of bridge over
Kunene River).
Aurecon has gained extensive project
experience in road widening and upgrading in
varying traffic and environmental conditions,
and the firm possesses the required blend of
skills needed to address the unique challenges
posed by this type of design and construction
work. It is the companys experience, that for
this type of work, the method and particular
specification are unique and an integral part of
the design process.
To this end, Aurecon has developed tried and
tested methods and particular specifications
that are compatible with the unique
requirements of road widening and upgrading
work.
In addition, this type of work requires a blend of
geotechnical and pavement engineering
knowledge and expertise in order to achieve
harmony between the old and existing
pavement structure. Aurecon has gained
extensive experience in this aspect of
pavement design, having undertaken various
projects on difficult ground, such as:
road widening and upgrading on soft and
swamp ground (marine clays, slimes,
peat)
road widening on expansive soils
road widening and vertical realignment at
the transition between rigid structures (ie
bridge abutments and culverts) and
embankments on soft ground
road widening and upgrading in steep
mountainous terrain
Services
Road needs studies
Operational and safety assessment of
roads
Pavement evaluation and rehabilitation
design
New pavement design
Feasibility studies, route location and
basic planning
Road planning, design and construction
supervision
Special investigations such as the effects
of vehicle overloading on pavements and
the visibility of road traffic signs
ROADS Feasibility studies, site location and
detailed design of traffic control /
weighbridge centres
ROAD REHABILITATION
DESIGN
Aurecon uses a holistic approach to pavement
structural evaluation (remaining life) and
rehabilitation design. This approach is often
termed multi-criteria or multi-component
analysis. It involves assessing each structural
layer (component) of the pavement in order to
evaluate its remaining structural life. The
design life of the pavement is then based on
the weakest component. An analogy being that
a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
The required pavement evaluation and design
data collection is staged in order to minimise
cost without sacrificing reliability. This is
achieved by collecting the least expensive data
first to identify preliminary uniform behavioural
sections. These are refined as the higher level
of detail (more expensive) information is
gathered in other to define the engineering
properties and parameters for each uniform
section identified. The uniform sections are
used for evaluating remaining structural
capacity and rehabilitation design.
Aurecon is experienced in assessing the
remaining structural capacity of a pavement
structure from deflection data, DCP, and
laboratory tests, and remains in the forefront of
technological innovation through its
participation in research projects and
international conferences. Aurecon has
experience in the following in situ recycling
methods for road rehabilitation:
Cold in situ recycling of problematic
natural gravels such as weathered granite
and sands using cement and\or bitumen
emulsion stabilisation
Cold in situ recycling of granular crushed
stone bases using cement stabilisation or
bitumen/cement stabilisation
Cold in situ recycling of asphalt base
coarse materials using rejuvenators and
polymer modifiers, or rejuvenators and
cement
Hot in situ recycling of asphalt layers
using rejuvenators and polymer modifiers
Other innovative materials employed by
Aurecon in road rehabilitation projects include:
foamed bitumen emulsions
stone mastic asphalt surfacing
large aggregate asphalt base course
polymer and rubber modified crack
absorbing layers and seal coats
The use of large aggregate asphalt bases is a
fairly recent innovation and is used in heavy-
duty pavements where high shear strength is
required in the asphaltic layers.
BRIDGE DESIGN
Aurecons bridge design team has for more
than 50 years been responsible for all related
structures. The structures include major
highway interchanges as well as hydrological
and hydraulic investigations, retaining walls,
canals, low-cost drainage structures, a diversity
of: road-over-road, road-over-rail, rail-over-
road, bridges and river- and dam crossings.
Aurecon provides the full services including
feasibility studies, basic planning, detailed
design, documentation and supervision.
Services
General Bridge Engineering
Bridge Management Systems
Bridge Hydraulics and Hydrology
ROADS TUNNEL DESIGN

Aurecon provides the full range of engineering

services for investigation, design and
construction monitoring. We have been
responsible for engineering many tunnels using
a variety of techniques and machinery
including;

Immersed tube
Driven
Cut and cover
Jacked
AIRPORTS Aurecon's airport involvement spans 30 years
and encompasses all services related to airport
planning and design. Our personnel are well
acquainted with the requirements of the
International Civil Aviation Organisation
(ICAO), the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA)
and the International Air Travel Association
(IATA). We have successfully executed a
diverse range of projects including
comprehensive airports as well as individual
facilities such as runways, taxiways and
aprons, passenger and cargo terminals, aircraft
hangars, landside road systems and multi-
storey car parking facilities. We can assist
clients through all the phases of infrastructure
development from conceptual development,
through feasibility study, master planning and
detailed design, to construction supervision and
commissioning.
Services
Techno/economic/financial feasibility
studies
Environmental impact assessment
Airport master planning and facility
planning
Airport design (all facilities and all design
disciplines)
Bidding process
Construction supervision
Commissioning
Project management
Pavement engineering
Airport operations and operational
services
Support facilities and hangars
Airport ground lighting
Experience
The planning and design of the upgrading
of Livingstone Airport
The planning, design, tender and
construction supervision of Lanseria
International Airport
The planning, design, tender and
construction supervision of Kruger
Mpumalanga International Airport
New Cargo Centre at Entebbe
International Airport, Uganda
Upgrading of passenger terminal facilities
at OR Tambo International Airport, South
Africa
Freight apron extensions at OR Tambo
International Airport, South Africa
Master planning for OR Tambo
International Airport
Master plan for Windhoek International
Airport, and Eros Aerodrome, Namibia
Rehabilitation of runway at Cape Town
International Airport, South Africa
Development and construction supervision
of parallel runway and taxiway system at
OR Thambo International Airport, South
Africa
Upgrading of Ilha da Sol Airport, Cape
Verde Islands
Rural airfield development, Lesotho
Design and construction supervision of
two major air force bases, South Africa
Development and construction supervision
of several regional airports in Southern
Africa
New international terminal and multi-
storey car park at OR Tambo International
Airport

Aurecons strategic partner for coastal, ocean
HARBOURS and environmental engineering services is
Prestedge Retief, Dresner Wijnberg (PRDW).
The firm practise exclusively in the specialist
areas of port, coastal and environmental
engineering. The firm is based in Cape Town,
South Africa, from where it operates both
nationally and internationally. The partners and
senior personnel have devoted their
professional careers to the pursuit of
excellence in the field of maritime civil
engineering and are recognised internationally
as specialists in this field, reflected in the
number of awards received over the years.
The following services are provided:
Design of Coastal, Marine and Harbour
Works: Determination of environmental
loadings. Evaluation of alternative
structure types. Selection of construction
methods and materials, taking account of
environmental and service loads.
Construction costs analysis. Detailed
design, preparation of drawings and
construction specifications.
Feasibility Studies and Project
Development: Analysis of financial and
technical feasibility of development
projects
Environmental Impact Evaluations:
Integrated environmental management
studies, environmental audits, conflict
resolution and environmental
management advice
Data capture and analysis: Data on wave
conditions, coastal sediments, currents,
water quality, weather and climate are
assembled and analysed where required.
Numerical Modelling: Wave hindcasting,
refraction and diffraction analyses,
simulation of wave penetration into
harbours, surge resonance, determination
of wave forces on structures, effluence
dispersion studies, water quality analysis,
simulation of coastal sediment movements
and spatial analyses by means of
Geographic Information Systems.
Physical Modelling: Laboratory model
simulations of wave and tide conditions in
harbours and estuaries, stability of
breakwater armour units, wave interaction
with structures, wave-induced currents
and navigation and moorage studies.
Surveys: Topographical hydrograph and
geotechnical surveys as well as diving
inspections are undertaken by defining the
work required, appointing appropriate
contractors supervising the work and
interpreting the results.
Project Administration: Contract
documentation, project cost estimates,
tender evaluation and adjudication,
contract administration, project cost
control, quality control and supervision of
construction.
Project Monitoring: Monitoring completed
projects to evaluate performance and
generate data for future developments.
Installation Engineering: Planning and
design of temporary works for marine
structures and pipelines.
HARBOURS These services find application in the following:
Harbours and cargo terminals
Offshore structures
Marinas and small craft facilities
Coast rehabilitation and protection
Bench improvements
Groynes
Management of dunes and beaches
Dredging
Regional Planning
Construction planning
Ocean energy utilisation
Sea Water intakes
Long sea outfalls
Tidal swimming pools
Quarry walls and wharfs
Jetties
Promenades
Flood and floating mooring jetties
Slipways and boat ramps
Breakwaters
Offshore single point moorings
Revetments and bulkheads
Beach mining
Underwater observation platforms
Upgrading and repairing coastal structures
Sand bypassing schemes at harbours and
river mouths
ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL Since 1982, Aurecon has been providing a
wide range of professional services in power
system engineering, industrial process
engineering, building electrical and electronic
services, and energy sector advisory and
Network normalisation
management services to its clients in the
energy, mining, industrial and property sectors.
Aurecon's Energy and Industrial Consulting
Services team comprises engineers,
technicians, economists, financial analysts and
support staff with extensive experience in these
sectors.
Load studies and project design
Rural electrification planning, design and
construction management
Off-grid electricity solutions.
Data collection and auditing (consumer
and network)
Asset assessment, valuation and life cycle
planning
Energy loss management, including
system analysis (power flow, voltage drop,
fault level, protection coordination and
harmonic analysis studies), and statistical
metering
Rehabilitation planning and
implementation
Network maintenance planning.

POWER SYSTEM
ENGINEERING
Revenue management
Aurecon provides solutions across the
Assessment, design and supervision of
complete life cycle of electricity networks
installation of:
from conceptual design through to
maintenance management. Vending systems
Automatic metering systems
The Power System Engineering team provides Remote metering systems.
services in:

Master planning
Network auditing
Load flow analysis, fault level studies and
protection studies
Network analysis and network
development studies
Load forecasting
Geographic mapping of networks and
network diagrams. Power system design and
Electrification construction management
Income and affordability surveys and Transmission lines
community liaison Substations
ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL Medium and low voltage distribution
systems to urban and rural areas.
Lighting systems
Design and construction management of:
Freeway and road lighting
Area lighting
Sports field lighting.
Airfield navigational systems
Design, specification and supervision of
installation of:
Airfield lighting systems
Airfield navigational aids
Meteorological equipment
Communication equipment.
INDUSTRIAL PROCESS
ENGINEERING
Aurecon provides the full spectrum of industrial
process engineering solutions, including
professional electrical, control, and mechanical
engineering services for industrial, electricity
generation, and process plant projects. Our
clients range from the industrial, petrochemical
and mining sectors to private sector clients in
water and wastewater fields.
Service spectrum:
Conceptual design
Feasibility studies
Detailed engineering design
Project management
Commissioning
Handover
Performance testing
Evaluation of existing plant process
performance
Site testing.
Mechanical engineering services
Heating, ventilation and air conditioning
systems
Pipe and pump systems
Hydraulic systems
Specialised material handling systems
Chemical dosing systems
Hoisting equipment
Maintenance engineering
Corrosion protection systems.
Instrumentation and control services
Design and implementation of process
instrumentation and control systems in
hazardous and non-hazardous
environments.
Electrical engineering services
Industrial and process plants
Power factor correction
Special power supplies and Uninterrupted
Power Supply (UPS) systems
Lightning and surge protection.
Supervisory, Control and Data
Acquisition (SCADA) systems and
telemetry services
Design and implementation of local
process SCADA systems
Design and implementation of SCADA
systems from distributed sites by means
of telemetry
Design and implementation of stand-alone
telemetry systems for long distance
system control.
Power generation services
Assessment of existing diesel-driven
station performance
Generation planning and expansion
planning
Design of diesel-driven power station and
auxiliaries
Renewable and non-grid solutions.
BUILDING ELECTRICAL AND
ELECTRONIC SERVICES
The Building Electrical and Electronic Services
team provides electrical and electronic
ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL solutions in support of building and residential
estate design and management. Service lines
include:
Electrical Installations for Buildings
Electrical installation
Lifts and escalators
Indoor lighting and control systems
Area and security lighting
Standby power supplies
Earthing and lightning protection
Electronic Installations for Buildings
Data and voice networks
Background music and white noise
systems
Access control, and time and attendance
systems
Surge protection systems
Security systems; fire detection and CCTV
surveillance
Infrastructure Installations
Fibre optic cable networks
Cable television signal distribution
Perimeter fence systems
Video surveillance
Voice over IP systems
ENERGY SECTOR ADVISORY
AND MANAGEMENT SERVICES
The Energy Sector Advisory and Management
Services (ESAMS) team provides consulting
services and transaction advice to and on
behalf of national policy makers, private sector
investors and utilities as well as international
financial institutions. Services are offered at
the market, enterprise and project levels
related to investment, management and
institutional restructuring in the energy sector
with the aim of delivering sustainable life cycle
solutions.
Sector Reform, Policy Advice and
Market Restructuring
Sector restructuring
Privatisation and introduction of Private
Sector Participation (PSP)
Electricity utility restructuring
Electricity Enterprise Development
and Management
New enterprise development
Existing enterprise improvement
Investment Consulting and
Transaction Advice
For electricity businesses and projects,
including IPPs:
Pre-feasibility and feasibility studies
Business case development
Financial due diligence and modelling,
incorporating project finance principles
Legal due diligence
Transaction advice
Sustainable Energy Business Case
Development
Renewables solar, wind, hydropower
Energy efficiency
The Clean Development Mechanism
(CDM)
Energy Sector Research
African electricity utilities
African energy/electricity sector issues
Global trend contextualisation
ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL SPECIALISED SERVICES
In the varied field of electrical engineering, the
Electrical and Mechanical Division offers the
following services:
Monitoring, data acquisition and analyses
of electrical systems and mechanical
process parameters such as power
consumption, temperatures, flow
velocities, pressures, humidity and mass
Energy conservation and energy efficiency
research
Systems master planning
Implementation of quality assurance
management systems and auditing in
accordance with ISO 9000 standards
Operating and maintenance management
services
Project management of multi-disciplinary
projects
Renewable energy
Bioenergy
As the need to develop a clean fuel supply with
a plentiful, renewable resource evolves, new
challenges arise in producing energy that
requires innovative solutions and specialist
expertise. Many skills are needed to
successfully execute bioenergy projects and
Aurecon provides a wide range of consultancy
services for the development of renewable
energy resources including biofuels, biomass,
wind, solar and hydro. With a proven track
record and wide industry experience in
renewable energy, we have the skills to take
your projects from concept to commercial
operation.
Other renewable energy
Hydro
Our hydro capability covers all phases of the
project cycle from water resource assessment
to plant commissioning including civil, electrical
and mechanical design of facilities.
Solar energy
Solar energy is typically converted into
electricity using photovoltaic cells or solar
thermal technologies. We provide services for
photovoltaic cells that are grid connected or
part of remote area power supply systems. For
solar thermal, our expertise covers all aspects
of the systems for converting solar energy into
electricity.
Wind energy
Aurecon provides technical, environmental and
strategic services to the development phase of
wind energy projects as they are progressed to
consenting and implementation.
Every wind project starts with site selection and
assessment of suitability taking into
consideration issues such as the wind
resource, proximity to the electrical grid,
environmental impact and public acceptance.
Our services include:
Regional wind assessments
Installing and operating wind monitoring
masts
Preparing a wind resource assessment
(including the use of special modelling
tools where appropriate)
Project feasibility considering initial energy
yield prediction, grid access, outline
project costs and revenue projections
Preliminary assessment of site
geotechnical and access conditions
Preliminary environmental impact
assessment and likelihood of gaining
consent
Project formulation, including selection of
turbine layout, access routes and grid
connection point
RAILWAYS Aurecon has a proud history in the provision of
expert professional services in the many
aspects of transportation. The services we
offer cater for the various modes of transport, ie
road, air and rail. Since transportation is a
complex field that is interlinked with many
others, we make use of a highly qualified and
experienced team of engineers, regional
economists, legal experts and other associated
staff, to provide services in a variety of
functional areas.
PLANNING AND COST
MODELLING
Route planning inclusive of cadastral, land
and engineering surveys.
Economic comparative studies
investigating rail to other transportation
systems.
Optimising Train Operations.
Infrastructure and System Design.
Risk Assessments and Safety Audits.
Feasibility studies.
Basic planning layout designs
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
In the design and construction of new railway
tracks, we offer the following services:
Geometric and layout design.
Mechanical, electrification and signalling
systems.
Granular layer thickness design (ballast,
subballast and prepared subgrade
thickness requirements).
Earthworks design and specifications.
Track transition designs for bridges,
tunnels and special trackwork.
Development of ballast/subballast
specifications.
Drainage designs including hydrological
and hydraulic studies, subsurface
drainage designs, surface drainage
designs, and track prism drainage
designs.
Design of Station and Marshalling Yards
including substations
Compilation of works contracts.
Supervision of construction.
MAINTENANCE, UPGRADING
AND PERFORMANCE
IMPROVEMENT
Aurecon offers a unique service line in railroad
maintenance, upgrading and performance
improvement of existing tracks. The first step
to implementing a rail maintenance
management system is by performing a proper
rail asset inventory and condition assessment
of all rail assets. Maintenance are then planned
and focussed and life cycle costing is
calculated. A proper rail maintenance
management system can potentially provide
the following benefits:
Follow a preventative maintenance mode
rather than a corrective one.
Prevents crisis management, derailments
and delays in production.
Target maintenance operations and
resources only to areas where they are
needed.
Identify areas of repeated repair and apply
cost reducing long-term solutions to them.
Increase asset life without spending
additional capital.
UNDERGROUND RAILWAY
ENGINEERING - MINES
Aurecon recently expanded its railway service
underground, providing the following
specialised services for the Mining Industry:
Advice on the compilation of the
Mandatory Code of Practice for
Underground Railbound Transport
Equipment (due Feb 2004)
RAILWAYS Training - Underground Railway Information and Land Solutions.
Workshops Structural engineering.
Asset Inventory, Condition Assessment
and Life Cycle Costing
Risk Assessments and Safety Audits
Planning and Cost Modelling
Quality Management (ISO 9001 and
ISO/IEC 17025 Certified)
Track Geometry Measurements
Rail Maintenance Management Systems

INVESTIGATION TECHNIQUES
Investigation techniques of existing tracks to
determine the root cause of tracks performing
poorly include:
Track geometry survey
Measure and interpret track deflection,
stiffness, and modulus.
Identify ballast and subgrade condition
using ground penetrating radar.
Assess track functional condition using
track geometry measurements.
Determine causes of ballast fouling at
specific sites.
Determine substructure properties,
drainage conditions and root cause of
problems using cross trenching.
Conduct laboratory tests for ballast,
subballast and subgrade properties.

RELATED ENGINEERING
STUDIES
Hydrological and hydraulic investigations.
Geotechnical and material investigations.
Bridge design.
Environmental management.
Health and Safety.
INDUSTRIAL The design of facilities for industry forms an the construction of super-flat floors to the most
integral part of the activities of Aurecons stringent international standards.
Commercial Development Sector. Aurecon
provides expertise with the planning, design,
specifications, cost estimates, documentation
and tendering, construction monitoring and
project management of industrial projects. The
firm is actively involved in the provision of
building services and aims at providing an
innovative commercially orientated service to
appropriate norms. Aurecons policy is to
provide excellent service to clients through
teamwork and professionalism. Clients are FACTORIES
provided with a comprehensive service to meet
their requirements. Aurecon provides expertise in the planning,
design, specifications, cost estimation,
documentation and tendering, construction
monitoring, and project management of factory
projects. Structural engineers work hand in
hand with process engineers and materials
handling experts. This ensures that any special
requirements such as strict tolerance durability,
ease of maintenance and operational
requirements are incorporated into all the
designs where required.
Expertise gained by acting as principal agent FOOD INDUSTRY
on various projects, complemented by an
industrial architectural service, streamlines the Aurecon's experience in the food industry
planning, design and supervision of industrial covers the meat industry, grain milling and
projects. This specialised knowledge ensures storage, wineries, fisheries, beverages, dairy
economical construction solutions that are products, convenience foods, and canned
tailor-made to client requirements. Many years foodstuffs. Multi-disciplinary teams that
of experience in undertaking a variety of understand food hygiene and processing are
industrial projects makes Aurecon ideally suited used to ensure the creation of facilities that
to serve the manufacturing, storage and satisfy the demanding needs of clients and
process industries. Aurecon's highly qualified maximise their long-term financial investment.
and experienced professionals apply
appropriate materials and technology to create
value for our clients, from economical
commercial developments through to
innovative, durable, process-driven facilities.

WAREHOUSES
Aurecon has extensive experience in the
storage and distribution facilities required in the
milling, printing and retail industries. Aurecon
also specialises in the design of cold storage INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
facilities and high-density storage facilities with Aurecon's expertise with regard to industrial
very narrow aisles (VNA warehouses). plants includes project management, civil and
Aurecon has designed, specified and overseen structural design, specialist structural analysis,
quantity surveying, geotechnical investigation,
INDUSTRIAL foundation engineering, and contract
administration.
INDUSTRIAL
PARKS/DEALERSHIPS
A diverse and interesting range of commercial
projects have been completed. These include
commercial industrial parks, where large
numbers of economically designed light and
medium industrial units are grouped together.
Line workshops in built-up areas for the motor
industry eg the "motorcity" concept, are
frequently designed and constructed by
Aurecons structural engineers. Other projects
include motor dealerships consisting mainly of
workshops, spares stores and covered and
open parking. As with all commercial projects,
innovative and economical designs are applied
including, "stressed skin" technology and
modular systems.
PROTECTIVE STRUCTURES
Protective structures, also called hardened or
security structures, are structures offering
protection to people, goods and other buildings
against the effects of weapons and intruders.
Common buildings and structures have a low
resistance against the high intensity effects of
artillery and vandals, and it is essential that
special attention be given to these effects when
designing a protective structure. The design of
protective assistance to a client in evaluating
the degree of protection needed. The client is
also informed of the extent of damage and
losses that can be expected. Aurecon also has
technical literature and various other sources of
information on aspects such as weapons and
their effects, types of intrusions, special
construction materials, structural systems and
the use of advanced structural analysis
software. Furthermore, Aurecon has the
experience to assist architects and other
engineering disciplines with the placing and
detailing of services and accesses, as these
elements influence the degree of protection
required. If services are not given careful
attention, then access could sometimes be
gained through these services or the protective
structure can be penetrated.
DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF
STRUCTURES AND MACHINE
FOUNDATIONS
Aurecon has performed dynamic analysis on a
wide range of structures. This includes the
determination of natural frequencies and mode
shapes as well as time-integration of a
structure subjected to time-related forces or
earth movements. The analysis of the structure
in the frequency range is done by means of
Fourier transformations, and determines the
effects of the dynamic interaction between the
earth and the structure. The dynamic response
of a structure or component may be predicted
quite accurately if the necessary information is
available. An important component of a
structural dynamic evaluation is the need to
verify the predicted response against the
design criteria, applicable standards or specific
requirements of the user. Aurecon has the
experience to compile the necessary
information for an analysis and to evaluate the
results. Typical analyses include the design of
various bases for vibrating machinery, seismic
evaluation of concrete structures, design and
evaluation of buildings to minimise vibration
caused by operating machines, analysis of
structures subject to impact loadings and
platforms supporting dynamic equipment.
WATER The water cycle is a complex system that has
been strained by the growing demand imposed
on it by the progress of society. The
sustainable management of our water
resources is an increasingly important
challenge for engineers and scientists, and
arguably requires greater focus from the
scientific community than any other natural
resource.
The water cycle consists of six stages
evaporation, condensation, precipitation,
surface runoff, infiltration and transpiration
during which water is constantly being cycled
between the atmosphere, ocean and land.
Aurecon understands all aspects of the water
cycle and is thus able to offersa complete
range of engineering and scientific services to
help clients optimise the sustainable
management of their water resources.
Aurecon offers a comprehensive range of
services in both water and sanitation. This
includes surface and groundwater
management, infrastructure provision and
water and sewage utility services. We provide
clients with professional input for all project
phases - from inception to completion in
order to assist them in meeting the challenges
they face.
models to deliver cost-effective solutions to
clients.
We understand the marketplaces increased
demand for the provision of high standards of
quality and customer service to all water
industry stakeholders. This includes local, state
and federal government and authorities and
private sector clients. We appreciate the need
for the provision of integrated, multi-disciplinary
solutions that encompass the full range of
issues that impact on business operations.
Aurecon has in-depth knowledge of the water
sector which includes industry standards,
systems and practices as well as business
operations.
We offer a complete range of
services in:
Water Resource Analysis
Surface Water Hydrology
Geo-Hydrology
Sedimentation Studies
Water Quality
Water Resources Planning &
Management
Planning and Management
Groundwater Development

Most communities in poor countries suffer from

Dams
poor water and sanitation service levels. This Yield-Reliability Analysis
can be attributed to a myriad of reasons, be it Embankment Design
lacking infrastructure, organisational Spillway Design
constraints, or community based issues. Flood Hydrology Design
Aurecon has actively addressed the needs of Dam Safety Assessment
such communities and has developed skills Dam Infrastructure
that cover the technical, social and institutional
Water Services Planning &
aspects of providing water and sanitation
Management
services.
Planning and Management
Our expertise Water Storage and Distribution
The Water and Environment Group is a well- Sewer Reticulation
established and integral part of Aurecons Water Demand and Water Loss
Management
business. We offer extensive project
management, planning, design expertise and Pumps & Pipelines
turnkey capabilities for projects of any size. Our
Hydraulics
expert team strives to combine innovative
Irrigation
thinking with constructive project delivery
Pump Design
Pipeline Design
WATER Water & Wastewater Treatment
Process Analysis and Design
Detailed Design
Performance Assessment of Existing
Works
On-site Sanitation
Desalination
Stormwater & Flood Control
Runoff Assessment
Management and Planning
Canals, Culverts and Stormwater Sewers
River Hydraulics
Coastal Engineering
Marina Design
Coastal Hydraulics
Inlet, Outlet and Protection Works Design
Construction Management
Construction Procurement
Contract Administration and Management
Solid Waste Management
Planning
Design
Management & Legal
Institutional and Support Services
Information Systems
Legal Services in Water
Asset Management
Condition and Performance Assessments
Useful Life Determination
Prioritisation of Maintenance and
Refurbishment Requirements
Estimation of Replacement and Current
Values
Asset Management Plan
 Foundation investigations for all types of
Today, Aurecon is a prominent member of the
GEOTECHNICAL geotechnical, hydrogeological and
buildings and structures
Dam site investigations
environmental fraternities. Aurecon's
Foundation design for all building and
Geotechnical and Environmental Services team
structure types for normal and problem
provides comprehensive support and services soil conditions
on a variety of civil engineering and Design of lateral soil support systems and
development projects. The team is also able to slope stability analysis
provide an independent, one-stop service to Expert opinion with regard to the impact of
external clients that require the expertise of this geological and geotechnical aspects on
specialised and experienced group of the design and construction elements of
professionals. These professionals base their engineering projects
involvement on the premise that value must be
added in the process and, to this end, state-of-
the-art methodologies and innovative
techniques and ideas are brought to bear on
the project in hand.

The geohydrological-related services provided

by Aurecon's Geotechnical and Environmental
team vary from the siting of boreholes and
The geotechnical services provided by aquifer assessments, to defining the extent and
Aurecon include all the geological and soil severity of groundwater pollution. Fields of
engineering input required for infrastructure specialisation include:
planning and development projects, to ensure
Aquifer definition and yield potential
that the design of structures is compatible with
determination
the geological conditions of the sites.
Borehole site selection, construction and
testing
Fields of specialisation include:
Hydrogeotechnical and tracer studies to
Engineering geological mapping for
detect sources and extent of groundwater
regional and township planning
pollution
Soil and geological mapping for road and
Radio and isotope chemistry of surface
the railway route location, industrial
and groundwater.
developments and the location of
construction materials
We have undertaken many investigations to
Soil profiling, core logging and
assess foundation conditions for new and
quantification of properties of natural
existing structures. Foundation systems
materials and groundwater conditions
appropriate to the soil conditions encountered
Assessment of problem soil conditions are designed to ensure the integrity of new
and hazard mapping
GEOTECHNICAL structures and compatibility with existing
structures. Design sometimes has to take into
account heavy vibrating machinery loads and
the effect of seismic events. For instance, the
finite element package PLAXIS has frequently
been used over the past four years to conduct
numerical analyses of founding problems.

Lateral stability of excavations and slope

stability investigations frequently form part of
basement designs for large buildings. Soil
nails or anchors are commonly required to
improve the stability of deep vertical basement
excavations, such as the deep vault
excavations for the Reserve Bank
headquarters in Pretoria and the new ABSA
building in Johannesburg, South Africa.
ENVIRONMENTAL Aurecon Environmental Services is an
environmental business consultancy practice.
The professional staff complement comprises a
network of various expertise in the various
fields of integrated environmental management
and planning. The expertise within the
organisation ensures that it is equipped to
comply with the current environmental
legislation as a minimum, but strives for
environmental best practice in all projects.
INTEGRATED
ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTION
This has enabled Aurecon: Environmental
Services to select through its partnering and
associations the best available expertise for the
business opportunity available in South Africa.
Internal networking within the organisation has
established a large, competent and well-
experienced consultancy to address very
specific environmental issues and solutions.
This unconventional corporate structure allows
the firm to snag non-traditional projects.
FIELDS OF SPECIALISATION
The Environmental Services Group has gained
extensive knowledge and experience during
the past few years in a suite of environmental
consulting fields. This is due to direct
involvement in a variety of projects. These
fields include:
Environmental Impact Assessments
Environmental Management Frameworks
(EMFs)
Environmental and Ecological Planning
Environmental Auditing and Monitoring
Local Authority Environmental Policy
Development
Landscape Design and Planning
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
MANAGEMENT
AES keeps abreast of current legislative
requirements and approvals for sustainable
development accord with government policies
and legislation. Service fields include:
Environmental Impact Assessments
(EIAs) for development applications.
Environmental Management Plans (EMP)
to mitigate project implementations during
design, planning, construction,
rehabilitation and operational phases.
Environmental Management Programme
Reports (EMPR) for mining classified
activities, including borrow pits.
Peer review of EIAs, EMPs and EMPRs.
Visual and aesthetic impact assessment
of proposed development.
Baseline assessments to determine
environmental status quo.
Public Participation Process.
ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORKS
(EMFs)
A Geographic Information System (GIS) based
management and decision support system
integrating spatial planning, decision-making,
environmental planning and environmental
impact management into a coherent integrated
whole.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND
ECOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
PLANNING
An ecologically based assessment in
determining the inherent environmental
sensitivity of a development site, ensuring an
optimal environmental development fit.
Land and spatial environmental
development planning.
Rehabilitation planning and design.
Lifestyle Estate Development Planning
Natural Resource Management.
Ecotourism planning.
ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITING
AND MONITORING
Auditing of environmental management
systems
Monitoring of the implementation of
environmental management plans in
construction and operational phases of
development.

LOCAL AUTHORITY
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
DEVELOPMENT
Establishment of frameworks to facilitate
development of environmental authorising
competency at local level.
Establishing an enabling framework for
local authority EIA reviews.
Legislative review.
Environmental strategies and sectoral
plans for IDP processes.

LANDSCAPE DESIGN AND

PLANNING
Landscape design and planning to enhance
natural features of the site and its surroundings
for the optimum utilisation of open spaces
within the project context.
Conceptual Design frameworks
Landscape Master / Development
Planning
Sketch Plans and Planting Plans
Bills of Quantities and detailed cost
estimates
Detailed design and working drawings
Production of tender documentation
HEALTH AND SAFETY The Occupational Health and Safety Act (No 85
of 1993) of South Africa, as well as the relevant
regulations contain provisions directing
employers to maintain a safe workplace and to
minimise the exposure of employees and the
public to workplace hazards. Failing to comply
with these duties is a criminal offence. In the
event of an accident, it will be expected from
employers to indicate whether the harm could
have been foreseen or predicted, if yes, did the
employer take reasonable steps to prevent the
accident.
The recent published Construction Regulation,
2003, placed an additional responsibility on
employers and / or clients in South Africa to
ensure that all work is carried out and plants
maintained in terms of specific Health and
Safety Specifications.
Aurecon, with its 18 offices throughout South
Africa, is ideally placed to assist management
in fulfilling their responsibilities and duties in
terms of the Occupational Health and Safety
Act and the relevant regulations by:
Conducting Occupational Health and
Safety Baseline- and Legal Compliance
Audits
These audits provide management with
information on the Occupational Health and
Safety status of the workplace. The audit
entails a systems audit as well a physical walk-
through audit. The final report is structured in
such a way that it reflects not only the
deviations but also recommendations for
implementation.
Ensuring the sustainability of an
Occupational Health and Safety
programme
The success and sustainability of any
Occupational Health and Safety programme
depends on the level of motivation and
commitment to the programme by management
and staff. Aurecon specialises in intervention
actions to ensure that the Occupational Health
and Safety programme is maintained and
sustained. These actions include the following:
The supply, installation and
maintenance of an Occupational Health
and Safety Programme
An Occupational Health and Safety
training needs analysis
Prioritisation of training needs
Implementation of training programmes
Investigations into reportable incidents
The compilation of comprehensive
incident occurrence profiles.
Implementation Services
A complete OHS Implementation
Programme comprising of the following:
Section 16.2 appointments
Health and Safety Representative
Appointments
Health and Safety Committees
Incident Investigation
Supervision of Machinery
Appointments
First Aid
Fire fighting
Training
Any other appointment as required
Conducting Occupational Health and
Safety Training
HEALTH AND SAFETY In terms of Occupational Health and Safety, Heat/Cold
people do not intentionally break the law. It is
rather ignorance of what is required or a lack of In offering these services, Aurecon strives to
knowledge/capacity concerning the law, which maintain a close relationship with its clients in
results in unlawful actions. For this reason, order to identify their specific shortcomings in
Aurecon presents the following training courses terms of the Act and provide measures of
to educate people concerning legal aspects corrective actions to ensure minimum
related to Occupational Health and Safety: compliance to the Act.
Legal liability for top management
Legal liability for supervisors Aurecons success in this regard is based on its
Legal liability for the workforce strategy of providing a product to the client
Health and safety representatives whereby compliance to legislation is not only
Incident/accident investigation provided, but also sustained over a long
Health and safety in the workplace period of time.
Safety through the empowerment of
people CLIENTS
Aurecon has rendered OHS services to the
Aurecon (previously trading as Africon) is an following clients:
accredited training organisation with the
Services SETA and delegates will receive a Department of Correctional Services
certificate as proof of the knowledge gained East Rand Water (ERWAT)
during the course for all of the above courses. Pick n Pay Northern Region
Pick n Pay Gauteng
Negotiations with the Compensation Pick n Pay Western Cape
Commissioner
McCarthy Motor Holdings (KwaZulu-Natal)
Aurecon has the expertise to negotiate and to
McCarthy Motor Holdings (Gauteng)
interact successfully, on behalf of companies,
YUM! Restaurants International
with the Compensation Commissioner in terms
Vuka Project Management Services
of:
Government Employees Pension Fund
Annual assessment
Historical performance ISCOR
Specific tariff applicable Sishen South Mine
Cost of claims in relation to Kumba Resources
Assessment Dutton Plastics Engineering
Refunds in terms of payments Agrichicks
already made Spitz
Nashua Mobile
Approved Inspection Authority Services
Aurecon is also registered as an Approved
Inspection Authority with the South African
Department of Labour and can therefore carry
out monitoring of the following environmental
stress factors:
Noise
Dust
Radiation
Hazardous Chemical Substances
(Includes asbestos, lead, gases,
vapours and fumes)
Vibration
Illumination
MINING Aurecon recently made the strategic decision to
expand its involvement in the mining industry
and broaden its service offering to also include
mining design services, beneficiation (in
collaboration with external partners), turnkey
and Engineering, Procurement and
Construction Management (EPCM) projects, as
well as project and construction management.
Aurecon undertakes projects based upon
internationally recognised guidelines and, as
such, is an ISO 9001 accredited service
provider. With extensive experience gained
throughout Africa and beyond, combined with
newly acquired mining expertise, Aurecon is
ideally positioned to be a major player in the
mining industry.

Aurecon has executed various mining related

projects and assignments in South Africa,
Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Mozambique and
Mali. Our experience was gained in various
mining operations, such as:

Platinum Diamond
Coal Copper
Iron Uranium
Gold Manganese
Zinc

Aurecons project experience in the mining

sector includes the following engineering fields:
Transportation engineering Building services
Geotechnical services Municipal services
Electrical engineering Mechanical engineering
Quality management Water and sanitation engineering
Structural engineering Environmental services
Civil design and engineering Technical assistance
Project management Laboratory services
Quantity surveying Feasibility studies
Operation and management
MINING SERVICES Project services

1. Mining Engineering
4. Additional Services
Pre-feasibility studies
Mill lining and associated wear products
Feasibility studies and the preparation of
consulting
bankable documents
Housing estates and infrastructure
Financial evaluations and modelling
maintenance management
Geotechnical investigations
2. Infrastructure Design Demand Side Management (DSM) services
as a registered Electricity Services
Surface
Company (ESCO) with Eskom
Road and rail transportation
Disaster management
Utilities related to electrical power
reticulation, compressed air plant as well HIV/Aids awareness programmes
as water supply and treatment Occupational health and safety services
Plants and support systems related to Mechanical engineering services
ventilation and refrigeration plants, backfill Electrical engineering services
plants, material handling and logistics Surveying services
Buildings Quantity surveying
Housing and town infrastructure Environmental management
Recreational facilities Legal services
Beneficiation
Bulk materials handling (conveyors, MINING CLIENTS
tipplers, load out stations, live bottom Sasol Mining
silos) Goldfields
Anglo American
De Beers
Underground
Debswana
Station (level) Namdeb
Rock pass systems, bulkheads, tips, silos Impala Platinum
and bunkers Kumba Resources
Inter-level rock handling and control Bateman
Materials handling facilities (conveyors) Ingwe
Iscor
Pumping installations Eskom
Underground mine water handling, Rssing Uranium
treatment and disposal Hartebeesfontein Gold Mine
Loading stations Western Areas Gold Mining Co Ltd
Transport logistics
Mine services (electrical, water,
compressed air and lighting) 5. Minerals and metals
Hydro transport pumping of solids Engineering resources and services
Workshops
Communication systems Aurecon provides the following services:
Instrumentation engineering
Hazard and risk assessment
3. Project Delivery Hydraulics
Project evaluation Survey and GIS
Turnkey and EPCM contracts Planning
Project, Engineering and Construction Fire engineering
Management Procurement
Commissioning Construction management
MINING 6. Mechanical engineering Industrial steel framed buildings
Conveyor support structures
Aurecon can provide a complete mechanical
Crane runway structures
engineering consultancy in areas of plant
Bulk solid containers
layout, materials and fluid handling and storage
Structural condition audits
for all industries.
Concrete repairs/remediation
We are experienced in:
Bulk materials handling and storage 8. Electrical and instrumentation
Conveying systems engineering
Emission controls
Fume extraction and dust control Services include:
Special purpose machinery and Infrastructure design
production facilities Substations
Pump systems (including difficult to Switchboard design
pump substances such as must and Plant electrical reticulation
wet marc) Industrial lighting systems
Industrial refrigeration and steam Electrical safety system design
heating Hazard and risk assessment
Process cooling and heating Process control design
Industrial ventilation and air
conditioning 9. Bulk materials handling
Clean rooms
CIP systems Aurecon has extensive expertise in the
Storage and handling of dangerous planning, design and construction management
goods of bulk materials handling projects, including
seaboard import and export terminals and
Drive systems
associated port and marine works facilities.
Process services/utilities
Safety systems
Marine
Port operations
Structures and dredging
Shipping and ocean freight
Vessel selection and design
Tug and barge operations
Planning

Port
Terminal operations
Train unloading
7. Civil and structural engineering Stockyard operations
Simulation
Aurecon can provide complete civil and
structural engineering services in road and rail Yard machines
infrastructure, factory building structural design,
plant structural support, and material storage Rail
facility design. Route selection
Bulk freight operations
We are experienced in: Container freight operations
Concrete foundations Alignment and civil design
Heavy duty pavements Signalling and communications
MINING Road Design and specification of primary
Route selection and design support utilising rib support, bolting,
Civil engineering and construction shotcrete, secondary linings and
Haul road operations and truck selection segmental linings
Construction planning and advice
Handling Instrumentation planning and
Mobile equipment operations and implementation
selection Contract documentation and tender
assessment
Overland Contract administration, site supervision
Conveyors and inspection
Slurry pipelines Computer modelling using finite elements,
Ropeways finite difference or distinct element
modelling
Systems
Simulation Engineering for the tunnelling environment
Capacity and strategic planning often presents challenges that are not normally
Optimisation studies encountered in more commonly practised
fields. In successfully dealing with these
Business challenges, Aurecon calls upon the vast
Competition policy experience of its specialist staff to provide
Rail, marine and road operating costs clients with cost effective solutions. Having
Economic, financial and market analysis such a wealth of experience in the company
also provides an excellent breeding ground for
Transport economics
younger, less experienced engineers to
Due diligence
develop their talents.
Tunnels
Aurecon can provide a full range of appropriate
services in all stages of project implementation
including:
A depth of in-house staff resources that
is unsurpassed in its experience in the
broad range of disciplines required for
underground projects
A history of innovative, cost effective and
practical solutions to underground
problems as Aurecon has been
responsible for initiatives that have
introduced new tunnelling technology
Extensive project experience on privately
developed infrastructure projects and a
firm commitment to making a project a
winner.

Aurecon has a range of specialist skills in

tunnelling including:
Feasibility studies and preliminary design
reports
Design and specification of tunnels using
tunnel boring machine, roadheader, drill
and blast methods and microtunnelling
BUILDING PROJECTS Engineering design and supervision
for the Peter Mokaba Stadium, South
Africa
Aurecon, in a Joint Venture with Prism/KC
Maiwashe/Newtown, was appointed for the
design, documentation and construction
supervision of the Peter Mokaba Stadium in
Polokwane for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
The initial brief called for the upgrading and
adaptation of the existing Peter Mokaba
Stadium in Polokwane with a total of 7 500
permanent seats. The new stadium has 45 000
permanent seats.
Prism Architects, a local architectural firm in
Polokwane, are the architects of record for this
prestigious project. They are assisted by AFL
Architects from Manchester in the United
Kingdom, who will bring their international
experience on stadiums to the table.
Aurecon is responsible for all the engineering
disciplines, ie civil, structural, geotechnical,
traffic, electrical, and electronic, HVAC as well
as fire and wet services on this project. The
services of SKM Anthony Hunt, a multi-
disciplinary consulting engineering firm
specialising in stadium design, has been
secured to bring its international experience in
stadium design to the team. Aurecons team is
led by Stoffel Mentz and the local coordination
in Polokwane is done by Hannes Claassens,
the regional manager for Limpopo.
The Quantity Surveyors on the project are KC
Maiwashe and Associates in a Joint Venture
with KDM, both local quantity surveying firms
from Polokwane. The leading principals of the
Joint Venture that are responsible for the
finances of the project are Kathu Maiwashe
and Faisal Ghood.
Newtown Landscaping Architects from
Johannesburg, in Joint Venture with Bagale,
completes the professional team responsible
for conducting this important project for the
Polokwane Municipality. The current
construction value is R860 million and
construction will be completed by end of June
2009.
RMB properties office complex in
Fairlands, Gauteng
New corporate head offices for Wesbank and
FNB Home Loans in Fairlands, Johannesburg.
Aurecon's scope of services included
structural, civil, geotechnical, facade, fire and
wet services engineering for this 140 000m
prestigious office development.
The development comprised two basement
parking levels (80 000m) forming a podium for
two separate office blocks and a shared
facilities building. Each office block, one each
for Wesbank (25 000m) and FNB Home Loans
(16 000m), comprise three floors of open plan
office space with entrance and central triple
volume atrium spaces. Each tenant is housed
in their own office block with dedicated main
entrances. Each office block has access to the
common shared facility placed centrally
between the two offices, which houses a multi-
purpose area, staff canteen, retail stores,
display areas and landscaped recreational
areas. Externally, provision is made for parking,
a gate house and a utilities area.
The office block features a facade most notable
for the unusual elliptically shaped 'pods'
designed to display signage. Horizontal and
vertical sunscreens are among the other design
elements to create a striking landmark.
BUILDING PROJECTS A total of 120 000m of suspended slab and 60
000m of concrete was used in the
development.
Aurecon, in partnership with Iliso Consulting,
received a commendation in the category
'Projects with a Value Greater than R5 million',
for the Fairlands Office Complex project at the
annual CESA/Glenrand MIB Engineering
Excellence Awards in August 2008.
Conceptual design, detailed design,
preparation of construction documentation and
construction monitoring for the following
services:
Structural design
Civil design
Wet services design
Fire design
Geotechnical design
Facade design
SA Reserve Bank head office
extensions
The South African Reserve Bank building is the
tallest building in the capital city, Tshwane. The
building tower extends to 150m above street
level, whilst the basement reaches 25m below
ground. The building was originally completed
in 1988, with Aurecon as civil and structural
engineers. The original design made provision
for future vertical extensions over the podium
and Annexe structures, which were
implemented in the Extension Project. Aurecon
was again appointed as civil and structural
engineers for this R180 million expansion.
The most difficult aspect of the new project was
to accommodate the provision of new covered
staff parking within the constraints of the
existing site. An adjoining site was sub-
divided, rezoned and consolidated with the
existing site during 1999 - 2000.
The final approved scheme consisted of the
following:
An 850 bay, 10 storey purpose-designed
parking structure, accommodated within a
25m height restriction zone.
14 000m of additional office space
constructed over the existing podium
structure.
Conference and Banqueting facilities over
the existing Annexe accommodating 500
people.
RMB Merchant Place
This project comprised four free-standing office
buildings and a multi-storey parkade. The
office building structures have been arranged in
such a way as to be serviced and secured by a
common basement utilised for parking and
allowing traffic-free pedestrian movement on
the ground level. The four office buildings,
varying between 5 and 22 storeys, amount to
30 000m, 4 500m, 9 500m and 18 000m of
gross building area respectively. Basement
parking under these buildings amounts to 1 300
bays. The nine-level multi-storey parkade (36
000m) houses an additional 1 400 parking
bays, and is utilised solely for office parking.
The structural design of the buildings was
based on a principle of concrete frames over a
multi-level basement. The highly economical
structural floors consist of 220mm and 250mm
partially prestressed solid slabs on a column
grid of 8,4m x 8,4m governed by parking
considerations in the basement.
BUILDING PROJECTS MTN Innovation Centre - Phase 2
The recently completed Phase 2 component of
the MTN Innovation Centre in Fairland,
Johannesburg, further enhances this high-
technology development which will eventually
consolidate the operations of South African
cellular operator, Mobile Telephone Networks
(MTN), onto a single site.
The building concept is that of a robust and
flexible building capable of accommodating
future changes and churn, representing the
ever-changing dynamics of the end-user. The
building is also designed with energy efficiency
in mind and is formally part of the green
building challenge, a worldwide collaboration
project of the CSIR.
Completed in a record period of just 18 months,
this fast-track project valued at some R350
million presented both the professional team
and contractor with various challenges, among
which the following:
Ensuring vibration-free piling for the
foundations to the superstructure
Completing the concrete structure within
eight months as this was critical to
ensuring overall project success
Handing over various portions of the
buildings to the end-user in a phased
manner to allow fit-out and occupation
Completing the majority of the external
work in the rainy season
Accommodating extensions to the scope
of work as the project proceeded.
Services provided:
Structural Engineering
Civil Engineering
Geotechnical Engineering
Wet Services
Fire Design
Bahrain Financial Harbour, United
Arab Emirates
In November 2002, Aurecon was appointed by
Ahmed Abubaker Janahi Architects in the
Kingdom of Bahrain as Consulting Engineers
for the Feasibility and Urban Planning Study of
the proposed Bahrain Financial Harbour. This
development was of unprecedented scale as a
financial investment project in the Kingdom of
Bahrain and one for which a wide range of
design resources and multi-disciplinary skills
were required.
Aurecons involvement in the project to date
incorporated a financial viability and urban
planning feasibility study including a desk
study, field investigations and first order cost
estimate report for the development. Aurecons
feasibility study focussed on context, area and
site planning, and brought together numerous
disciplines including urban planning,
architectural design and quantity surveying as
well as a full range of engineering skills.
Aurecon secured further appointments on this
project for the conceptual planning, preliminary
design and feasibility stage and also for tender
documentation for the Twin Towers and
Financial Mall. The tender documentation was
completed and is based on detailed design and
construct basis. Aurecon was responsible for
BUILDING PROJECTS the Structural, MEPD, Fire and Solid Waste
documentation; while the Joint Venture
Partners executed the Mechanical and
Electrical work.
Aurecon was subsequently contracted to
provide design and supervision services for the
external civil infrastructure, roads and bridges
of the entire BFH precinct. The estimated
construction value of this work was US$ 350
million.
PriceWaterhouseCoopers Tshwane
Office, South Africa
Aurecon was responsible for the bulk
earthworks, civil engineering services
(including the slip lane design from Atterbury
road for traffic access to the building), structural
engineering, stormwater design and bulk
services to the building as well as rational fire
design.
This 11000m four storey office block was
designed to commercial office standards, using
reinforced concrete trough slabs for the office
block and solid post-tensioned un-waterproofed
parking decks. The building sits on a ventilated
semi-basement for parking. The structure is
founded conventionally on pad footings. All
paving on ground was designed with paving
block, including the basement parking area.
Accra Mall, Ghana
Spearheading the new retail trend in the
Ghanaian capital, Accra, is the construction of
the new 20 000m Accra Mall, the countrys first
modern shopping centre. The mall, which
opened its doors in April 2007, is Ghanas
largest construction project to date and is one
of the largest and most modern malls in West
Africa.
Aurecon was appointed as structural and civil
engineers for the project and responsibilities
included the design for mass earthworks,
external bulk services and all access roads and
parking areas.
The mall accommodates two South African
retailers, Shoprite Checkers and Game. It was
designed by architects Bentel Associates
International (BAI) and the developers were
South African based. CDC Capital Partners, in
association with local Ghanaian partner, Inter
City Hotels.
The mall, with 19 700m lettable area,
accommodates retail, food and service outlets
ranging in size between 60m and 800m
(excluding the anchors) and a 800 space car
park. The designs incorporated traditional
internal mall circulation with several interesting
vistas onto the dynamic food court, open
skylights and modern flush plastered ceiling
and tiled floors. State-of-the-art air
conditioning, fire protection systems and
security ensures that this centre is world-class.
A best practice approach has been utilised in
all aspects of the design. Although the bulk of
the technical documentation was done in South
Africa by consultants, the client insisted that
each consultant has a Joint Venture partner in
Ghana who was responsible for on-site
conditions.
Challenges on the project were massive.
Whenever possible, the architects have tried to
utilise local building materials, technology and
suppliers, but the bulk of materials had to be
imported from afar as Egypt, Italy and South
Africa. Finding qualified and experienced
contractors also took some effort. Another
challenge was the fact that the mall is located
in a seismic area and as such engineers have
had to ensure that the detailed design
encompassed all earthquake zone
requirements. Maintenance is an important
concern and all mechanical and electrical
installations were designed to be as energy
and maintenance efficient as possible.
Blue Ocean Park Resort, Mauritius
Aurecon was appointed to complete the full
complement of engineering services design for
this new development in Balaclava Bay by
Mirage Leisure & Development on the north-
western shore of Mauritius. The resort
BUILDING PROJECTS comprised a 193 key, five-star leisure
development with sixteen three-storey room
blocks, two large pools, a private spa and kids
club complemented with restaurant and
conference facilities. The total built area is
about 12 500m on a site of some 67 000m
located in Balaclava Bay on the north-western
shore of Mauritius.
Aurecons services included the following:
Structural design
Civil services design
Electrical engineering
HVAC services
Wet services
Fire Services and Gas supply
Projects on Palm Jumeirah, Dubai
Palm Jumeirah or The Palm, Jumeirah is an
artificial island constructed in Dubai by
Nakheel. The island is in the shape of a palm
tree. It consists of a trunk, a crown with 17
fronds, and a surrounding crescent island that
forms breakwater of 11km long. The Palm
extends 6.5km into the Persian Gulf. The island
was created by pouring sand fill onto the 10.5
metre-deep seabed using bottom-dump
dredgers. More than 100 million cubic metres
of sand and rock have been used to create
60km of beaches. Rocks weighing a total of 7
million tons have been brought in from 16
quarries. Calcareous sand, cemented into
sandstone, was used for the reclamation.
Aurecon was involved in three projects on the
Palm Jumeirah, namely the Fairmont Palm
Residence, The Golden Mile Apartment
Residences and the Fairmont Hotel.
Fairmont Palm Residence, Palm
Jumeirah, Dubai
The Fairmont Palm Residence is located on the
trunk of the Palm Jumeirah, and contains 558
deluxe apartments, townhouses and
penthouses, directly linked to the five-star
Fairmont Palm Hotel and Resort. The
apartment units contain 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5
bedrooms from 1 508 to 11 638 square feet.
Residents have access to an extensive range
of services provided by the hotel, including a
beach and health club, private beach,
swimming pool, children's playground,
restaurants and cafes, housekeeping and
maintenance, maid and childcare services, as
well as the nearby boutiques and restaurants of
The Palm Golden Mile. The Fairmont Palm
Residence has North and South Wing
apartment buildings and was developed by IFA
Hotels & Resorts.
Aurecon was appointed to do the fire safety
and systems design and construction
supervision for these services at both the
Fairmont Palm Residence and Hotel. Work on
the Hotel also included wet building services
design, stormwater reticulation design and
construction supervision of these services.
Golden Mile apartment residences,
Dubai
The Golden Mile is a mixed-use Retail,
Restaurant and Residential Development
(covering 60 000m and including 860
apartments) located on the Western portion of
the Trunk of the Palm Jumeirah. The Gold Mile
Residences contain 10 waterfront buildings
with approximately 780 freehold apartments
from one bedroom to penthouses and town
homes. It is a Joint Venture between Al
Nakheel and IFA Hotels & Resorts. Aurecon
was appointed to do the fire safety and
systems design as well as the construction
supervision for these services.
BUILDING PROJECTS Chris Hani Baragwaneth Hospital:
transactional advisor for the
upgrading feasibility study and
possible PPP
CHBH has been described as the second
biggest hospital in the world. However, the
hospital is in serious need of upgrading. This
project entailed an investigation into the various
options for meeting the clients needs, a
detailed feasibility of the recommended option
and, if proven feasible, the procurement of a
new or refurbished facility through a PPP
(Public-Private Partnership).
University of South Africa, Pretoria
The first phase of this campus was started in
the early seventies. Aurecon has been the
structural engineers for all the buildings but
one, as well as the civil engineers for most of
the roads and parking areas. Buildings
designed include: Academic I and II,
Administration I and II, Library, Computer
Centre, Printing Facility and various Parking
Structures. Of special note is the extensive
use of coloured face concrete and pre-cast
concrete facade panels.

The Transaction Advisor was required to

conduct a feasibility study and potential
procurement of the Chris Hani Baragwanath
Hospital through a Public-Private Partnership
(PPP) for the client in accordance with South
Africas National Treasurys PPP guidelines.
The Project was divided into three distinct
phases.
Phase 1 consisted of a Needs Analysis (a
thorough analysis of the clients needs for Crown Casino, Melbourne, Australia
this hospital) and a Solutions Option
This outstanding building features a 40-storey,
Analysis (an analysis of the various
five-star hotel positioned above two basement
options that will address the needs).
car parks and a podium structure incorporating
Phase 2 required a Project Due Diligence,
the casino itself. Due to the nature of the
Value Assessment and Procurement Plan
ground and presence of ground water, an
for the comprehensive Feasibility Study,
undrained approach to the basement design
which had to be prepared for submission
was taken allowing the natural ground water to
to National Treasury for Treasury
return to its original level around the basement
Authorisation I (TA I) in terms of the PPP
walls post construction. The project also
regulations issued under the Public
featured the first battered excavation in
Finance Management Act. This required a
Melbournes notorious Coode Island silt and
demonstration that the proposed PPP
development of a hybrid concrete/steel podium
arrangement would be affordable to
floor structure in Australia.
Government and that value for money, in
terms of the proposed risk allocations,
This project has won numerous awards from
was indicated.
the Property Council of Australia; the Property
Subject to receipt of TA I, the Transaction
Association of Consulting Engineers; and the
Advisor was required to assist in the
Institution of Engineers in Australia.
procurement of the PPP partner, Phase 3,
through a possible bidder pre-qualification Eureka Tower, Melbourne, Australia
process and the preparation of a Strategic
Once complete, this 90-storey tower will be the
Implementation Plan, draft Request for
tallest residential building in the southern
Proposals, an Evaluation System and a
hemisphere. Situated on the prestigious south
draft Contract, which were to be submitted
bank of the Yarra River, the structure requires
to National Treasury for Treasury
piles of up to 50 m in length to support the
Authorisation II (TA IIA).
tower through the soft, compressible silts
BUILDING PROJECTS typical to the site. The tower will also use the
inherent damping capacity of the large water
tanks at the top of the building to minimise
accelerations and residents perceptions of
movement.

Bridgewater Place, Leeds, United

Kingdom
Once complete, Bridgewater Place will
comprise a mixed commercial office and
residential development. A former car park site,
the new development will include 21,000 m2
office space, 158 apartments and 1,500 m2
retail and leisure accommodation. The
structural design comprises slender, flat slab,
post-tensioned floor plates supported on
reinforced concrete columns and cores.
 Various residential towns, South
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Africa
For the past 20 years, Aurecon was
continuously involved in the planning, design
and construction supervision of the complete
municipal and infrastructure services of seven
major residential townships in South Africa, as
well as various new residential developments in
the Middle East. Aurecon was involved in, and
assisted various clients from the inception
stage, with planning, negotiations, agreements,
approval up to end of retention and
maintenance, with release of guarantees. In
addition to the normal infrastructure
engineering aspects, Aurecon also provided
extensive project management budget
reporting and cost reconciliation services.
Aurecon continues to consult on residential
development projects and has developed this
field of business into a key service line.
Nova Vida development, Angola
The project, valued at approximately $80
million, involved the design and construction of
1 600 flats (mostly four-storey buildings with
four 3-bedroom flats per floor), 500 3-bedroom
houses as well as total infrastructure, and 300
4-bedroom houses for the Ministry of Public
Works, Angola. Group Five Housing and
Projects completed the design and construction
of the buildings, using their Goldflex 800
Precast Housing System.
Aurecon's role entailed the provision of a
contract management and construction
monitoring service to the Ministry, and to
supply resident engineers. Aurecon was also
responsible for doing the design review, as well
as some design work including a reservoir,
water tower and landscaping and infrastructure
designs for Group Five. This included roads
and stormwater, water, sanitation, and
electricity. The water and sanitation design
services entailed designing approximately
30km of sewers, a 2.1M treatment works, a
sewage pump station, approximately 22km of
water pipes and a clear water pump station as
part of the water reticulation network.
Viana Housing development, Angola
A housing development was being constructed
on this property. The development was taking
place in stages and currently the development
comprises approximately 2 750 developed
stands. It is proposed that a further
approximate 5 000 housing units will be
developed in the adjoining areas.
The aim of the project was to upgrade the level
of service available to the existing 2 750 stands
in Viana and where new services were installed
to include provision for future expansion or
allow for the planning for such expansions to
be effected. Aurecon was appointed for the
civil engineering design and contract
documentation of the following services:
Upgrading of the stormwater drainage and
control system
Protection against and prevention of
erosion
Extensions to the water supply system to
cater for the proposed high-rise residential
complexes
Provision of a sewer drainage system to
collect the overflow emanating from the
existing septic tanks
Upgrading and surfacing of main and
secondary roads in the area
Upgrading of existing water reticulation
Upgrading of existing electrical reticulation
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Yzerfontein, Western Cape, South
Africa
This coastal resort on the West Coast consists
of 150 residential units concentrated in nodes
behind the primary coastal dunes. The rest of
the original farm is managed as a nature
reserve with horse trails and other features.
Aurecon was responsible for all civil and
structural aspects of the project. Great care
was taken to limit the impact of construction
work on the flora and fauna. The project was
awarded the 1993 EPPIC National Premium
Award for Integrated Environmental
Management.
Delft Leiden housing project
The Delft Leiden housing project was the
largest housing project ever to be undertaken
by the City of Cape Town on a turnkey project
basis. The project involved the development of
6 320 low cost housing units in Delft on the
Cape Flats.
Aurecons involvement in the project included
the design and site supervision for the site
services as part of a consortium with another
engineering firm. Our work included 50% of
the road, stormwater and sewer design and full
water reticulation. Full services to the value of
R30 million were installed in only seven
months.
A number of innovative design solutions were
implemented in order to optimise on the
services design. Instead of compromising on
safety standards in order to reduce service
costs, the design team identified the key
service components and decided to ensure the
integrity of these. To realise savings in other
areas, a critical assessment of new
technologies was made and an innovative
approach to design was adopted whereby the
internal service delivery within blocks and at
collector street level were treated separately.
By accommodating functions such as fire
fighting and waste collection from the collector
streets, the services within residential blocks
could be scaled down, thereby saving costs
without having to reduce safety standards.
Management of wind blown sand is one of the
biggest challenges facing a designer in the
Cape Flats. This was achieved through various
measures such as hardening of the road
verges, placement of housing units close to the
road edge and reducing the number of
catchpits, thereby limiting sand entering the
stormwater system. This was only possible
because of the design teams extensive
practical experience over many years regarding
stormwater management for conditions typical
to this area.
The project received the Western Capes
Institute of Housing Project of the Year,
Developer of the Year and Best Local Authority
of the Year Awards while the City of Cape
Towns Mr Herman Steyn was awarded both
the Provincial and National Award as Housing
Person of the Year for his involvement in the
project.
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Estate, Tshwane, South Africa
Aurecon was appointed as infrastructure
consultants for this prestigious US$55 million
Gardener Ross Golf & Country Estate.
Situated in the Tshwane metropolitan area, this
development boasts the only Ernie Els-
signature golf course in Gauteng, as well as
one of the best club houses, a wellness centre,
a convenience retail development and a large
number of exclusive residential dwellings.
Work on the development commenced in
August 2004 and, going forward, will certainly
be a big boost for the local economy by
contributing to job creation in the Gauteng
region. Phase 1 of the development was
completed in October 2005, while phases 2
and 3 were completed end of October 2006.
As part of the construction implementation
programme, Aurecon also conducted a CETA
registered pilot programme encompassing
social training and HIV/AIDS education.
Euphoria Golf and Country Lifestyle
Estate, Naboomspruit, South Africa
The Euphoria Golf Estate is strategically
located 140km north of the economic hub of
Gauteng in the Waterberg region of Limpopo
Province, easily accessible from the N1
highway between Pretoria and Polokwane.
The malaria-free Waterberg region has been
identified as a major tourism attraction and
prized for its alluring combination of rolling hills,
graceful valleys and grassland plains covered
with pristine bushveld.
Annika Sorenstam, number one female golfer
for the past five years, is the name behind this
first lady's-signature golf course in South
Africa. The 18-hole Championship Golf Course
was designed with a serious commitment to
preservation of indigenous fauna and flora, with
limited memberships available to non-owners.
The Golf Academy and Training Centre offer a
comprehensive range of lessons and clinics to
suit all ages and golfing standards.
The contemporary chic architectural theme
blends classic lines and themes with modern
material and finishes. The 122 Gentleman
Bushveld Stands, an average of 8 723m in
size, offer a feeling of privacy and of being in
the bush, whereas the avid golfers will
appreciate the intimate views of lush fairways
and greens offered by these 401 stands with an
average of 1 025m in size. The picturesque
village green with affordable units offers
residents a real sense of community with the
179 units (with an average size of 747m),
situated close to the Estate's Shops, Business
Centre, Chapel and Olive and Macadamia
orchards.
Val de Vie Winelands Lifestyle
Estate, South Africa
This prestigious exclusive resort is situated on
the banks of the Berg River between Paarl and
Franschhoek in the Western Cape Province of
South Africa. It is surrounded by the
Simonsberg and Drakenstein Mountains and
bordered by vineyards and orchards.
Aurecon was appointed as principal civil,
structural and electrical engineers. Aurecon
also acted as the Health and Safety agent and
was responsible for all contract management,
administration and site supervision duties for
this development.
The development includes two world-class polo
fields, polo pavilion, stables, gym, wine cellar,
luxury guesthouse, conference centre,
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facilities. The project was completed by June
2007.
Erinvale Country Estate and Golf
Club: Somerset West, Western Cape,
South Africa
Erinvale Country Estate, where the 1996 World
Cup Golf tournament was played, consists of
an 18 hole golf course (designed by Gary
Player), a clubhouse, a maintenance centre,
326 general residential stands, 100 group
housing stands and a hotel.
Aurecon was involved in the conceptual
planning, rezoning applications, traffic impact
studies, geotechnical and geohydrological
investigations, detailed design of roads, all civil
and electrical services, remedial work to
existing dams, sewage, irrigation and water
pump stations, stormwater drainage channels,
structural design of the clubhouse, electrical
reticulation and full-time site inspections.
Erinvale has already established itself as a
leading golf estate in South Africa. Aurecon
was also the civil and structural engineers for
the Erinvale Lodge, a hotel on the site. This
comprised, inter alia, the renovation of existing
historical buildings and the construction of a
number of additional structures, parking areas
and site services.
Leopard Creek Country Club,
Malelane, Mpumalanga, South Africa
This project consists of an 18-hole golf course,
clubhouse, sport facilities, maintenance centre
and 250 residential stands adjoining the Kruger
National Park. Construction of this project was
completed in 1996. Aurecons involvement
covers the full spectrum of civil, electrical,
electronic, and structural engineering design
and also includes the geotechnical
investigations.
Aurecon was also responsible for full-time site
inspection services. The value of the civil and
electrical infrastructure work was approximately
US$4,5 million.
Paradyskloof Golf Estate,
Stellenbosch - Golf Estate, South
Africa
This proposed golf estate abuts the
Stellenbosch Mountains and surrounds the
Vriesenhof Wine Estate. Aurecon was part of
the team of developer and consultants who
made a successful bid to the Stellenbosch
Municipality to develop this prime piece of land
into a prestige golf estate. The development
includes a 250 bed hotel, 18-hole
championship golf course and 500 residential
opportunities. Aurecon acted as civil, structural
and electrical consulting engineers for this
project.
Fancourt Golf Estate Phase 1,
George, Western Cape, South Africa
Fancourt Golf Estate consisted initially of a 27-
hole golf course (designed by Gary Player),
clubhouse, maintenance centre, an initial 170
private lodges, a condominium with 18 units as
well as future residential stands. Aurecon was
the consulting engineer responsible for the
planning, design and supervision of the civil
and structural services at the estate.
Aurecons involvement included:
conceptual planning
rezoning applications
overall site layouts for cost estimates
traffic impact studies
negotiations with local authorities
regarding future bulk service supply
connections
development of long-term strategies with
the local authorities regarding future
access to the development, future water
supply and future sewage connections
geotechnical investigations
detailed design of roads, civil services,
parking areas, some dams on the golf
course, irrigation and sewage pump
stations, water channels and remedial
work to existing dams
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residential units, golf cart bridges, low
water bridge and pipe bridges
preliminary design of the proposed Health
and Leisure Centre
Pecanwood Estate,
Hartebeespoortdam, South Africa
Aurecon was appointed for the design of the
stormwater system of the whole estate. The
development is situated on the banks of the
Hartebeespoortdam. The Jack Niklaus
signature golf course was excavated mostly
below the natural ground level to improve the
aesthetics and to create fill material for the
residential platforms adjacent to the dam.
Aurecon was responsible for the integration of
the stormwater for both the golf course and
residential areas by using the lower lying golf
course as retention areas to ensure an
economical design and at the same time to
prevent the residential areas from flooding.
Grande Roche Hotel, Paarl, South
Africa
This luxury hotel comprises 29 double bedroom
suites, restaurants, a conference centre and
recreational facilities. An open air stage and
amphitheatre are attached to the conference
building.
Some units were newly built but the majority of
the hotel complex is accommodated in the
historic farmstead buildings, which were fully
restored. The hotel opened in 1992 and is now
a declared national monument.
Aurecon was involved in the restoration work,
and was responsible for the design of the
structural and external civil components of the
project.
Pearl Valley Country Estate and
Gold Resort, South Africa
This prestigious upmarket resort is situated on
the banks of the Berg River between Paarl and
Franschhoek in the Western Cape Province of
South Africa. It is surrounded by the
Simonsberg and Drakenstein Mountains and
bordered by vineyards and orchards. Aurecon
was appointed as principal civil and structural
engineers for all the work including drafting of
the tender documentation and doing contract
administration for the golf course. The
development includes an 18-hole Jack Nicklaus
Signature golf course, luxury hotel, conference
centre, resort lodges, residential erven,
equestrian centre, sports facilities, waste water
treatment works and reservoirs.
The golf course turf is irrigated by a state-of-
the-art irrigation system utilising three variable
frequency drive pumps and a pressure
maintenance or jockey pump controlled by
means of pressure switches and magnetic flow
meters. The water, which is abstracted from
the Berg River system, gravitates through a
series of lakes into the irrigation lake. A central
control computer and satellite field controllers
are programmed to open valves as required.
Records can be drawn and settings and
sequencing changed from the central
computer.
Aurecon provided the following other services:
All civil infrastructure design work which
include bulk earthworks for the golf course
and housing platforms, feature lakes,
roads, stormwater, sewer, water, potable
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works and a regional sewage pumping
station
All structural designs
Contract administration for all civil and
structural work, including the golf course
construction
Pinnacle Point Beach and Golf
Resort, Mossel Bay, South Africa
Set on the edge of the Indian Ocean, Pinnacle
Point Beach and Golf Resort is situated at the
gateway to the Garden Route of South Africa. It
consists of four hundred hectares of prime
land, of which one hundred hectares comprise
the nature reserve. The resort is home to
indigenous wildlife, birdlife and 264 varieties of
fynbos. Pinnacle Point consists of an 18-hole
championship golf course incorporating three
separate residential components - 120 golf
lodges, 114 golf villas and 406 freehold erven.
All developments are sensitively integrated with
the surrounding nature reserve. The golf
course includes dramatic cliffside holes and
was designed by renowned golf architect Peter
Matcovitch, who describes this course as "the
most dramatic golf course site I've ever
encountered anywhere in the world!"
The development also consists of a 40-room
hotel, casino and a wellness centre with 120
golf lodges in Cape Cod style, and 114
superbly designed golf villas.
Aurecon was appointed as principal civil,
structural and electrical engineers for the entire
development. This included the drafting of the
tender documentation and doing contract
administration for the golf course. The
appointment included the civil and structural
engineering design for the golf course and
clubhouse, 406 residential erven, 96 Fynbos
Village Lodges, 130 Golf Villas and hotel, a
Casino and 120 Casino Lodges. Aurecon was
also responsible for the design of a 3,7M
wastewater treatment works. The civil services
contracts, as well as the golf course, club
house and main entrance facility were
completed in 2006. The water treatment works
were completed in October 2005.
Blue Valley Golf and Country Estate
and Samrand Interchange, Gauteng,
South Africa
This US$17 million plus, high-security
residential development is located on the
southern boundary of the Centurion municipal
area, just off the N1 Highway between Midrand
and Pretoria, South Africa. Set in highveld
grassland with the Rietspruit River running
through the property, the estate consists of an
18-hole Gary Player-designed championship
golf course, a clubhouse, some 800 residential
stands, a number of higher-density residential
cluster stands and an office park comprising
some 38 stands. The total infrastructure
project amounted to a value of approximately
US$7.5 million. The innovative use of road
layouts, stormwater channel systems and
street furniture contributes to the establishment
of the tranquil environment, with maximum use
being made of the Rietspruit River, which runs
through the property.
The development includes a total of six dams
and two wetlands which were created with
minimal disturbance to the natural ecology and
flood lines. The dams have a storage capacity
of some 120 000m, and were designed so as
not to disrupt the natural flow of the river.
Already, bird life and other small animal
species are starting to re-establish in the newly
created habitat.
Aurecon was also responsible for the new
interchange which had to be provided on the
N1 freeway. The layout combined a diamond
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Commercial City. Both the six-lane freeway
and the Service Station had to be 100%
operational during and after construction.
Samrand Avenue crosses the Highway at a low
point.
Due to visibility requirements of the Ultra City
Complex, Samrand Avenue had to cross under
the freeway, resulting in complex drainage
problems, which had to be solved during the
design. Unique jacked bridge structures were
designed for the highway and the accesses to
the premises.
Master planning for Palm Deira,
Dubai
The Palm Deira is the largest of the three Palm
Islands (Palm Jumeirah, Palm Jebel Ali and
Palm Deira). It is located on the Deira coastal
area of the emirate of Dubai, in the United Arab
Emirates (UAE). The unique man-made palm-
shaped island consists of a trunk, a crown with
41 fronds, and a surrounding crescent island
that forms a water-breaker.
The Palm Deira covers 14km (8.7 miles) in
length and 8.5km (5.3 miles) in width and has
an area of 80km (861 million square feet). It
consists of residential property, marinas,
shopping malls, sports facilities and clubs. The
residential area is located on the fronds and
contains 8 000 two-storey town houses in three
distinct styles - Premier Villas, Grand Villas and
Vista Town Homes.
Aurecon was responsible for the master
planning of:
Roads, highways, bridges, tunnels,
interchanges, street lighting
Bulk earthworks, final levels, stormwater
system
Water supply, storage, pumping,
reticulation, possibly desalination
Sewage reticulation, pumping, treatment,
disposal of sludge
Irrigation with TSE, storage, pumping,
reticulation, fire hydrant network
Solid waste collection, disposal
methodology
Electricity transmission, substations,
distribution
Transportation planning
Communication, IT data systems, SCADA,
other ULV and fibre optic systems
District cooling feasibility study, system
network
Services coordination, main service
culverts
Golf City Development, Dubailand,
Dubai, UAE
Dubailand is an innovative, awe-inspiring
development that represents an integral part of
Dubais bold vision to become the tourism,
leisure and entertainment capital of the region.
This development will comprises over 200
individual projects, one of which is Golf City.
Golf City is a unique, 500 hectares, golf course
and resort community development in
Dubailand.
Madinat Jumeirah Resort, Dubai,
UAE
The internationally acclaimed Madinat
Jumeirah Resort in Dubai is Aurecons most
recently completed example of a large-scale
building services project in the Gulf. Aurecon
was involved in planning, design and
construction supervision of:
building wet services including water
storage, treatment, pumping and site
reticulation
passive and active fire protection systems
civil infrastructure and civil structures
gas storage and reticulation
road works
water canals and bridges
marine works and studies in collaboration
with a specialist coastal engineering
consultancy

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This AED 1.6 billion flagship development was
opened in phases during 2003 and 2004 and is
operated by Jumeirah International. The
development managers were Mirage Mille
Leisure & Development, acting on behalf of the
client, His Highness General Sheikh
Mohammed Bin Rashid, Crown Prince of
Dubai.
Burj Dubai Old Town Residential:
Business Hotels, Dubai, UAE
The Old Town Residential development is part
of the Burj Dubai precinct, which includes the
planned tallest building in the world. The
residential development includes two hotels, an
eight storey, four star, 200 key, 24 000m hotel
with a retail component and a six storey three
star 186 key, 18 000m hotel. Aurecon was
appointed for the Fire and Life Safety and Wet,
Gas and Fire Systems.
Master planning of a proposed new
township development: traffic and
infrastructure, Medina, Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia
Aurecon was appointed for the pre-feasibility
master planning of transportation and
infrastructure services for Seerah Land, a
proposed township development in Medina,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Medina is the second
holiest city of Islam, after Mecca (Makkah). Like
Mecca, the city of Medina only permits Muslims
to enter. Both cities' numerous mosques are
the destination for large numbers of Muslims on
their annual pilgrimage. Hundreds of thousands
of Muslims come to Medina annually to worship
at these mosques in a unified celebration.
Seerah Lands planned population of 200 000
would comprise facilities to accommodate 100
000 short-term visitors or pilgrims. Unique
transportation requirements (moving 100 000
people between Seerah Land and the Holy
Mosque five times a day) led to multi-modal,
high capacity solutions.
Al Bundoquiya Island Development
near Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia
Aurecon recently completed the conceptual
design phase for a 21 million square metre,
mixed-use development along the Red Sea
coast, near Jeddah. Aurecons involvement
covered all technical disciplines, including
marine, traffic and environmental studies, bulk
services provision and internal service
reticulations and roads. Cost modelling and
feasibility studies were also being undertaken
by Aurecon.
Al Khor Beach Park and Bin Ghanim
Island Development, Qatar
With the opening up of Qatar to foreigners over
the last five years and with the discovery of the
large gas fields, the Emir of Qatar and his
government will be looking at developments for
the influx of foreign workers and also tourism.
One such development is the Al Khor Beach
Park and Bin Ghanim Island Development, 30
minutes drive from Doha and approximately 12
to 15km from the gas fields.
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of prime property next to a lagoon on the East
coast flowing into the Gulf. The development
consisted of 10 districts with two golf courses
one in district 3 and one in district 6. Aurecon
was approached to do a full services report for
this development, which included traffic
studies, road layouts, bulk water supply, water
storage, irrigation, stormwater drainages,
sewage disposal, gas supply reticulation,
electricity supply and recommendations for air
conditioning such as district cooling.
Lemnos Womens World
Development, Dubailand, Dubai
Dubailand is a new inland urban node within
the metropolitan area of Dubai. Lemnos
Womens World is situated on a 153 000m site
within the Dubailand precinct and includes a
200 bedroom hotel, 200 seat conference centre
and banqueting facilities, 20 000m retail, clinic
/ hospital 7 500m, and a health spa 5 000m.
(Total construction area 88 850m). This
facility is envisaged for the private use of
women in accordance with the Moslem belief.
Aurecon has done a preliminary services report
for the development and should be appointed
as the infrastructural, civil and structural
engineers upon approval of the project.
Master planning and cost estimates
for the Rabat Saphira Corniche
development, Morocco
Aurecon was appointed as Northpoints sub-
consultants on the Rabat Saphira Corniche
Development Master planning project. The
developer and client is the Dubai-based
company Emaar, represented by their
Moroccan branch. The development essentially
entails the urban master planning of the entire
11km of Rabats south-western coastline. The
area currently consists of 300ha of open and
degenerated pockets of land along the coastal
road that runs parallel to the Atlantic Ocean in
a south westerly direction. The proposed total
gross leasable area of development is more
than two million square metres.
Aurecon was tasked with providing the marine,
traffic, roads and infrastructure engineering
input to the urban planners in order to ensure
that the proposed development is protected
from the ocean, that proper access is provided
and that the development is well serviced by all
engineering services. The appointment
included initial studies and investigations into
marine erosion factors in order to establish safe
setback lines and edge protection measures,
traffic analysis through data gathering, road
network surveys and traffic modelling,
preliminary road geometry designs and bulk
infrastructure demand calculations and existing
bulk infrastructure capacity assessments.
Engineering Services for Saadiyat
Beach Resort, Saadiyat Island, Abu
Dhabi
The client, TDIC, has identified a unique
opportunity to develop a world-class resort on
the North Beach site of Saadiyat Island. The
development has been benchmarked to the St
Regis Hotel Monarch Beach in California
USA.
The project broadly consists of the following
components: A hotel complex with 400 keys,
food and beverage facilities, a spa, beach club,
beach facing restaurant, banqueting facilities,
conferencing facilities and other five-star
entertainment facilities. There are serviced
apartments (220 keys) and related public
circulation between the various components.
There are 30 upmarket luxury villas on-site with
an additional 75 villas on an adjacent site.
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Brisbane, Australia A$1 billion and the project was completed in
2008.
Kelvin Grove is Australias first masterplanned,
mixed-use development, integrating education,
residential, business, cultural and leisure
activities in an inner-city environment.

A joint venture between the Queensland

Government Department of Housing and
Queensland University of Technology, the
Village is an integrated community, using the
natural environment and sustainable resources.

As Principal Consultant, Aurecon was

responsible for advancing the masterplan
through to a local plan and producing the
design and documentation for the site.

In conjunction with the Department of Housing

and Brisbane City Council, the plan
endeavoured to create a mixed use/residential
precinct for retail, commercial, university
functions and accommodation with projects like
QUTs Creative Industry (a facility for students
research and training for start-up organisations
as well as for public attendance); merge social
with recreation, study with work and play; and
ultimately be open to a wide sector of the
community, including students, young
professionals, families and retirees. The project
was completed during 2003 and has won
various awards from the Association of
Consulting Engineers, Australia.

Darwin City Waterfront Stage 1

Marine & Community Infrastructure,
Darwin, Australia
The Darwin City Waterfront project is a
proposed development of the Kitchener Bay
area at the end of the Darwin CBD peninsula. It
is being delivered as a private-public-
partnership project by the Northern Territory
Government. The Waterfront project will
include the Darwin Convention & Exhibition
Centre, complementary hospitality, retail and
tourism facilities, residential developments,
commercial developments and community
infrastructure including a major water/pool
feature, marine infrastructure including a sea
wall and full waterfront access for public and

Municipal infrastructure for Coega
INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS
Industrial Zone 1, South Africa
The Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ)
is South Africas premier location for new
industrial investments. Located within the
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality, the
initiative is a multi-billion dollar industrial
development complex covering 28 000 acres
(11 000 hectares) and includes a deepwater
port. The project aims to position South Africa
as a platform for global exports by attracting
foreign and local investments in manufacturing
industries.
The Aurecon/Izizwe/Nzuza Joint Venture was
appointed as Engineer for the feasibility, design
and contract administration of municipal
services for industrial erven of Zone 1 (Port
Cluster) in the IDZ.
Zone 1 comprised 440ha of land and the
services lengths (roads, water) are some 33km
distance each. Phase 1 comprised the initial
bulk infrastructure with Stormwater detention
ponds, Sewer pump stations, Main access
roads, Traffic circles, Electrical substations and
Water main network.
Aurecon provided the following services:
Feasibility Investigation, Preliminary
Design and Phasing
Detailed Design and Construction
Drawings
Tender documentation and Adjudication
based on a Preferential Procurement
Policy
Contract Administration and Site
Monitoring
SMME Work packages and Job Creation
Risk Assessments and ISO 9002 Quality
Management System
Bahrain Financial Harbour municipal
services, Bahrain
The Bahrain Financial Harbour is a financial
sector-driven office development with a large
residential component and with conveniently
located retail and restaurant areas. It is located
on reclaimed land along King Faisal Highway in
Manama, opposite and within walking distance
of the city centre. Manama is the capital city of
the Kingdom of Bahrain Island, located in the
South Eastern corner of the Arabian Gulf.
Aurecon was appointed for the master
planning, detailed design, preparation of tender
documents as well as construction supervision
for the municipal services infrastructure for the
whole development. The infrastructure detailed
design comprised:
Four bridge structures of which the
longest is 120m
An irrigation network including pump
station and reservoir
A water distribution network
An electrical distribution network including
substations
A road network
A stormwater drainage system
A sewerage drainage system including
wastewater treatment works and pump
stations.
Noi Bai export processing zone,
Vietnam
Aurecon was appointed to assist the Noi Bai
Development Corporation in developing an
export processing zone at the Noi Bai
International Airport near Han Noi in Vietnam.
Aurecon was involved in the project from the
stage where liaison with local authorities
INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS regarding a service and operating agreement
took place, through to the detailed design of
civil, structural, electrical and mechanical
engineering works. The project also entailed
bulk earthworks and all network facilities,
including roads, stormwater, domestic water,
sewerage, electricity, telecommunications, fire
protection and internal computer
communication. The zone consists inter alia of
a 100ha industrial security zone, customer and
administration facilities, security container yard,
shuttle service, sewage treatment plant and
electrical substation and support facilities such
as shops, garages and access roads. The site
is located in an area previously covered with
rice paddies and the ground consists of
extremely clayey silt that necessitates
extensive geotechnical engineering designs for
each aspect of the project.
Shell field logistics bases
Aurecon was appointed by Murray & Roberts
and Prodeco for the detailed design of all
architectural, structural, MEP and municipal
and civil infrastructure for three fully self-
sufficient logistic centres for Shell in Nigeria.
Each centre consists of a three-storey
accommodation building and security building,
double-storey office and single-storey
recreation building, workshop and generator
buildings as well as its own water purification
plant, wastewater treatment works and power
generation plant. Detailed specifications for
subcontract works were provided as part of the
scope of service.
Services provided:
Structural engineering
Civil engineering
Municipal services design
HVAC services
Electrical services
Geotechnical investigations
Construction supervision
Ha Tikoe industrial estate, Lesotho
Aurecon was appointed by the Lesotho
National Development Corporation (LNDC) to
provide predevelopment services for a portion
of land of approximately 80ha, adjacent to the
Maseru bypass road. Aurecon was responsible
for developing this land into 91 serviced
industrial plots of various sizes. The
appointment included the drafting of a
subdivision layout, Environmental Impact
Assessment, as well as the design of roads
(approximately 5.5km), stormwater drainage,
2700kl water reservoir, water and sewer mains,
water and sewer reticulation,
telecommunications and bulk electricity supply.
Services provided:
Preliminary Report Stage
Feasibility Study
Engineering Design Study
Tender Stage
Construction Study
Completion Study
Post-construction Study
Mohales Hoek industrial estate
infrastructure
Aurecon was appointed to assist the Lesotho
National Development Corporation in providing
Infrastructure to its newly built industrial factory
shells. Aurecons involvement came about as
a rescue effort whereby a previous consultant
had been terminated. This meant that the
project had to be fast-tracked in order to meet
the original completion date. The first stage
involved the review of the completed designs
and tender drawings, leading to re-design of
most of the works. The works included
surfaced access roads within the estate, an all
weather gravel road along the outside
perimeter of the estate with a reinforced
concrete mini bridge; a dedicated water supply
pipeline for the estate and internal reticulation;
domestic and industrial sewer pipelines and
improvement of stormwater infrastructure.
The project is located north of Mohales Hoek
about 2km outside the CBD.
INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS Several additional works were requested by the
client as the project progressed and thus the
completion date was revised.
Services provided:
Review of design
Detailed re-design
Specifications
Construction supervision
Samrand mixed development site,
Gauteng, South Africa
Aurecon was appointed by the Malaysian
developer Samrand to assist in the planning,
design and construction supervision of a 700ha
mixed development in Centurion, South Africa.
The site is situated north of the premises of the
Development Bank of South Africa, alongside
the N1 highway. Apart from all geotechnical
investigations and design of conventional
municipal services, Aurecon also carried out
extensive traffic surveys and traffic engineering
studies.
The final development comprised the following:
Light industrial and commercial facilities
(258ha)
Office and commercial facilities (19ha)
Small-scale light industrial and
commercial facilities (39ha)
Residential golf estate (188ha)
Exhibition centre (40ha)
Service station (5ha)
Community centre (4ha)
Retail (14ha)
Hotel (2ha)
Flagship building (1ha)
Open space (70ha)
Also included in the project was the
construction of a new interchange from the N1
freeway. Aurecon was also appointed for, inter
alia, the detailed design and construction
supervision of the new interchange.
Century Business Park and Gateway
Industrial Park, Gauteng, SA
Aurecon was appointed as consulting
infrastructure engineers for the development of
Gateway Industrial Park and Century Business
Park adjacent to the N1 freeway between
Johannesburg and Pretoria, consisting of 95
industrial stands and 12 business stands.
The complete spectrum of engineering services
was provided, including the planning, design
and installation supervision of external link
services, project management, as well as
financial auditing and reporting. A large portion
of the township is underlain with dolomitic
ground conditions and extensive geotechnical
investigations were done to provide the
optimum civil designs.
The development included the design and
construction supervision of an off-ramp from
the N1 freeway, one of the busiest highways in
Africa, currently transporting approximately 19
000 vehicles a day.
The external services provision included:
A complete traffic impact study for the
region and off-ramp
Bulk water Supply
Outfall Sewer System
Electrical substation dedicated for the
development
Stormwater master plan for the region
Environmental impact assessment
Comprehensive geotechnical report for
the complete development area
Aurecon provided the following services:
Planning and feasibility study
Engineering design
INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS Installation supervision of external link
services
Project management
Financial auditing
Reporting
Construction supervision
The basic engineering design of the
860km Mozambique to Secunda
natural gas pipeline for Sasol
Aurecon, in association with Worley, was
appointed for the basic engineering design and
preparation of line pipe procurement and
construction RFQ documentation for the
Mozambique to Secunda Natural Gas Pipeline
Project.
The Project further included the managing of
third-party Contracts including the Demining,
EIA, Route Survey and Servitude negotiation
and ROW in ROM.
The approximate length of the pipeline is
860km (340km in RSA and 520km in
Mozambique). The pipeline will be a 26
(600mm) diameter continuous welded line with
a design pressure rating of ANSI 900 (MAOP of
12,6 Mpag).
The project included the compiling of P&IDs,
Route alignment drawings, GA drawings, Site
Layout Plans, various Reports, Design and
Control Philosophies and also a HAZOP study
and Report.
The project further included the sizing of the
pipeline and all the associated valves and
equipment, the material selections, technical
specifications, data sheets and the compilation
of valve, equipment and instrumentation
schedules.
The pipeline and all associated equipment
have been designed in accordance to the
relevant and applicable Sasol, SABS, ASME,
API and other International specifications.
Description of services provided:
Project Management
Process Design
Mechanical Design
Electrical Design
Drafting Services
HAZOP Facilitation
Documentation Services
The basic engineering design of the
Secunda in-plant piping from the
pressure protection station (PPS) up
to unit 42 as part of the Mozambique
to Secunda natural gas pipeline
project for Sasol
Aurecon, in association with Worley, was
appointed for the basic engineering design for
the Secunda In-Plant Pipeline from the
Pressure Protection Station (PPS), situated in
the secondary area, up to Unit 42, situated in
the primary area of the Sasol factory at
Secunda, South Africa, as part of the
Mozambique to Secunda Natural Gas Project.
The In-Plant piping comprised of approximately
4km of ANSI 300, 600mm-diameter continuous
welded pipe which conveys the gas from the
PPS to Unit 42 with two take-off points inside
the factory along the route and a connection to
the factory flare.
The project included the compiling of P&IDs
and Isometric pipe route drawings.
The project further included the sizing of the
pipe, the material selection and specification of
the In-Plant pipes. The In-Plant piping has
been designed in accordance to the relevant
and applicable SASOL, National and
International specifications.
Description of Services Provided:
Mechanical Design
Drafting Services
Documentation Services
INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS ALBA coke calcining plant: Bahrain, certain Pachuca walkways and conveyor gantry
Persian Gulf structures to the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine. The
purposes of the report was to re-evaluate the
Aurecon was involved in the construction of a condition of certain structures in the above
green coke calcining facility and a seawater areas by means of visual inspection with a view
desalination plant in Bahrain (year 2000). The to identifying those elements that, according to
plant is situated on reclaimed land on the island our opinion and experience, needed remedial
of Sitra, near Bahrains main island, and is work to eliminate the risk of collapse, and to
designed to produce 450 000 tons of calcined extend the safe service life of the elements and
coke a year. Green coke refers to the solid the structures they form part of.
substance that remains once coal gas and coal
tar have been extracted from coal. The green
coke is then heated to remove all water and
impurities, leaving an end product, white coke
or graphite, which is used as a catalyst in the
manufacture of aluminium. The waste heat
generated by this process will be used to
produce desalinated seawater at a rate of
43M a day, for export to the Bahrain public
water network.

Aurecon has also been involved in the project,
designing some extremely challenging
structures, among which, a group of cantilever
retaining walls tapering to a height of 23m for
the Green Coke Storage Building. Aurecon
has also been involved in the detailed design of
the Potable Water Tank Foundation. In
redesigning the aforementioned, Aurecon
effected a saving through value engineering.
The group was subsequently appointed to
assist with the detailed design of the
desalination plant foundations and the
seawater outfall, and the redesign of the four
calcined coke silos. A numerical analysis of a
limited part of the building structure was
performed using the finite element programme
Pafec. The dynamic analysis calculated the
natural frequencies and mode shapes, and the
steady state response was calculated using a
range of forcing frequencies.
Hartebeestfontein Gold Mine: No. 2
shaft gold, acid and south plants as
well as portions of Buffelsfontein
plant for Durban Roodepoort Deep,
Limited
Structural evaluation report of numerous
structures to the No. 2 Shaft, Gold, Acid and
South Plant at the Hartebeestfontein Gold
Mine. The report includes an overview of
Woolworths Distribution Centre:
Cape Town, South Africa
This 28 000m facility serves as the Regional
Distribution Centre for Woolworths, a major
South African retailer. Aurecon provided
structural and civil engineering input for the
complex.
The buildings are conventional steel structures
with freezer rooms, chilled areas, peri-ambient
rack storage areas, clothing stores and tray-
wash areas. The office portion is a
conventional reinforced concrete structure.
The floors vary from epoxy treated areas for
food preparation to conventional power floated
concrete, with and without surface hardeners.
Racking aisles are wide-bay with rack heights
limited to 10m.
Woolworths Distribution Centre:
Gauteng, South Africa
This new 87 000m Gauteng Distribution
Centre for Woolworths will serve the entire
country outside the Western and Eastern Cape.
(Woolworths is a major South African retailer
focussed predominantly on food and textiles.)
Aurecon is the structural, civil, geotechnical
and transportation engineers for the project. A
major earthworks contract is needed to create
a level platform 1,0km long. The main building
INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS has concrete columns and a structural steel
roof with clear internal spans of 40m. Wide
racking aisles and a 12,5m racking height are
being used with FM2 floor tolerances as per
Concrete Society TR 34. Freezer room areas,
chilled areas, peri-ambient and ambient
storage areas are being provided as well as a
tray-wash area. External aprons are a
combination of concrete surface beds and
interlocking pavers.
Nasionale Pers printing facility,
Johannesburg, South Africa
Scope of Work: Structural Engineering design
and supervision, external works.
The Printing Press facility features a Paper
Store, Press Hall, Mail Room and office area.
External steel portal members were required in
the Press Hall to achieve the headroom
requirements within the height restraints of the
site. The Press Hall features 40t and 5t
overhead cranes. Paper delivery and dispatch
takes place under 10m and 8m cantilever
canopies. The Printing Press is installed on a
reinforced concrete press table structure
constructed to high tolerance requirements. A
dynamic analysis was performed on the 45m
long press table.
Alusaf Hillside and Bayside gas
treatment centres, Richards Bay,
South Africa
Scope of work:
Structural Engineering design and
supervision.
Gas treatment centres formed part of the works
for the Alusaf Hillside and Bayside smelter
projects. Aurecon was appointed to design the
structures with a dimension of approximately
35 x 26m and a height of 25m. The design
included all structural steelwork components of
the predominantly steel framed structure. The
design included support trestles, supporting
ducting towards and away from the buildings,
the supporting structure for a 600t silo, and an
approximately 55m high stack.
Atlantis Witzands, hospital and
Melkbos pump stations, Cape Town,
South Africa
Services performed for the Atlantis Witzands
and Hospital Pump Stations consisted of
dynamic and static analyses of pump and
motor bases. Analyses of the pump and motor
footings were completed for the pump-motor
combinations envisaged by the client. These
combinations for the Atlantis Witzands Pump
Station are as follows:
WL-200-6 pump and FDI-3710 motor (575
kW)
WL-200-4 pump and FDI-3709 motor (410
kW)
The results of analyses were evaluated against
vibration standards to obtain acceptable
service levels. Large horizontal pipe forces
played an important role in the sizing of the
elements. For the Melkbos Pump Station, a
transformer plinth for two 1MVA transformers,
and a pump and motor footing for a 300kW 4-
pole motor with a KSB Omega 300-435A pump
were designed. Similar dynamic and static
analyses, as for the Atlantis Witzands project,
were performed for the pump and motor
footings. Other design work included a 12m
high steel radio mast inclusive of concrete
base.
INDUSTRIAL PROJECTS Iscor, Richards Bay smelter feed
conveyor, South Africa
A structural steel design for the conveyor
support structure was previously performed by
other consultants but the client had since
changed certain design parameters and
requested an audit on the static and dynamic
design. Spans of the conveyor gantries varied
from 18 to 35m, and the evaluation included a
21m high take-up tower and trestles. A static
load check was performed, which confirmed
that the design was acceptable. A dynamic
analysis (using the software PROKON) was
also carried out to evaluate the dynamic effect
of the conveyor belt. Natural frequencies
calculated ranged from 2.2Hz to 8.4Hz for
different span configurations.
Foschini carton store, Cape Town,
South Africa
The 2 400m warehouse has an internal clear
height of 15m beneath the trusses with no
internal support columns. Four 2.5m girders
spanning 35m were used to support the
secondary arched trusses, which have a span
of 9m. The aisles were constructed to super
flat standards with levels along the wheel
tracks measured to an accuracy of 0.1mm.
The racking is 15m high.
Ilmenite storage and reclaiming
facility, Empangeni, KwaZulu-Natal,
South Africa
Aurecon was subcontracted by Eskom
Materials handling to design a structure to store
27 000t dry ilmenite. Ilmenite is a heavy metal
with a density of 3ton/m, that is used as a
base ingredient to give materials a white
colour. The structure proposed was a
prestressed cylindrical concrete wall with a
diameter of 34,5m and wall height of 17m. The
150mm thick reinforced concrete roof dome,
rising 5,28m, supports a 14t internal stacking
conveyor and a 30t external feeder conveyor. A
4m wide x 3m high access door was provided
for emergency loading operations. A 3,3 x 3,3m
reclaiming tunnel was positioned in the centre
of the storage facility. One of the design
parameters was an asymmetric loading on the
wall. Due to this loading condition and the
density of the material, a 3D finite element
analysis was carried out to determine wall
stresses and deflections.
Izone Business Park, Rolleston, New
Zealand
The Izone business development is an initiative
of the Selwyn District Council to provide an
employment centre in the district, in close
proximity to the fastest-growing residential area
in the district (Rolleston).
Aurecon was initially engaged to assist with the
rezoning of the rural site purchased by Selwyn
District Council to enable the business park to
become a reality. Following the successful
rezoning of the property Aurecon was engaged
to gain all necessary consents to enable the
site to be developed.
These have included various subdivision, land
use and discharge consents. We completed all
survey and design tasks to enable
development blocks to be created. Throughout
the project Aurecon has carried out the project
management of the zoning and land
development components of the project. The
Selwyn District Councils foresight has been
rewarded with a high take-up rate of property
within the development which in turn is
generating local employment opportunities for
residents.
AIRPORT PROJECTS Extensions and upgrading of the
international terminals at OR Tambo
International Airport, South Africa
The growth in international traffic required that
the International Terminals of OR Tambo
International Airport be upgraded. The project
started in 1996 with the upgrading and
extension by some 75m to the north of the
existing terminal building. This entailed the
construction of a basement, arrivals and
departure levels, mezzanine levels and roof
offices as well as the addition of three holding
lounge nodes that extended some 40m onto
the airside apron. During the full duration of
the construction works, the terminal was kept
operational and all tenants had to be
accommodated. A baggage sorter was
installed as well as 102 check-in desks with
three new baggage carousels in the arrivals
hall.
This project was later extended to the south by
demolishing the old existing domestic terminal
building and replacing it with a new central
terminal building some 225m long by 70m wide
with a double basement for baggage handling
and six floor levels above.
The first part of the project, ie the extension to
the north and onto the apron, was completed
successfully within time and budget despite the
changing nature of the client requirements. A
large portion of the works included a retail
component with changing commercial tenant
requirements that had to be accommodated up
to a very late stage. The planning of the
internal operations during the refurbishment of
the landside and airside facilities proved to be a
challenging task but was carried out
successfully. Aurecon was responsible for the
structural support work for the baggage
handling system in the double basement, the
atrium roof lights, all the faade steelwork, and
the wet services within the central terminal
building. Additionally, Aurecon was also
responsible for the HVAC design up to the
tender stage. High priority was given
throughout to keep the airport a neat and safe
environment in order for the public not to
experience it as a construction site.
Kruger Mpumalanga International
Airport, South Africa
Construction of the airport started in May 2001
and was completed in July 2002. The airport is
located in mountainous terrain and massive
earthworks have been undertaken. Fill heights
of 22m and cuts of 17m in height characterised
the airport upon completion. The facilities
provided at the airport included a CFR station,
terminal building, general aviation area, hotel
and vehicle parking area. The airport has a
concrete apron that can accommodate three
wide-bodied aircraft; while water and sewerage
treatment is to be done on-site. Aurecon will
also be responsible for construction supervision
in terms of provision of three full-time resident
engineers and a complete engineering
materials laboratory located on-site.
Services:
Planning of all airport infrastructure
Value engineering exercises for private
developer to ensure optimum design
Pavement design
Airside infrastructure geometric design
Access road and parking area design
Bulk services design
Geotechnical design for earthworks
Terminal building services design
AIRPORT PROJECTS Preliminary design and feasibility
study for a cargo centre at Entebbe
International Airport, Uganda
Aurecon, in association with SAA Cargo and
PA Kagimu & Partners, was appointed to
conduct a preliminary design and feasibility
study for the new cargo centre at Entebbe
International Airport, Uganda. After cargo
volumes had been forecasted, facility
requirements were established, both in terms of
size and number. The preliminary design
consisted of the planning and design of the
following elements:
Cargo Apron and Taxiways
Dry Cargo Building (for perishables as
well as dry goods)
Truck offloading area, vehicle parking
area and roads
Freight forwarder buildings
Cold Storage Facilities
Architectural elevations were produced and
engineering designs were carried out in
sufficient detail to warrant accurate cost
estimates. Additionally, a pavement
investigation was done to ensure correct
positioning of the facility. An economic and
financial appraisal was performed in parallel to
the design to reveal the viability of the
proposed centre. The mentioned appraisal
ensured cost-effective designs and where
necessary, recommendations regarding
phasing were done.
OR Tambo International Airport
multi-storey parkade, South Africa
The parkade comprised five parking levels with
each level having a footprint of approximately
200,0m x 135,5m. The total construction area
was approximately 135 000m and comprised
of the following:
surface bed
four suspended floors
lightweight structural steel roof
The total number of parking bays provided is
approximately 4 100. A parking module of
17,0m was adopted with the typical parking bay
being 5,0m long by 2,5m wide and the
driveway width being 7,0m wide.
A structural column grid of 8,5m x 7,5m was
chosen as a result of arker and was recessed
750mm into the parking bay to provide a more
comfortable turning circle.
A 220mm thick post-tensioned flat slab, with
tapered circular column heads on internal
columns only, was chosen for the typical
parking suspended floors due to the following
advantages:
cost-efficient
earlier removal of support work ie fast-
track construction
thinner slab depths.
As there was a severe shortage of parking, the
first floor slab was designed as a prop-free
slab. In this way, once the support work was
removed, parking could be immediately made
available, with construction work proceeding
above on the upper floors without the need for
backpropping.
Vertical vehicle circulation was provided in the
form of two circular ramps, comprising an
internal circular concrete drum, outer circular
columns and a post-tensioned flat slab. Each
of the ramps provided dedicated ingress and
egress at each floor level. In order to prevent
excessive shortening of the concrete due to
shrinkage and prestressing, the building was
split into twelve panels. Maximum panel size
was limited to 45m x 34m. The joint detail
between panels consisted of a butt joint in the
slab, with the faces bitumen coated to act as a
bond breaker, and a steel cover plate welded to
cast-in angles. In order to prevent water
ingress into the joint, the joints were slightly
raised and all steelwork was galvanised for
corrosion protection. A lightweight structural
steel roof was provided over the entire parking
garage comprising of angle and circular trusses
spanning between 8,5m and 25,5m. Profile of
the roofs was curved with use being made of
stainless cable stays to provide both structural
support and attractive features to the roof.
AIRPORT PROJECTS New terminal building, parking
facilities and apron extensions for
Lanseria International Airport, South
Africa
Since being allocated international status, the
scope for growth at Lanseria Airport has
increased dramatically. In order to
accommodate the projected increase in
passengers and larger aircraft movements, the
airport has embarked on a process of
upgrading and expansion. This project entailed
the development of an on grade parking area,
relocation of a large number of existing
services, development of a new 9 500m
terminal building, demolition of the existing
terminal building and the rehabilitation and
extension of the existing concrete apron.
Aurecon was also appointed to provide certain
airport planning input such as the preparation
of the terminal layout in terms of passenger
and baggage handling, as well as the
preparation of the overall apron scheme
surrounding the new terminal building. The
terminal building consists of a 1 800m
basement accommodating the baggage
handling facility, plant rooms and various store
rooms. The remainder of the building (7
700m) accommodates the terminal activities,
offices, airline lounges and retail areas.
Aurecon was also responsible for the
construction supervision of all related works.
Design of extension of the SAFAIR
freighter facility at OR Tambo
International Airport
Aurecon was appointed to provide structural
and civil engineering services for the extension
of an existing facility used for the maintenance
of a fleet of C130 (Hercules) aircraft. The
extension made provision for a concrete aircraft
parking apron for five DC8 type aircraft stands
and two hangars to accommodate the same
aircraft type.
Walk-through service tunnels between existing
and new hangars as well as under floor ducts
at the new hangars were also provided. A
wash bay was equipped with an oil separator
and the facility also included a new office block
and employees parking area with the carports
and shade nets. A new spare parts store also
formed part of the extension.
All construction work was done whilst the main
facility was fully operational.
Design for the new domestic
terminal building for the Sydney
Domestic Airport, Sydney, New
South Wales
The new domestic terminal building for Qantas
at Sydneys Mascot Airport involved many
engineering challenges. The building provides
ten aircraft gates, separate departures and
arrival hall, a new Qantas Club facility seating
over 750 and an international passenger
transfer lounge. Innovative engineering
solutions and careful staging have produced a
highly successful facility constructed with
minimal disruption to passenger services.
Aurecon designed an innovative foundation
system, including the use of high-level pad
footings in the sands and clays and short
length piles in other areas. The buildings take
into account expected large settlements
caused by the very poor ground conditions. A
feature of the work is the use of advanced
engineering techniques to create ultra-long
span post-tensioned concrete structures,
allowing large column free areas within the
AIRPORT PROJECTS terminal. The spans range in length to 21
metres, a rarity in building design. A steel
structure featuring innovation in engineering
and detailing creates a dramatic departures
hall which is not only very aesthetic but highly
economical when compared to conventionally
engineered structures. The client was Qantas
Airways Limited.

Design, management and

construction supervision for
Melbourne Airport, Melbourne,
Victoria
In preparation for the A380 runway, Aurecon
was commissioned to undertake the planning,
design and documentation, project
management and construction supervision for
the 16/34 runway lighting upgrade works
associated with the runway widening. The
airport lighting upgrade and replacement
works consisted of: relocation of the runway
edge lighting from the existing positions to new
positions at the edge of the new pavement;
upgrading of the runway centreline and edge
lighting to provide high-intensity lighting
information for both runway approaches;
construction of two concrete beams (full
runway width) for the installation of the new
and upgraded high-intensity runway threshold
and runway end lighting; and upgrading of the
taxiway centreline lighting at the
taxiway/runway intersections to comply with
the new international airport lighting standards.
Additionally, the airport lighting upgrade
comprised provision of additional taxiway
centreline lights to enable the complete
taxiway lighting system to be upgraded to
comply with the operational requirements of
Category III operations; relocation and
alignment of the taxiway information and
guidance signs to conform with current runway
clearance standards; construction of a new pit
and duct system for the airport lighting
primary/secondary cables and isolating
transformers; and replacement of the existing
aged cables and transformers and installation
of new equipment into the new pit and duct
system. The project was completed on time
and within budget and won an Association of
Consulting Engineers Australia's award.
ROAD PROJECTS Lagos infrastructure project - toll
road development - feasibility, pre-
feasibility studies and detailed
design (57km), Nigeria
The Lagos Infrastructure Project consists of a
number of new and existing roads that have to
be developed and operated as tolled facilities.
The phenomenal growth in vehicle ownership
and the deterioration of the existing roads are
leading to tremendous congestion and delays,
which can be successfully alleviated by a tolled
system. The capital investment will exceed
US$ 350 million and accurate feasibility
studies, traffic projections, willingness to pay,
information and accurate cost estimates were
required.
The project entailed two phases, a feasibility
study phase and detailed design phase. The
feasibility study phase comprised the
compilation of technical and financial reports
that had to be audited by the project tenders in
order to determine or substantiate the viability
of the project. The detailed design phase
entailed the detailed design of a toll road
network and the provision of all relevant
services up to the tender stage of the project
process.
Rehabilitation of 62km of Kawempe -
Luwero Road, Uganda
The project consisted of the reseal and
rehabilitation of 60km of existing surfaced road
between Kawempe and Luwero, just North of
Kampala.
Interventions will mainly consist of rehabilitation
of failed road sections; periodic maintenance
(reseal with single bituminous surface
treatment or overlay with asphalt concrete);
shoulder rehabilitation; reinstatement and lining
of side drains; restoration of road markings and
furniture; as well as preparatory works of
pothole and base repairs.
Detailed design a supervision of the
rehabilitation of the Cala-Humbo
Road (22km), Angola
The existing 21km road was upgraded to a 9m
wide surfaced road from the original 6m wide
surfacing. Drainage culverts were widened or
replaced and one bridge was widened. The
other bridge on the route was destroyed and
required complete reconstruction.
The heavy traffic in the area and the very poor
condition of the existing pavement necessitated
the re-working of the existing base; a selected
layer and a new base and sub-base layer was
imported.
London Road - Canning Road to
Louis Both Avenue Phase 2, South
Africa
The existing road of 2km is to be upgraded to a
divided four-lane, dual carriageway urban
arterial. Aurecon did the detailed design,
contract documentation and the tender
process. The supervision was being done by
Aurecon. Construction commenced in 2004.
The accommodation of traffic during
construction received special attention since
the road is a major link to Alexandra.
Contract for the consultancy
services for supervision of the
rehabilitation works of 34.7km of
road between Lusaka and Chirundu
(escarpment section), Zambia
The project is approximately 34,7km in length,
and consists of the widening of the existing
road formation to allow for a cross-section
geometry of 2 x 3,5m lanes and 2 x 2m
surfaced shoulders. Auxiliary / climbing lanes
will be constructed where required, and in the
sections of high cut or fill, the shoulder width
will be reduced. The reconstructed road will be
surfaced using asphalt concrete. Bridges on
the project section will be reconstructed by
replacing the entire structure or the deck only
where vertical alignment remains unaltered.
Construction of the interim four-lane
urban freeway on National Route 17
Section 1 between Rosettenville and
the Elands Interchanges
The Mooi Street link into the city centre of
Johannesburg (the Commercial gateway into
Africa) was also constructed under this
Contract, as well as two new toll plazas and
ROAD PROJECTS extensions to an existing toll plaza. A major
challenge was a 1 million m cutting through an
existing mine dump adjacent to the ecologically
sensitive Wemmer pan area with associated
stability and geotechnical problems. The total
length of the freeway was 8km, but the
project also included distribution and dual
carriageway cross roads of 12km, as well as
ramps. The total equivalent single carriageway
was 60km.
Independent Engineer for the N4
Platinum Toll Highway, South Africa,
2000
Aurecon was appointed to act as Independent
Engineer on the Platinum Toll Highway, which
includes the portion of the N1 between Pretoria
and Bela-Bela, as well as the N4 between
Pretoria and Skilpadhek on the border with
Botswana.
As Independent Engineer, the duties of the
Aurecon included coordinating the tender
process, advising on a preferred bidder,
auditing preliminary and detailed designs,
including various engineering disciplines,
environmental aspects and socio-economic
development, reviewing construction control,
including review of an Incident Management
System (IMS), Management Information
System (MIS), Quality Assurance, Toll
systems, Operation and Maintenance,
Financial auditing and legal issues. Services
included:
Reviewing preliminary and detailed
designs
Reviewing environmental aspects
Socio-economic development
Reviewing construction quality control,
including review and audit of an Incident
Management System (IMS), Management
Information system (MIS) and Quality
Assurance
Toll systems operation and maintenance
Financial auditing
Reviewing legal issues
BOT Project for the upgrading and
maintenance of the National Route 3
from Heidelberg to Villiers
This was the initial part of a major project to
extend, upgrade and maintain the dual
carriageway National Route 3 (N3), which is an
important route between Gauteng and
KwaZulu-Natal. The initial three-year
construction period requires substantial
rehabilitation and construction work to improve
the quality and safety of the route. Work during
this period entailed:
Dualling the undivided section of the road
from Heidelberg to Villiers
Upgrading the parallel provincial road
Constructing three new toll plazas
Rehabilitating various sections of the road
Services:
Preliminary and detailed design
Traffic studies
Toll strategy
Documentation
Rehabilitation
Detailed design and construction of
Nelson Mandela Drive, South Africa
Nelson Mandela Drive provides a north-south
access through the centre of the Pretoria CBD.
The road, which consists of a 3,6km four-
lane dual carriageway and 2,5km of linked
roads forms part of Pretoria's major road
network.
The design had to provide for phased
construction in order to allow for normal traffic
flow during the construction stages. Three
major road-over-river and one road-over-road-
and-river bridge was included. Aurecon was
also responsible for the construction
supervision services of this project. Services
included:
Traffic counts and predictions
Geometric design
Pavement design
Structural design
Contract documentation
ROAD PROJECTS Environmental issues and mitigation
Tender evaluation and recommendations
Gateway Bridge, Brisbane,
Queensland
This bridge crosses the Brisbane River with a
260 metre prestressed concrete balanced
cantilever box girder main span which at the
time of construction was a world record for this
type of construction. The total length of the
bridge is 1.6 kilometres including ten approach
spans on the northern side and five on the
southern side of the river. The bridge contains
60,000 cubic metres of concrete.
The Gateway Bridge won numerous
engineering awards for design excellence in
Australia and overseas from professional
institutes such as the Institution of Engineers
Australia, Association of Consulting Engineers
Australia, the Concrete Institute of Australia,
the Illuminating Engineers Society of Australia
and the Institute of Structural Engineers (United
Kingdom).
by the RTA had crossed over the Eastern
Distributor and exited into the western end of
the Kings Cross Tunnel. Despite being 30m
deeper and 300m longer, the alternative was
successful as it eliminated the challenge of
mixing several hundred metres of cut-and-
cover construction with the heavily trafficked
William Street. Also, by incorporating larger
radii and tunnel widening on curves, the line of
sight and stopping distances were improved
thus permitting the design speed to generally
increase from 70kph to 80kph.
Extensive road design on the surface was
required for the complete re-configuration of
the streetscapes between property boundaries
at Druitt St, Harbour St, Sir John Young
Cresent, Bayswater Rd and William St/Park St.
While the impact of portals was often the
fundamental cause of change, the opportunity
presented by the removal of traffic and
prospect of starting with a new canvass
allowed the application of a high standard of
urban design and landscaping finish.

South East Busway and Transit

Lanes, Brisbane, Queensland
Aurecon assisted Queensland Transport to
develop a more viable transport system for the
south-eastern suburbs of Brisbane with a
Busway between Brisbanes Central Business
District ad Springwood, and Transit Lanes
between Mt Gravatt and the Logan Motorway.

Aurecon provided Queensland Transport with

diverse services for several sections of
Brisbanes South East Busway. These included
environmental and consultation services,
preliminary design, detailed design and design
review.
Cross City Tunnel, Sydney New South Wales
This unique project consists of dual tunnels
running east-west beneath Sydneys CBD with
connecting tunnels to the Eastern Distributor
and other surface roads.

Aurecon undertook the winning tender design

with an adopted alignment that was a
successful alternative that passes under the
Eastern Distributor tunnel and exits east of
Kings Cross. The original alignment proposed
RAILWAY PROJECTS Gautrain Rapid Rail Link, South
Africa
The Gautrain Rapid Rail Link is a state-of-the-
art rapid rail network planned in Gauteng. The
rail connection comprises of two links, namely
a link between Tshwane (Pretoria) and
Johannesburg and a link between OR Tambo
International Airport and Sandton. Aurecon, in
consortium with Halcrow Holdings Limited, a
UK-based infrastructure consultancy with
extensive experience in segmental
construction, was appointed in May 2006 by
the Bombela Civil Joint Venture for detailed
design package 6A of the Gautrain Rapid Rail
Link.
Major design items include viaducts, retaining
structures, earthworks, geotechnical designs,
overpasses, parking areas, utilities, electrical
and mechanical items, and landscaping
Design and supervision of the
drainage remedial works and
compaction grouting at the
Centurion Railway Station, South
Africa
The Centurion Station is situated in the
Lyttleton area, underlain by Dolomites, and part
of the Metros mainline to Johannesburg.
Sinkhole development occurred along a 3km
section of the mainline in the Centurion Station
area during the rainy season of 2003. The
dolomite ground conditions and the risk of
sinkhole development in this area was reduced
by a compaction grouting, drainage and track
improvement contract to control surface water
infiltration in the area of the site. Major design
items included:
Compaction grouting within the track
footprint totalling 162 boreholes and 1 848
cubic meters of grout material placed
Reconstruction of the tracks next to
platforms 1 and 4 with a ballastless track
system.
Perway drainage including surface and
subsurface
Pipe Jacking under existing lines
Reconstruction of existing parking facilities
Construction of new ablution block
Basic engineering design for the rail
transportation of coal from Moatize
to Nacala Port, Mozambique
Rio Doce's, Mozambique, embarked on a Basic
Engineering Design or Bankability Feasibility
Study (BFS) for the Rail Transportation of Coal
from Moatize coal field in the Tete Province
through Malawi to the Nacala Port. The study
was performed to transport 12 million tons of
coal per year. The total length of the Nacala
route is 980km with 185km of new track from
the Moatize Mine to Lirangwe where the new
line joins the existing line in Malawi. The
existing lines, both in Malawi and Mozambique,
are in a fairly poor condition carrying only a few
hundred thousand tons of traffic per year and
major upgrading design was required. A
financial analysis was performed to evaluate
the CAPEX and OPEX. The design scope
included:
Route investigations study and trackwork
Railway bridges and culverts
Two tunnels of approximately 1km
Signalling and telecommunications
Rail wagons
Traction power simulations
Train operations simulations
Buildings, machinery and equipment
End point terminals and maintenance
depots
RAILWAY PROJECTS Organisational Model for Human
Resources
Project Execution Plan (PEP)
Operations Management Plan (OMP)
Health and Safety Management Plan
(HSMP)
Underground track geometry
measurements, South Africa
Underground track geometry measurements
were taken at a number of Anglo Platinums
mines in the North-west Province area
(Amandlebult, Rustenburg and Townlands).
The purpose of the study was to measure the
basic track geometry condition of their
underground railways and to compare the
results to the current SANS 0339:2000
standards.
The Track Quality Measurement (TQM)
machine was used for the measurements. The
measurements were analysed and workplaces
were identified for the maintenance crew.
Light rail transit (system II), Kuala
Lumpur
The Government of Malaysia awarded a Build-
Operate-Transfer (BOT) concession for a 29km
light rail transit network traversing the city of
Kuala Lumpur, consisting of 24 stations. A
small portion of the route was to be constructed
at grade, 22km was to be elevated (pre-cast
segmental construction) and 4km underground
(bored tunnels, as well as cut-and-cover
sections). The project was implemented in two
sections, with a total construction cost of about
US$ 800 million. Aurecon's client, Pengurusan
LRT Sdn Bhd, was appointed by the
concession holder to be project manager for
both sections. Aurecon seconded 13
expatriate staff members to the project
management team. Other expatriates were
provided by Bechtel. Services included:
Construction Supervision
Cost Control
Contract Administration
Design Audit/Review and Management
Quality Assurance
Typical side platform station
Basic planning of commuter railway
stations on the Pretoria - Mabopane
Railway Line, South Africa
The recent rapid urban development of the
Klip/Kruisfontein area between Soshanguve
and Akasiaboom stations on the Pretoria -
Mabopane Rail Line has resulted in increased
commuter demand for additional stations in this
area. Five additional commuter station sites
have been identified. The purpose of this
project was to conduct the basic planning for
the five new proposed commuter rail stations.
The basic planning information included the
study area, area of influence as well as
documenting the methodologies and design
philosophies pursued in estimating the
commuter rail profiles, station infrastructure,
intermodal facility requirements and final
positions of all five proposed commuter rail
stations. The basic planning phase also
captured the interaction of the station with its
environs and attempted to integrate the station
with the surrounding urban fabric.
Djibouti - Ethiopia railway line -
minimum rail safety work
Design and tender document preparation for
relaying of 114km track, sleepers and ballast
including strengthening of 49 existing bridges.
New tracks will replace 100 year old 20kg/m
rails and steel sleepers, and will consist of
40kg/m rails and concrete sleepers on 1075
m/km ballast. The eroded existing
embankment will be widened and a sub-ballast
layer added. 49 steel bridges will be
strengthened or replaced to increase the safe
load capacity from 14 ton to 17 ton. Services
provided included:
Detailed design of railway and bridge
rehabilitation
Materials design for formation upgrading
Tender documents, quantities and cost
estimates
Tender process and evaluation
WATER PROJECTS Olifantsvlei wastewater treatment
works, Johannesburg, South Africa
This 100 M/d extension as well as extensive
refurbishment of existing treatment units was at
its time the largest single wastewater treatment
contract in South Africa. Aurecon was the lead
consultant and responsible for all aspects of
the project utilising sub-consultants for
architecture and landscaping only.
The processes utilised for this project have
been developed jointly with the client based on
extensive research and development, the units
have already been commissioned and it can be
stated that the effluent standards exceed those
predicted. In general, the effluent Standards
are COD - less than 75 mg/l, suspended solids
- less than 20 mg/l, nitrate - less than 5 mg/l,
and phosphates - less than 1 mg/l.
Athlone wastewater treatment
facility - Cape Town, South Africa
Aurecon is one of three consultants appointed
by the Cape Metropolitan Council to refurbish
and extend its Athlone Wastewater Treatment
Works. This ongoing project is currently one of
the largest wastewater treatment projects in
South Africa. It involves the total refurbishing
of an ageing facility and its extension to enable
it to treat a 120 M/d at a higher standard which
includes nutrient removal (phosphate and
nitrate removal). In South Africa, the current
tendency is increasingly for enhanced effluent
standards forcing this country to be known as a
leader regarding process design for achieving
enhanced sewage effluent standards.
KwaMashu wastewater treatment
works, Durban, South Africa
The KwaMashu Wastewater Treatment Works,
with a capacity of treating 70 M/d, had to be
extended. As a result of the investigations and
process analysis performed by Aurecon, the
additionally required 15 M/d treatment
capacity could be provided by removing the
bottlenecks in the existing works. This resulted
in saving costs of approximately USD 5,5
million. The works entailed improvements to
the inlet works, which had to be extended to
accept the additional flow. The major gain in
treatment capacity was achieved by improving
the efficiency of the secondary settling tanks,
which allowed the system to be operated at
higher sludge concentrations, and thus a higher
biological load. The works is presently under
construction, but it has to remain in operation at
all times. This requires detailed planning and
strict project control.
Zeekoegat water care works,
Pretoria, South Africa
Planning, civil and structural design, electrical
and mechanical design, project documentation
and the construction supervision for this
nutrient removal activated sludge wastewater
treatment facility was done by Aurecon. The
Zeekoegat wastewater treatment works has a
treatment capacity of 30 M/d and treated
effluent must comply with the Special Standard
for Discharge, a requirement set by the
Department of Water Affairs and Forestry as a
result of the location of the facility close to a
nature reserve. This location of the facility also
required architectural and landscaping design
to create an aesthetically acceptable
appearance for the facility. The facility has
been designed with the requirement for an
extension in mind. This future extension will
WATER PROJECTS double the capacity of the existing works, which
was completed in 1988.
Gammams wastewater treatment
works, Windhoek, Namibia
Aurecon was appointed to extend the
Gammams Wastewater Treatment Works near
Windhoek in Namibia. Aurecon provided all
consultancy services for this project, including
process design, civil and structural design,
electrical, mechanical and instrumentation
design, project documentation, construction
supervision and contract management. The
works was extended to increase the treatment
capacity from 17 M/d to 30 M/d, and the
design had to provide for the fact that the
existing works had to remain in operation
during the construction of the extension.
The treatment facility uses a nutrient removal
activated sludge process, and the design
provided for the construction of a primary
sedimentation tank, extension of the existing
biological reactor, and construction of three
secondary sedimentation tanks, several pump
stations, various ancillary buildings, as well as
access roads and pipelines. Construction
started in 1992 and the work was completed at
the end of 1993.
Mayflower water treatment works,
Empuluzi, South Africa
Aurecon was responsible for the total design of
this water treatment facility. It treats 8,6 M/d
by means of slow sand filtration with partial pre-
treatment of the raw water. The pre-treatment
includes dosing of a coagulant, flocculation in a
baffled channel flocculator and sedimentation
in a reinforced concrete pre-sedimentation
tank. The slow sand filters, of which four were
constructed, were earth embankment
structures, as this allowed for a considerable
saving on construction cost compared to
reinforced concrete, and sufficient space was
available to make this an option. The facility
has consistently produced potable water of a
high quality, and is scheduled for a complete
refurbishment in the near future. Aurecon has
been appointed to provide the consultancy
services for this refurbishment.
Eerstehoek water treatment works,
Elukwatini, South Africa
The complete process, civil, mechanical and
electrical design for this water treatment facility
was done by Aurecon. The facility is a
conventional rapid gravity sand filtration plant
which employs chemical (coagulant) dosing,
flocculation, sedimentation, filtration and
disinfection to treat a flow of 8,6 M/d. It has
been in operation since 1986 and has
consistently produced treated water of a high
quality for domestic purposes. The works is to
be extended during 1999 to allow treatment of
an additional 4,3 M/d. During 1998, Aurecon
prepared the complete civil, structural,
mechanical and electrical design for this
extension to the facility, which included the
addition of two baffled channel flocculators, two
sedimentation tanks and two rapid gravity sand
filters. The extension also required the
construction of a pump station and pipeline to
WATER PROJECTS provide raw water from an alternative source.
The pump station and pipeline were
constructed during 1998.
Khayelitsha cental pump station and
rising main, South Africa
A large part of the town of Khayelitsha was
designed to drain into this system. This
catchment will ultimately carry a population of
250 000. The system consists of a drywell
pump station with four pumps that can deliver
650 l/s in total, and a rising/gravity system of
800mm diameter pipeline which runs over 5km
towards a treatment works. Installation was
quite difficult due to deep sections (up to 8m)
and very high groundwater conditions. This
required specific attention to dewatering and
shoring of excavations.
appears that there is a shortage in the
order of 25 m/sec.
Investigate the most suitable draw-off
point from Lake El Assad and do a
preliminary design for the draw-off, pump
station, water purification works and
transfer infrastructure from the purification
works to the combination basin.
Once the most suitable option has been
identified, the consultant is to prepare
detailed designs for the take-off structures
and the water purification works. The
client will do the detailed design of the
other pump stations and the pipeline in-
house and the consultant must do an
expert review on the hydraulic, cathodic
protection and water hammer designs for
these pipes. The project is to be executed
in two phases with 2020 as the first phase
and 2040 as the second phase.
Aurecon's role is to assist the international
practice from Egypt with the conception
planning of the total project, to provide
expert advice concerning the take-off
structure and to do specialist reviews on
all the designs prepared by AAW.

Olifansvlei Effluent pump station,

Drawing water from lake at Al Furat
South Africa
River to the City of Damascus, Syria
The appointment called for the detailed design
Aurecon has been appointed together with an
and preparation of complete construction
international practice in Egypt on a multi-million
drawings and documentation for a pump station
dollar project to provide water to Damascus
and rising main which pumps treated sewage
from Lake Assad on the Euphrates River to
effluent from the Olifantsvlei Wastewater
Damascus. The project involved the
Treatment Works to maturation dams over a
investigation of a suitable draw-off pump
distance of approximately 2km. The pump
station from the El Assad Lake on the Eufrates
station has been designed to ultimately pump 8
River. From this draw-off point, water is
cubic metre per second and will consist of 4
pumped to a new water purification works
centrifugal pumps. Aurecon was responsible for
situated close to the lake. Here the water is
the project management, hydraulic design,
purified and then pumped through a series of
structural and civil design, geotechnical
high lift pump stations along a route that is
investigation, as well as the design and
approximately 250 - 300km long to a suitable
specification of all the mechanical/electrical
mixing basin close to Damascus. The water is
equipment required.
then mixed with water emanating from the
coastal regions as well as other sources
currently feeding Damascus.

The role of the consultants was to:

Determine the water demand up to the
year 2040 for Damascus. At this stage it
WATER PROJECTS Aurecon was also appointed to do the site
supervision of the contracts under this project
and to implement Aurecon's site management
system based on SABS/ISO 9000.
The main components of the project were:
pump station sump and inlet configuration
pump station building
two centrifugal pumps, each with a
capacity of 2 cubic metre per second
equipped with variable speed drives,
1000mm diameter electrically actuated
flow control valves
isolating and non return valves
pressure vessel for water hammer
protection
1400mm diameter by 2km long mild steel
pipeline, which is Fusion Bonded Epoxy
coated and lined, installed partially below
and partially above ground level, suitably
protected by a cathodic corrosion
protection system
electrical requirements
forced ventilation
mechanical hoisting and conveyance
equipment
Olifantsvlei inlet screw pump
station, Johannesburg, South Africa
The appointment called for the mechanical
design, preparation of mechanical flow
diagrams and drawings, as well as the
documentation for an Archimedes type screw
pump station for the pumping of raw sewage to
the Olifantsvlei Wastewater Treatment Works.
The main components of the project were:
Mechanical coarse screens for pump
protection
Screening washing, drying and removal
equipment
Two pump lift stations, each pump lift
comprising three screws, each screw has
a capacity of 1.75 cubic meter per second
over a vertical lift of 6.5m
Isolating channel sluice gates
Forced ventilation
Motor control centre and electrical power
supply
Durbanville north bulk water supply,
Cape Town, South Africa
Aurecon was appointed by the City of Cape
Town for the Durbanville North Bulk Water
Supply. Aurecon is responsible for the
construction of a 15M reservoir, 800kW pump
station and approximately 7km of rising and
gravity mains. The water will be pumped from
the Spes Bona pump station to the Spes Bona
Reservoir. As the Bulk Water Transfer System
is being expanded in stages, this scheme will
supply different suction heads to the Spes
Bona pump station during its operation. Due to
this, the Spes Bona pump station will make use
of Variable Frequency Converter (VFC) to
control the speed of the pump motors. This
enables the Spes Bona pump station to
operate at the different duty points as required
by the system.
The Spes Bona pump station will also be
operated in a continuous pumping operation,
where the VFCs simulate the demand
withdrawn from the Spes Bona reservoir,
providing a constant supply head to the
distribution system. This reduces the pumps
power consumption due to less starting of the
pump drives. When complete, this supply
scheme will supply the distribution network of
the Northern Tygerberg Area.
Monwabisi central pump station and
rising main, Cape Town, South
Africa
A Southern Section of Cape Town along the
False Bay Coast was designed to drain into this
system. The system consists of a drywell
pump station with four pumps that can deliver
500 l/s, in total, and a rising/gravity system of
600/700 mm diameter pipeline which runs over
4km towards a treatment works. The pipe
section consisted of special epoxy-coated fibre-
cement pipes.
WATER PROJECTS Design and construction
supervision for Berg River Dam and
supplement scheme including gated
outlet works, spillway, river
abstraction works, pump stations
and pipelines
The Berg Water Project will augment the water
supply of the Western Cape region and
specifically that of the City of Cape Town. The
brief involved a dam type selection study, in
which clay core rockfill, composite RCC
gravity/clay core rockfill and concrete faced
rockfill dams were evaluated.
Vaal River Eastern Sub-system
Augmentation Project (VRESAP)
The Vaal River Eastern Sub-system
Augmentation Project is an emergency water
transfer scheme. Water is abstracted from the
Vaal Dam and pumped to the Knoppiesfontein
division structure over a distance of 115km.
From the division structure the water gravitates
to the Bosjesspruit and Trichardsfontein Dams
near Secunda. The primary bulk consumers
served by the project are Eskom and Sasol.

The outlet works comprised a dual wet and dry

well multi-level intake tower 63m high with a
5.5m diameter concrete outlet conduit. One of
the features of the outlet works will be their
ability to mimic the periodic natural floods that
are necessary to mitigate the impact on the
ecology and geomorphology in and around the
river. It is possible to cater for a flood up to
200m3/s, which will be released through the
outlet works over a similar period to the natural
occurring floods. The releases will take place
through multi-level selector gates, an isolating
gate (hydraulically operated bonneted slide
gate) and a flow control gate (hydraulically
operated radial gate).

The spillway comprises a 40m long side

channel with splitters and an aeration gallery, a
discharge chute and deflector bucket and an
18m deep unlined plunge pool. The maximum
discharge capacity is 740m3/s. The plunge
pool will also be used as energy dissipater for
the flood releases from the outlet works. Model
studies were undertaken of both the spillway
and the outlet works.

The supplement scheme comprises an

abstraction works on the Berg River 10km
downstream of the dam, two pump stations
with capacities of 6 and 4m3/s respectively and
two steel pipelines of 1 500mm diameter with a
total length of 12.4km. The abstraction works
includes a series of sediment traps that can be
hydraulically flushed to replenish deposited
sand, gravel and boulders to downstream river
reaches.

Moatize coal project, Tete Province,
MINING PROJECTS
Mozambique
Some of the worlds richest coal deposits are
located at Moatize in the Tete Province of
Mozambique. Vale holds the concession to
exploit this resource over the next few
decades. The current project is for the
establishment of the first phase of the mine
with anticipated production volume of 12 million
tons of coal per year, both for coking and
thermal coal.
The project entails a major investment in the
region, and will also require the upgrading of
other infrastructure in the area such as rail and
port facilities at Beira, which will have broader
benefits for the region.
The project comprises the establishment of
mine infrastructure including coal processing
facilities, maintenance facilities, administration
facilities, conveyors, bulk water and electrical
supply, new access roads, water treatment and
rail loading facilities. Aurecons involvement at
this stage consists of the development of a new
conceptual design for the mine to improve on
and optimise the current layout, followed by
detailed design of the mine infrastructure
components. The project is done in
association with numerous sub-consultants in
terms of rail design, bulk water and waste
disposal, architects and materials handling, but
Aurecon is responsible for the project
management, conceptual and detailed design
and geotechnical investigations.
Northam wastewater treatment
works feasibility study
Anglo Platinum is planning expansions at
mines in the area of Northam/Thabazimbi. It
was found that the town of Northam has no
additional wastewater treatment capacity for
new residents that would be associated with
the expansions at the mines. Anglo Platinum is
also in need of additional water for industrial
processes at the Union Mine. Anglo Platinum
appointed Aurecon to conduct a feasibility
study to investigate the construction of a new
wastewater treatment process plant at
Northam, as well as a pump line that would
deliver the effluent from the wastewater
treatment plant to Union Mine for use in
industrial processes.
Aurecon provided planning, preliminary design,
project management, GIS, CAD, client and
other parties liaison, geotechnical
investigation, environmental impact
assessment, topographical surveys,
institutional analyses, risk mitigation, cost
estimation, financial/economic analyses
including cost recovery and funding options.
Infrastructural and structural
engineering services for the Run-Of-
Mine (ROM) extensions to Catoca
Diamond Mine, South Africa
Bulk Earthworks, Access Roads, Layerworks
and Structural Engineering services for the
ROM (Run-Of-Mine) extensions to the existing
Catoca diamond mine in Angola. Engineering
services rendered by Aurecon mainly consist of
the following:
Geotechnical investigation and report
Layout and setting out of main
components
Coordinate with other planners, viz. Krupp
Materials Handling (Conveyors),
Reinforced Earth (Crusher Tip Wall),
Crusher designer
Design and detail for construction:
Ground profile for Overland Conveyor
system
Ground Profile for the Sacrificial Conveyor
Ground Profile for the Ramp Conveyor
Access Road to the Crusher Tip
Crusher Tip
Armco tunnel bridge structure
Crusher slab (RC) and supporting layer
works
Container slabs
Magnet structure slabs and supporting
layer works
Stormwater drainage
Overland conveyor sleepers and pipe
supports
MINING PROJECTS Bulk earthworks, roads, bulk water
supply and Civil Engineering
services for the new Khumani Iron
Ore Mine (BKM Project) at Sishen
Main components of Aurecon's scope of work:
Bulk earthworks and layer works for the
Crusher tip
o Workshop platform
o Overland conveyor
o Stacker and reclaimer
prisms at the ROM and
Product Load-out and
Plant.
Bulk water supply and booster pump
station
Access roads
Municipal Services
Stormwater attenuation dams
Underground rail consultancy
services for Lonmin Platinum, South
Africa
A pilot case study was conducted at Lonmin's
Eastern Plats, Western Plats and Karee mine
to measure the basic track geometry condition
of some of their underground railways and to
compare the results to the current SANS
0339:2000 standards.
Geometry measurements in the underground
mining environment are currently limited to
survey points on the rail and ad hoc gauge
measurements. In SANS 0339:2000, various
maximum permissible deviations from the track
design values are listed. Track geometry
measurements help to ensure that the following
is achieved:
The safe geometry tolerances of the track
classifications are met (defined in SANS
0339:2000) and therefore reduce the risk
of derailments.
Identify workplaces for the maintenance
crew.
Allows for cost-effective maintenance of
the track since areas that do not require
geometrical alteration are not worked in.
A pilot case study was conducted at Lonmin's
Eastern Plats, Western Plats and Karee mine
to measure the basic track geometry condition
of some of their underground railways and to
compare the results to the current SANS
0339:2000 standards.
Outsourcing of non-core
maintenance activities of
infrastructure in Oranjemund and
Associated Mines for Namdeb,
Namibia
Since the signing of an outsourcing agreement
in November 2001, the diamond mining
company Namdeb has been able to turn its full
attention to its core business whilst Aurecon
Namibia and Southern African Contracting
Services (SACS) maintain the basic
infrastructure in Oranjemund. Namdeb is a
Joint Venture between the Government of the
Republic of Namibia and the De Beers Mining
Corporation. Oranjemund is the operational
headquarters of the Joint Ventures' mining
activities in Namibia.
In keeping with its policy to concentrate on core
business activities, Namdeb decided to
outsource various maintenance services in
Oranjemund to the SACS/Aurecon Joint
Venture. In keeping with its policy to
concentrate on core business activities,
Namdeb decided to outsource the following
non-core maintenance services in Oranjemund
and the related mining areas:
Town Electricity Maintenance:
Maintenance of the low voltage electrical
distribution network and service
connections, streetlights and maintenance
of refrigeration installations
Town Mechanical Maintenance: General
maintenance and repair of mechanical
and associate equipment. This includes
the total water and sewerage systems,
plumbing, drainage installations and boiler
making functions.
Town Building Maintenance: General
maintenance and repairs to the buildings
and structures of Namdeb, including
houses, private enterprise buildings, sport
clubs and company buildings
Town Road Maintenance: Maintenance of
the tar and gravel roads, demarcation of
roads, erecting and maintenance of safety
barriers and road signs in the Namdeb
area.
MINING PROJECTS The Joint Venture of Southern African
Contracting Services and Aurecon Namibia
was awarded this contract in September 2001.
The initial contract is for a five-year period and
includes the maintenance of the following
infrastructure: the water reticulation network,
sewage conveyance and purification, the low-
voltage electrical distribution network, road
network and buildings (eg houses, sports clubs
and company buildings).
Design of a new access to De Hoop
mine and the upgrading of the
existing access to Mapoch Mine on
road P169/1 between Stoffberg and
Steelpoort, South Africa
Aurecon was appointed for the detailed design,
and to obtain provincial approval for a new
access road to the De Hoop Mine of road
P169/1 (55,75km) and the upgrading of the
existing access to the Mapoch Mine Refinery
(27,42km).
Services provided:
Geometric design
Pavement design
Road sign design
Drainage design
Dewatering for Western Areas Gold
Mining at Gemsboksfontein, South
Africa
Western Areas Gold Mining Co Ltd set about
dewatering the Gemsboksfontein dolomitic
ground water compartment in May 1986.
Immediately, prior to the start of dewatering,
Aurecon was responsible for pre-stabilisation of
a 1,8km section of road where the risk of
sinkholes and subsidence as a result of
dewatering was considered unacceptable. This
remains to date probably the largest successful
compaction grouting exercise in the world.
A monitoring system for ground movement and
water table drawdown was developed which is
used to study and report on the effects of
dewatering on infrastructure and land. In
addition to the factual reporting to interested
and affected third parties on the progress and
effects of dewatering, Aurecon continues to
assist the mine with contingency measures
where ground movements occur.
Design of ventilation ducting piling
at Middelbult and Bosjesspruit
Mines, South Africa
Aurecons Structural Engineers designed the
ventilation ducting piling for the Middelbult and
Bosjesspruit Mines.
The project entailed new ventilation ducts and
the relocation of existing equipment including
parts of existing ducts for both the Bosjesspruit
and Middelbult ventilation shafts in Secunda.
The shape of the 7m diameter ventilation duct,
consisting of stiffened 6mm plating, was
determined by the ventilation consultant.
Aurecon performed structural design of the
plating and other duct elements, including
concrete bases and plinths. The design also
incorporated existing duct sections from
existing mine ventilation shafts that are no
longer in use. The structural design included
shaft collars to support shaft drilling equipment,
as well as the concrete bases supporting fans
and electrical motors. Dynamic and static
analyses were conducted on the equipment
foundations using in-house developed
software.
Aurecons professional services included the
verification of the steel beams and shaft collar
system as part of the contract.
Sasol industrial effluent treatment
works, South Africa
Aurecon was appointed to improve the flow
through the water recovery units at Sasols
petrochemical complex at Secunda. The
problem was identified as a bottleneck in the
flow through the water recovery units as a
result of certain shortcomings in the water
treatment plants used to treat wastewater for
reuse in the petrochemical processes.
The project included the improvement of the
operation of five activated sludge treatment
plants. This involved the refurbishment of two
sedimentation tanks in order to improve their
sedimentation efficiency, installation of
equipment for the automation of sludge
recirculation and withdrawal. Also required was
the improvement of the hydraulic flow splitting
structure which divides the flow between the
five plants. The conversion of existing sludge
thickening tanks to sedimentation tanks was
MINING PROJECTS done and the electrical reticulation system was
upgraded. The Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisitioning (SCADA) System was improved.
Flow measuring instruments and equipment for
the accurate measurement of dissolved oxygen
levels was also installed as part of the project.
Construction was completed in 1995.
Hazardous waste pond for Atomic
Energy Corporation, South Africa
Aurecon was appointed by the Atomic Energy
Corporation to design an evaporation pond for
the treatment of hazardous waste at its
premises in Pelindaba near Pretoria.
The pond, with a surface area of 9000m and a
volume of approximately 15 000m, contains
hazardous liquids with high sulphate and
fluoride content.
The greatest challenge of this project lay in the
design of a lining for the pond, as the lining
serves a number of functions. It must be
chemically resistant against the corrosive
contents of the pond, while also protecting the
surrounding soil against pollution through
leakage. This necessitated a capability to
detect leakages. A compound lining consisting
of multiple layers was designed. The primary
layer consists of a chemically inert geo-
synthetic liner with a white signal layer on top
of a low permeability geo-synthetic clay liner.
Underneath this layer is a leak-detection layer
consisting of geo-synthetic netting against the
bottom and sides of the pond. This layer is
connected to manholes which allow monitoring
of possible leakage through the primary layer.
The leak-detection layer is isolated from the
surrounding soil by means of a secondary geo-
synthetic liner. The primary liner with its white
signal layer and the geo-synthetic clay liner
were used for the first time in South Africa on
this project.
Structural engineering design and
supervision for Alusaf Hillside and
Bayside gas treatment centres,
South Africa
Gas treatment centres formed part of the works
for the Alusaf Hillside and Bayside smelter
projects.
Aurecon was appointed to design the
structures with dimension approximately 35 x
26m and a height of 25m.
The design included all structural steelwork
components of the predominantly steel framed
structure. The design included support trestles
supporting ducting towards and away from the
buildings, the supporting structure for a 600t
silo, and an approximately 55m high stack.
Orapa Mine remedial work tertiary
crushing plant, Botswana
Aurecon was appointed by Gaia to assist with
the structural rehabilitation work on the tertiary
crusher at Orapa Mine.
Aurecon was involved with the design of the
temporary support system whilst work was
carried out on the repairs to the columns,
beams and corbels. Supervision was carried
out on the fabrication and installation of the
temporary support system.
Services included structural support system
design and remedial work supervision.
New sewage treatment works at
Orapa Mine, Botswana
Aurecon was appointed by Debswana Diamond
Company for the design and construction of a
new 3,5M/day capacity activated sludge
sewage treatment works to replace the existing
facility made redundant by expansion of open
cast mining operations. The design provided
for primary settling, screening and de-gritting,
biological treatment, secondary sedimentation
and disinfection. Waste sludge is discharged
into two sludge lagoons where it is allowed to
settle and the supernatant water used for
irrigation. The works also has an emergency
storage dam to which excessive flow can be
diverted for later gradual inclusion in the
influent for treatment.
The services included the process and
hydraulic design, topographical and
geotechnical investigations, structural and civil
design, mechanical and electrical services
design, tender documentation, construction
supervision and commissioning of the facility.
MINING PROJECTS Hartebeesfontein Gold Mine: No 2
Shaft gold, acid and south plants as
well as portions of Buffelsfontein
Plant for Durban Roodepoort Deep
Limited, South Africa
Aurecon concluded the structural evaluation
report of numerous structures to the No. 2
Shaft, Gold, Acid and South Plant at the
Hartebeestfontein Gold Mine as well as an
overview of certain Pachuca walkways and
conveyor gantry structures to the Buffelsfontein
Gold Mine.
The purposes of the report was to re-evaluate
the condition of certain structures in the above
areas by means of visual inspection with a view
to identifying those elements that, according to
our opinion and experience, needed remedial
works to eliminate the risk of collapse, and to
extend the safe service life of the elements and
the structures they form part of.
Rehabilitation of R7 conveyor
system at Impala Platinum Mine,
South Africa
The R7 conveying system and associated silos
form an integral part of Impala Platinum's
mineral processes milling and flotation circuit.
Aurecon was appointed to rehabilitate the 30
year old conveyor. The project required the
implementation of the following activities:
Carry out a design review of the existing
conveyor structure
Prescribe remedial measures to ensure
that the structure meets design loading
requirements based on the design review
Carry out an on-site assessment of the
general condition of the structural
steelwork
Prescribe remedial measures for the
replacement and / or repair of badly
corroded and abraded elements
Project management and site supervision
of the construction phase
Enhancement: Concrete structures
Mechanical Services
Contract Documentation
Quantity Surveying
Operations and Maintenance.
Preliminary design and budget cost
estimate for modifications to the
UG2 plant high grade secondary
milling circuit, South Africa
Aurecons Energy and Industrial Consulting
Services Sector was appointed by Impala
Platinum for the preliminary design and cost
estimate to implement UG2 Batching Plant
modifications in order to accommodate higher
input product flow without volumetric changes
to the existing batch weighing tanks.
Increased volume of concentrate from the UG2
Processing Plant rendered the existing UG2
Batching Plant incapable of completely
batching the concentrate. This increased
volume was handled by adding additional
feeder lines from the UG2 Processing Plant.
Magflow flow meters were added to each of the
feeder lines and a Coriolis Mass Flow meter
(free issued by Impala Platinum) on one of the
feeder lines in order to have accurate on-line
volumetric flow, density and mass flow being
measured and compared to the measurements
obtained from the batch weighing system. This
ensured that accurate records and weights of
concentrate could be obtained to balance the
flow of material through the process plant.
The successful completion of the assignment
was the result of an integrated system design
approach that was driven by the process
requirements, resulting in a coordinated
process, including all support services. This
design process enabled the E&I Division to fully
understand the clients needs. The compilation
of a Mechanical Flow Diagram (MFD) and the
subsequent HAZOP analysis by all design,
operating and maintenance role players
assisted the E&I Division to understand and
address the clients needs to his satisfaction.
Smelter feed conveyor, Richards
Bay, South Africa
A structural steel design for the conveyor
support structure was previously performed by
other consultants but the client had since
changed certain design parameters and
requested an audit on the static and dynamic
design.
MINING PROJECTS Spans of the conveyor gantries varied from 18
to 35m, and the evaluation included a 21m high
take-up tower and trestles.

Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal,

Mackay, Queensland
Aurecon engineered the Dalrymple Bay Coal
Terminal in 1980, and has since substantially
engineered all offshore works. At 54.5 Mtpa, it
is amongst the largest coal terminals in the
world.

Aurecon was appointed Project Manager for

the EPCM of the seventh expansion phase of
the Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal (DBCT 7X).
The expansion will increase the capacity of the
terminal by 50 per cent taking it above 85
Mtpa. The scope is almost a duplication of all
work accomplished at the terminal over the last
six expansion phases (since 1984). Under the
terms of 7X, Aurecon will accomplish that same
scope within four years. The two main phases
of work include: (1) a new inloading system,
new bunds and yard machines; and (2) a new
outloading system, another bund/yard machine,
third outloading conveyor and a fourth berth.
The project was completed during 2008.

Caroona Underground Coal Mine,

Surface Facilities, Quirindi, New
South Wales
The proposed coal mine surface facilities (Mine
Industrial Area) and associated underground
coal mine is a proposed greenfield mine
development located in the Gunnedah Coal
Basin.

The proposed capacity, once determined, could

be in the range of 10 to 25 Mtpa. The facilities
include the complete coal handling system
between the drift conveyor from the
underground mine through to the train load out
facility, including ROM, raw and product coal
stacking and reclaiming, coal preparation plant,
all buildings, rail loop and spur, roadwork's,
utilities (bulk power and water) and services.
The project is due for completion in 2010.
ENERGY PROJECTS POWER SYSTEMS
ENGINEERING
Master planning/studies
Indicative rural master plan. Compilation
of an indicative master plan for a network to
supply a total of 500 000 rural consumers
(Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development,
Uganda).
Upgrade of rural electrification master
plan. Obtaining detailed field data to update
Nampowers existing master plan and
transferring all to a readily accessible GIS-
based system. (Nampower, Namibia).
Master plan for the City of Windhoek.
Auditing the existing networks, undertaking
load flow and fault level analysis of the existing
networks. 20-year load projections. Compiling a
complete master plan report. (Windhoek
Municipality, Namibia).
Master plan for the transmission and
distribution system. Auditing the existing
networks, undertaking system and fault
analysis of the existing networks. 20-year load
projections. Compiling of complete master plan
report. (State Fuel and Power Corporation,
Zanzibar).
Report on rehabilitation requirements of
the 220kV, 110kV, 30kV, 20kV and 6,6kV
networks in the Republic of Congo.
(Investec, Congo, Brazzaville).
Master plan for the 66kV and 11kV
networks in Walvis Bay. System analysis,
load projections for 20 years. Proposals for
upgrading and extension. Supply option study
and compilation of comprehensive master plan
report (Walvis Bay Town Council, Namibia).
Master plan for the 66kV and 11kV
networks for the City of Pietersburg.
System analysis, load projections for 20 years.
Proposals for upgrading and extension. Supply
option study and compilation of comprehensive
master plan report. (Pietersburg/Polokwane
Transitional Local Council, South Africa).
Rehabilitation of the 11 kV distribution
and LV reticulation in rural areas. (Town
Council of Potgietersrus, South Africa).
Master plan for the future 11kV network
for the southern areas of Windhoek.
Complete load flow and fault level analysis with
single contingency studies (Windhoek
Municipality, Namibia).
Master plan for 11kV network at
Onwgediva. Master plan incorporating
existing overhead network in the town (Ministry
of Regional Local Government and Housing,
Namibia).
Substations
60/15 kV, 40 MVA outdoor step down
substation at Nova Vida housing
development in Luanda. (Minapu,
Angola)
Contract management and supervision
for the electricity supply to key
customers in the Rustenburg area, RSA
(Various).
Contract administration and supervision on the
following substations:
UG2 substation :
2 x 88kV feeder bays
Shaft 15 substation :
3 x 88kV feeder bays
Wildeplats :
1 x 88kV feeder bay
Wonderkop :
1 x 88kV feeder bay
Millennium 100MVA 88/33/6.6 kV
distribution substation and power lines
(Eskom Distribution, Northern Region, South
Africa).
Extension of the existing CCT 88/33kV
distribution substation (Eskom
Distribution, Northern Region, South Africa).
New Impala 120MVA 88/6.6 kV
distribution substation and power lines
(Eskom Distribution, Northern Region, South
Africa).
132 / 11 kV, 20 MVA transformer circuit
at Mtoni substation (State Fuel & Power
Corporation, Zanzibar).
Upgrading of the 66/11kV substations
and 11kV distribution substations for
the implementation of a SCADA/EMS
system for the Electricity Distribution System
for the City of Pietersburg.
(Pietersburg/Polokwane Transitional Local
Council, South Africa).
ENERGY PROJECTS 110/20kV, 20MVA Outdoor Step down
Substation at Noi Bai (Noi Bai Development
Corporation, Vietnam)
Distribution networks
25 km 60 kV power line to Nova Vida
housing development in Luanda.
(Minapu, Angola).
Restructuring of the electricity
distribution industry (EDI). Consolidation
of 400+ electricity distributors in South Africa
into 5 or 6 consolidated regional distributors.
Aurecon played a key role in ring fencing of
regional distributors infrastructure and setting
up handover arrangements. (Department of
Minerals and Energy, South Africa).
Normalisation of medium and low
voltage networks in Ekangala (Eskom,
South Africa, 2001).
Pre-feasibility study, feasibility study
and detailed engineering design for the
strengthening of the 66kV and 11kV
networks at Walvis Bay (Walvis Bay Town
Council, Namibia).
15km Long 22kV power line to Lebowa
Granite. (Department of Works, South
Africa).
25km Long 22kV power line to Ga-
Saleka. (Department of Works, South Africa).
10km Long 33kV power line to
Mahwelereng. (Department of Works, South
Africa).
Electrification/Medium and Low
Voltage Reticulation
Rural Electrification using new
electrification technology. Electrification of
28 000 rural stands in Adi Keih, Dekemhare,
Barentu and Keren districts in Eritrea (Eritrea
Electricity Authority, Eritrea).
Electrification of approximately 80 000
stands for Eskom in various towns
(Eskom, South Africa).
Electrification of 12 500 stands in
various towns around Rustenburg
(Rustenburg District Council, South Africa).
Atteridgeville X7 Electricity for all
project (Pretoria City Council, South Africa).
Electrification of Mafefe, Gemini and
Fertilis using single wire earth return
technology and labour intensive
methods. (Eskom Distribution, Northern
Region, South Africa).
South Africa 400kV interconnector high
voltage transmission lines. Project
management for the Namibian portion of
transmission line construction. The new line
spans from the Aries substation in South Africa
via Keetmanshoop to the new Aries substation
near Windhoek. Construction of the line was
completed four months ahead of schedule
(Nampower, Namibia)
Libya 220kV transmission line
construction management. Project
includes a 175km coastal line 105km inland
line through the Sahara desert and three
220/66/33kV Gas Insulated Switch gear (GIS)
step down substations. (General Electricity
Company of Libya).
INDUSTRIAL PROCESS
ENGINEERING
Mechanical Engineering
Delta apron fuel line repair. Design and
contract supervision for the replacement of an
existing 860m long 400mm diameter steel fuel
pipeline with a new line. (ACSA, Johannesburg
International Airport, South Africa).
Mechanical upgrade and extension of
the Tsojana water purification works.
The Design and Documentation for new rapid
gravity sand filters, blowers and back wash
pumps. (Chris Hani District Municipality, South
Africa, Queenstown)
Surge analyses of the Petronet refined
products pipeline. Set up of surge modelling
and analysis software, surge model compilation
and calibration. Recommendations regarding
the integrity of the pipeline and the operating
procedures were made. (Petronet, South
Africa).
Beira sewage investigation and
feasibility study. Site investigation and
ENERGY PROJECTS status quo report of the sewage pump stations
including recommendations relating to the
refurbishment and upgrading of the sewage
pumping system. (Mozambique).
Upgrade of the southern Nsikazi
regional water scheme, Design,
documentation, construction supervision and
commissioning of the mechanical work required
for a new 1.5MW clear water pump and the
new 160kW raw water pumps. (Mbombela
Local Municipality on behalf of the Department
of Water Affairs and Forestry, Nelspruit, South
Africa).
Modifications to the Petronet multi-
products pipeline. Design, specification and
supervision to upgrade the receiving depot
manifold for transferring AVTUR from the
coastal refineries to OR Tambo International
Airport. (Petronet, Gauteng, South Africa).
Upgrade of the AVTUR pump line from
Coalbrook to OR Tambo International
Airport. Design, specification and supervision
to upgrade the AVTUR Pump Line from
Coalbrook to OR Tambo International Airport,
including pump selection and manifold piper
work. Electrical and control installation.
(Petronet, South Africa, Gauteng).
Botswana Ash (Pty) Ltd. Proposal and
concept design for a dust control and spillage
recovery system. (Botswana Ash, Botswana).
Electrical Engineering Installations
Impala Platinum Merensky concentrator
water circuit modifications
Responsibilities included the preliminary
design, cost estimate and compiling of a report
for the UG2 Merensky concentrator water
circuit modifications, including the electrical,
instrumentation and mechanical installations.
(Impala Platinum Mines, North West Province,
South Africa)
Impala Platinum UG2 high grade plant
secondary milling circuit modifications.
Responsibilities were the preliminary design,
cost estimate and compiling of a report for the
UG2 high-grade plant secondary milling circuit
modifications, including the electrical,
instrumentation and mechanical installations.
(Impala Platinum Mines, North West Province,
South Africa)
Soutpan bulk water supply scheme
upgrade. Responsibilities included the
design, documentation, contract administration
and site supervision of Motor Control Centres
for the raw water, main clear water and booster
clear water pump stations. (Masilonyana
Municipality, Free State, South Africa).
Mozambique to Secunda natural gas
pipeline. Basic engineering design related to
control of the Mozambique to Secunda natural
gas pipeline in conjunction with Worley Ltd. of
Australia. (Sasol, South Africa - Mozambique).
Electrification of water pumps. Design of
energy supply to water pumps. (Ministry of
Water, Construction, Energy, Lands and
Environment, Zanzibar).
Control and Supervisory Control and
Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems
Upgrade of the control and monitoring
equipment at Mantsole traffic control
centre. Responsibilities included the design,
specification, supervision and contract
administration of control and monitoring
equipment installations, including
instrumentation, PLCs (Programmable Logic
Controllers), heavy vehicle Weigh-In-Motion
equipment and SCADA (Supervisory Control
and Data Acquisition) system. (SANRAL,
Gauteng, South Africa).
Soutpan bulk water supply scheme
upgrade. Responsibilities were the design,
documentation, contract administration and site
supervision of instrumentation, PLCs
(Programmable Logic Controllers) and Radio
Telemetry between the raw water, main clear
water and booster clear water pump stations
and clear water reservoirs and water treatment
works. (Masilonyana Municipality, Free State,
South Africa).
Implementation of control and
monitoring equipment for Heidelberg
traffic control centre. Responsibilities were
the design, specification, supervision and
contract administration of control and
monitoring equipment installations, including
instrumentation, PLCs (Programmable Logic
Controllers), heavy vehicle Weigh-In-Motion
equipment and SCADA (Supervisory Control
ENERGY PROJECTS and Data Acquisition) system. (SANRAL,
Gauteng, South Africa).
Implementation of control and
monitoring equipment for
Potchefstroom traffic control centre.
Responsibilities were the design, specification,
supervision and contract administration of
control and monitoring equipment installations,
including instrumentation, PLCs
(Programmable Logic Controllers), heavy
vehicle Weigh-In-Motion equipment and
SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisition) system. (Department of Roads,
Transport & Public Works, North West
Province, South Africa).
Serule weighbridge and traffic control
centre. Responsibilities were the design,
tender documentation, contract management
and supervision of the instrumentation for a
heavy vehicle weighbridge. (Serule, Botswana).
Inchope and Caia weighbridge and
traffic control centre. Responsibilities were
the design, tender documentation, contract
management and supervision of the heavy
vehicle weighbridge instrumentation, non-grid
Energy Generation (Solar Power) for general
electrical building power and a borehole pump
and a diesel standby power generator.
(Mozambique).
Sasol Carbo-Tar, coke calcining plant.
Basic engineering design for a coke calcining
plant including electrical, control and
instrumentation and SCADA system. (Sasol
Carbo-Tar, South Africa).
SCADA system for the Pietersburg
electrical system. The project included the
upgrading and modification of 11kV and 66kV
switchgear to make all required signals
available to the SCADA via the Radio
Telemetry System. Responsible for the design,
documentation and contract related services to
implement the SCADA/EMS incorporating a
Radio and Telemetry System.
(Pietersburg/Polokwane Local Council, South
Africa).
Power Generation
Feasibility studies for independent
power producers (IPPs) in Africa. Site
assessments to establish suitable sites for new
IPPs Sudan, preliminary designs of electrical
and control systems for the diesel prime
movers, outdoor electrical substations and fuel
systems, suitable fuel selection and
conversions of diesel prime movers.
Installations vary from 5 - 40MW. (GESCO;
Burkina Faso, Chad, Guinea Bissau, Sierra
Leone, Sudan, Zanzibar).
Advisory services to Eskom enterprises
to establish a Joint Venture with the
National Water and Electricity Company
of The Gambia. Assessment of fast-track
generation and other generation requirements.
(NAWEC, The Gambia).
BUILDING ELECTRICAL &
ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS
IEC security projects. Compilation of
original security and safety policy documents
for the Independent Electoral Commission
(IEC) in 1999, followed by development of the
policy document into operational procedures
and system specifications. Aurecon then
successfully designed and supervised the
installation of fifteen electronic security
installations for the Commission, and currently
acts as technical consultant on all security and
standby power related projects for the IEC.
(IEC, South Africa).
City of Cape Town CCTV strategy
master plan. Aurecon was appointed to
compile a strategy master plan in preparation
to the 2010 Soccer World Cup. The strategy
must support the metros vision to become a
sustainable, accessible, safe and caring city.
(City of Cape Town, 2004)
Kruger Mpumalanga International
Airport. Aurecon was appointment for the
complete spectrum of electricity and electronic
engineering services for this modern airport.
The electronic services included protection
systems as well as voice and data networks.
(ABB, South Africa,
Midstream Estate: electronic services.
Installation of the full complement of security
services for this 1 500 stand estate. The
access control system is based on fingerprint
biometric readers with facial image recording,
ENERGY PROJECTS supported by licence plate image capture.
Each stand is provided with telephony, high
speed internet and satellite TV via a single
cable connection. (Bondev Developers, South
Africa).
South African embassy and diplomatic
village for Kinshasa. Aurecon was
responsible for the complete spectrum of
electrical and electronic design. The main
supply had to be reinforced with generator and
UPS power supplies. Fire detection, access
control and intercommunication systems were
required. The project also comprised
sophisticated electronic security, including
CCTV surveillance with digital recording. A
cable TV signal distribution network was
required for the diplomatic village. Extensive
surge and overvoltage protection measures
had to be designed to protect sensitive user
equipment. (South African Department of
Public Works, South Africa).
Kentron perimeter protection. Design
and supervision of installation of specially-
selected perimeter cameras with sophisticated
movement detection head-end equipment.
Lighting is provided by means of infrared
illuminators outside the visible spectrum.
(Denel, South Africa).
Johannesburg City inner core
surveillance. Aurecon was the technical
consultant on this project involving CCTV
surveillance cameras and a sophisticated
surveillance control and recording facility.
(Business Against Crime, South Africa)
Grandwest Casino: access routes CCTV
surveillance. Aurecon was appointed to
deploy closed-circuit television (CCTV)
surveillance to monitor and protect main
access routes. (Business Against Crime, South
Africa)
Traffic law enforcement study. The
technical study comprised all engineering and
system design aspects (Botswana Department
of works, Botswana)
Tygerberg ITS with CCTV technology.
Preparation of a proposal for integrated traffic
management (ITS) on main highways to Cape
Town. Technology for monitoring, response
and law enforcement is based on CCTV(City of
Cape Town, South Africa)
Independent electoral commission.
Deployed a large number of covert and
surveillance CCTV cameras at the Head Office,
Election House, IEC's head office, and at
provincial electoral offices (ten in total).
Analogue and hard disk recording and storage
facilities (IEC, South Africa)
Leopard Creek Golf Estate
(underground electrical and electronic
infrastructure).
Luxury 300-stand golf estate bordering the
Kruger Park, South Africa. Aurecon designed
and supervised the installation of the complete
underground electrical and electronic
infrastructure project including 10 km of fibre
optic cable, interactive cable TV, access
control, remote plant monitoring, intrusion and
fire detection with remote monitoring (Private
Client, South Africa).
Sustainable biofuels from Algae,
Wellington, New Zealand
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise wished to
determine the potential opportunity for New
Zealand around sustainable production of
biofuels for transport applications.
Aurecon was assigned to undertake and
manage a scoping study to identify and assess
technologies to manufacture biofuels from
algae in corporation with the Cawthron Institute
and the New Zealand Institute of Economic
Research. The project was completed during
2008.
Detailed Design and Contract
Administration for Hydro Power
Generation Options on the As River in
Free State Province, South Africa
Bethlehem Hydro appointed Aurecon to
undertake the detailed design and project
management duties for two mini hydro stations,
one on the farm Merino along the As River and
the other attached to the Sol Plaatje Dam, near
the town of Bethlehem in Eastern Free State
Province of South Africa. Water from the
Lesotho Highlands Water Project flows in the
As River, providing a constant flow of
approximately 24 cubic metres per second
within the river. The head at the Merino Site is
approximately 14m while that at Sol Plaatje is
ENERGY PROJECTS approximately 10m. The installed capacity of approach, and a stylised 360 degree camera
the turbines is respectively 2.5MW and 3.2 pan
MW. Extensive post-production editing took place,
which included titles, transitions and colour-
The layout of the power station for the Sol correction. The final deliverable was packaged
Plaatje Dam differed significantly from that into a DVD-formatted disc and used to brief key
conceptualised at Feasibility Study stage, staff within Queensland Transport, including
achieving increased efficiency and generation the Minister for Transport.
output. Project completion was during 2008
and the value of services was US $420,000.
Wembley Stadium, London, UK
Aurecon has designed the entire engineering
for the world famous Wembley Stadium. The
proposed stadium will seat 90,000 and features
a unique retractable roof, offering an
unprecedented facility as the new English
national stadium.

This project is one of the most exciting in which

Aurecon has ever been involved. The iconic
roof form we have developed includes an arch
spanning some 300 m long and 140 m high
and demonstrates our capability in world class
lighting of stadia.

Technical challenges such as pitch illumination,

lighting the Great Arch and the creation of
intimacy around the five-star restaurants each
required innovative lighting solutions.

Queensland Transport Regional Bus

Shelters
Queensland
Queensland Transport commissioned Aurecon
to produce a number of visualisations
highlighting different transport standard
compliant bus shelters in a virtual environment.

The key features of this visualisation included:

The modelling of three unique transport
standard compliant bus shelters
The creation of a virtual environment, complete
with traffic, road furniture, foliage and
pedestrians
The production of an animated movie file,
where the bus arrives at the shelter, which was
created from a variety of angles including a
pedestrian approach on foot, a bus drivers