SSI undertook design, specifications, contract administration, site monitoring and complete project management of the construction of a fire protection system installation. An extra high hazard sprinkler system was commissioned in the facility’s warehouse. The installation included storage water tanks and pumps. Hydrants, hose reels and extinguishers complied with SABS0400. The system was designed so that the main ring system throughout the market could be boosted in the event of a fire.
This project was unique in that it featured a super-fast track and involved highly complex technology. It was a major architectural challenge to accommodate such a technically complex facility.
In the early phases of the Public Private Partnership, SSI was a member of the original transaction advisory team and was given responsibility for project managing the team until a preferred bidder was selected.
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SSI undertook the design work for the upgrading of JIA’s 3,5 km 03R-21L runway and is supervising the construction phase. This follows the successful refurbishment of JIA’s main runway, 03L-21R, last year for the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA). The main motivation for these refurbishments is the advent of the Superjumbo to commercial scheduled flights in 2007 — the largest passenger airliner in the world.
One of the most demanding aspects of the runway refurbishment was that the runway must remain fully operational throughout the project. Work is only conducted between 10 pm and 7 am and international safety requirements are observed at all times, including laying asphalt surfacing that increases the height of the runway no more than 0,5% at a time.
Philip Joubert has extensive experience in the fields of road management systems, pavement design and rehabilitation, as well as centerline investigation and material prospecting in southern Africa. His road project embrace major national freeways to minor rural and urban roads. Philip’s experience includes project management, design and construction supervision of projects in the construction and rehabilitation of industrial railway, road and airport pavements. He is a member of the National Committee to review the TRH 12 Rehabilitation Guideline document and chairman of the National Working Group for Reinforcement of Pavements.
Jaco Liebenberg has been involved in a number of road rehabilitation projects, including various provincial and national roads in South Africa, the Trans Kalahari Highway in Botswana, the Trunk Road TR 1/5 south of Windhoek and the rehabilitation design of the main runway at Johannesburg International Airport. His experience includes investigation, design, execution and project management of rehabilitation projects. Jaco also has extensive experience in maintenance of road infrastructure, embracing programming of maintenance activities, maintenance standards, preventive, corrective and emergency maintenance, as well as budgeting and planning. He has authored several published papers on emulsion and cement treatment of materials and the design and construction of asphalt layers
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SSI’s Water Sector has established an enviable reputation for innovative water engineering solutions, from raw water abstraction, conveyance, storage and treatment, to management and industrial development. The company has a sound track record in a region where the scarcity of water is aggravated by the location of industrial complexes in water-scarce areas. Award-winning SSI dams, pipelines, pump stations, water and wastewater treatment works, reservoirs and distribution systems are ensuring a better quality of life for people within both urban and rural communities, across the length and breadth of Southern Africa.
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SSI’s Environmental Sector provides complete environmental management solutions for the South African and African markets. Having met and surpassed the challenges of some of the most challenging environmental management projects on the continent, this sector has developed a team of highly qualified and experienced environmental consultants who provide custom-designed solutions in a variety of fields.
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SSI is proud to announce that we will be launching a dedicated Ports & Aviation service line from January 2007.
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A concession on this 380 km section of the N4 between Pretoria and the Botswana border was put out to bid in 1997. SSI was a sponsor member of the Bakwena Consortium which was awarded the contract in 2000. The SSI role in the bid phase covered traffic and revenue projections, optimization of the toll strategy, design of the roadworks and toll plazas, and the provision of support to the Consortium during the BAFO and Preferred Bidder stages. During the construction phase, SSI were responsible for detail design and compliance monitoring on the + R2 billion design and construct contract. Other toll road projects include the N3 Heidelberg Cedara (bid management, technical advisor), the N2 Wild Coast (member of the Scheme Development consortium), and development of the Superhighways scheme for the Pretoria - Johannesburg corridor.
An SSI team of seven experts in the fields of aviation, institutional and regulatory aspects, finance, law, and airport engineering was appointed by the World Bank to investigate the opportunities and modalities for Private Sector Participation (PSP) in the aviation sector in Kenya. The terms of the appointment were to make recommendations on an appropriate institutional, management and financing structure and PSP options, to build consensus on the preferred options with stakeholders, to prepare Terms of Reference for a Transaction Advisor, and manage the Transaction Advisor procurement process. Other aviation projects include advisory services to bidding consortia for airport concessions in India and Nigeria, and the design-construct-maintain contract for the proposed King Shaka International Airport.
SSI was appointed by Rand Merchant Bank as Lenders’ Technical Advisor on this PPP development of a high security prison for 3000 prisoners, one of the first PPP projects in the building sector in SA. The SSI brief was to provide advice to the Lenders during all phases of the development, from due diligence through planning and construction to the first two years of operation. Responsibilities included a review of all design and costing, monitoring of progress for the authorisation of drawdowns on the loans, monitoring of contractual compliance by the Contractor, and generally keeping a watching brief on the interests of the Lenders. Other building projects include a new head office for two government ministries in Botswana (Transaction Advisor), head office for the Department of Education (Lenders’ Technical Advisor), Dept of Trade and Industry head office and the Gauteng Provincial Government Precinct (Transaction Advisor).
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