CONSULTING ENGINEERING SOUTH AFRICA

There is a significant appetite for infrastructure investment, but the risk issues must be addressed SA’s infrastructure is under growing pressure, with the demand for services outstripping supply. Public infrastructure is at particular risk of failure, is not coping with normal demand, and is poorly maintained, according to the South African Institution of Civil Engineering’s SAICE 2022 Infrastructure Report Card. The report notes that South Africans will be subjected to severe inconvenience and even danger…

23 May 2022 Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) is challenging the recent decision by the SANRAL Board to cancel critical infrastructure tenders on the basis that their adjudication process was flawed due to the involvement of design engineers in the tender adjudication process. Chris Campbell, CEO of CESA states, “There is a clear lack of understanding of the role of an independently appointed design engineer in the contractor tender adjudication process. The role of a…