Element Consulting Engineers Services

Element Consulting Engineers a member of the Green Building Council of South Africa, which is a token of our commitment to promote, encourage and facilitate green building design and implementation in the South African property and construction industry through marked-based solutions.

• Residential & Housing Developments
  
  • Low Cost Housing
  • GAP Housing
  • Lifestyle & Country Estates
• Industrial Developments
• Recreational Developments
  
  • Sports complexes and recreational facilities
  • Golf course developments

• Bulk Water Supply, pump stations and reservoirs
• Bulk Sewer Reticulation
• Labour Intensive Projects
• Earthworks and platform design, bulk earthworks for buildings and major infrastructure services

Element Consulting Engineers has successfully undertaken numerous projects in South Africa, as well as in Namibia, Angola, Ghana, Togo and Malawi. These projects were completed for various clients, including private, municipal, governmental organizations and state owned enterprises. The Roads & Transport Department offers the services of specialists who are knowledgeable and have extensive experience in their relevant fields. Element Consulting Engineers provides a one-stop service including all the specialist disciplines required. Road types include National, Provincial, Metropolitan, Streets and Access Roads. Construction Categories include Greenfields Construction (New Roads), Rehabilitation and Rejuvenation of existing roads, Upgrading, Improvements and Routine Road Maintenance. Construction types include Re-Seal (Periodic Road Maintenance), Asphalt, Gravel, Concrete and Seal constructions.

• Surfaced roads, gravel roads
• Geometric design
• Paving
• Drainage structures
• Geotechnical Investigations
• Traffic Studies
• Material Investigations
• Visual Surveys
• Geometric Design
• Traffic Engineering
• Pavement Design
• Urban Transports
• Transport Investigations
• Contract Management
• Transportation structures

Project Management is a very wide field and may be applied rigorously to all activities for quality control and monitoring purposes or more informally to selected aspects for which only overall co-ordination is required. Regardless of the extent of a project, the principles of project management should be implemented for the planning, design and construction aspects of all projects.

The availability and cost of land for, and construction of bulk infrastructure, property development structures, and buildings became so expensive that project management became indispensable to cut costs and provide environmental and social friendly development.

Due to the environmental impact of development and the necessity to conserve resources, Green Architecture and Engineering principles in building are becoming more important. This also means more governmental rules and regulations to comply with.

Effective project management, in accordance with international guidelines such as the Project Management Body of Knowledge book (PM BOK), the SA Guidelines for Human Settlement Planning and Design (Redbook), the Green Building Handbook SA, and other relevant documents, can result in improved safety, economic benefits (on time and within budget), quality control in all projects.

Capabilities

Element has been involved in the project management of road, electrification, municipal services, housing, commercial, industrial, and private projects for various clients including: SANRAL, ESKOM, various National Government Departments, various Provincial Authorities, various Metro / Local Authorities, and the Private Sector. Element offers:

Project Facilitation

• Investigations
• Project planning
• Financial control

Project Management

• Contract management and administration
• Systems engineering
• Quality management
• Project life cycle management
• Project risk management
• Principal Agent or Turnkey Team leader

• Project Investigations
• Project Planning
  • Critical Path Analysis
  • Programming of Activities
  • Organisation and Coordination
  • Community Liaison
• Financial Control
• Cost Estimates
• Cost Projections and Reports
• Subsidy Applications
• Cost Control

Element Consulting Engineers has more than 20 years' extensive experience in the field of Water and Sanitation engineering. The firm has been actively involved in the planning, design, drawing, documentation and implementation of related projects for various clients, including the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, Department of Transport, Provincial Administration, Metropolitan / Local Authorities and the Private sector. South Africa is a country where water scarcity is forcing innovative water engineering solutions which ranges from water conservation and water demand management, storage, treatment and distribution, to treatment and re-use or discharge as well as creating energy from waste. Projects undertaken by the firm include bulk water & sanitation services; pump stations; water and sewer treatment works; stormwater; water reticulation models; master planning; irrigation, desalination as well as a range of feasibility studies. One of the key aspects that will be considered during the planning and design of any project is the operational and maintenance requirements of the proposed services as well as the available institutional capacity and level of skill that will operate and maintain the implemented infrastructure.

Element Consulting Engineers has successfully undertaken numerous projects in South Africa, as well as in Namibia, Angola, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Mozambique and Malawi. These projects were completed for various clients, including private, municipal, governmental organizations and public corporate.

Projects include factories, industrial parks, industrial processing plants, substations, medium and high voltage power lines, street lighting, rural electrification, shopping centres, retirement villages, residential developments, apartment blocks and country estates.

Advancements in renewable energy technology; the rising costs of oil, gas and electricity; community incentives; standard offer contracts for renewable electricity and emission trading markets; has inspired us to explore and tap into the renewable energy market. Our primary focus of large utility-scale renewable energy plants has incorporated large wind farms and solar photovoltaic farms, but has also ventured into rooftop PV and some bio energy plants. It is this vision that made us part of the rapid deployment of renewable energy, energy efficiency and technological diversification of energy sources that would result in significant energy security and economic benefits.

Contract Management is a specialized field requiring dedicated resources with the expertise to deliver projects on time, on quality and within budget, keeping all stakeholders informed and involved to ensure efficient and value-adding project implementation.

This Division offers the one-stop services of Contract Engineers and Resident Engineers who are knowledgeable and have extensive experience in their relevant fields that ranges from estimating, quality control, measurements and the contract implementation of Water Retaining Structures, Reinforced Concrete Structures, Bulk Water and Sewer supply, Roads, Infrastructure Projects, Buildings and Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Projects.

This division can advise clients on different construction procurement strategies, including application of different contract forms, i.e. FIDIC, NEC, GCC, and JBCC.

Element Consulting Engineers has a sound Structural Engineering division based in the Stellenbosch and Cape Town branches. Here we employ a large number of both experienced and highly qualified professional structural engineers, technologists and technicians who are well versed to plan, analyse, design and detail any type of reinforced concrete, conventional structural steel, timber, composite or light-weight steel structures. Our structural design methodology is based on state-of-the-art structural and analytical modelling using software packages such as Revit Structures, Robot Millennium and PROKON, whereas the detailing and drafting portion of a project is finished with CAD packages such as Autocad and AutoPadds. Element Structures also do structural integrity investigation and reporting on existing structures to determine damage, functionality of purpose, economic life span or value of the structure.

The spatial design and environmental quality are determining factors in reducing risks and restricting potential damage. In the environmental management procedure we can manage and facilitate the process and co-ordinate the input of a range of specialised disciplines, as well as execute the environmental planning and development for a specific area.

Guidelines for the Strategic and Integrated development of planning areas are formulated on behalf of and in collaboration with provincial, metropolitan, and local authorities and the private sector, which include determining the nature, intensity and arrangement of land uses with due consideration to socio-economic factors, transport matters and development priorities in a social and environmentally sustainable manner.

Specific services include environmental impact studies, environmental planning and development, land-use / reform projects, conservation frameworks, facility development, and integrated environmental management.