INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS

  

 

 

 

 

We design, document, administer and commission civil engineering infrastructure through specialized services. We provide solutions to infrastructural needs and embrace the use of systems thinking to manage complexity and change in civil engineering within its wider public context.

 

 

The proper development of civil engineering infrastructure requires a holistic, coherent understanding of the relationships between all of the important factors that contribute to successful projects while at the same time emphasizing the importance of attention to technical detail. We help integrate the entire civil engineering project life cycle from conception, through planning, designing, deployment, operating to decommissioning.

 

 

 

 

TRANSPORTATION AND URBAN SYSTEMS

 

Urban and Traffic Engineering

Urban Engineering (Municipality)

We are involved in the design and management of urban developments, including all internal municipal and link water, sanitation, roads and storm water infrastructure. Our expertise includes:

  • Township establishment and housing.
    • Master-plan development
    • Infrastructure and asset management
    • Building technology
    • Wastewater
    • Water supply and urban drainage
    • Urban data and trends

Traffic Engineering

Our Traffic Engineering capabilities are powerful and versatile to a wide array of traffic planning and modelling tasks. We can simulate all kinds of road networks, from freeways to downtown areas, and can analyze wide area multimodal networks in detail and with high fidelity. We can model and visualize the behavior of complex traffic systems in a 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional GIS environment to illustrate and evaluate traffic flow dynamics, traffic signal and ITS operations, and overall network performance.

Our capabilities are:

  • Highway capacity analysis and improvements
  • Traffic impact studies and access management
  • Public transport assessment and infrastructure
  • Transportation studies and land development
  • Transportation systems planning
  • Transportation planning
  • Strategic and master-planning of urban and metropolitan road systems
  • Feasibility studies for road systems
  • Road safety
  • GIS and remote sensing
  • Traffic and economic
  • intelligent transportation systems. 

 

 

 

Roads and Transportation Engineering

We are involved in the planning, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of roads, rail, bridges, and tunnels to ensure safe and effective transportation of people and goods. We have the capability to successfully deliver an array of projects that include high-capacity highways, airport pavements, railways, and transport related infrastructure:

 

  • Institutional support and stakeholder relationship
  • Transportation strategic and master-planning planning for land, and rail freight
  • Geometric design for roads and rail infrastructure
  • Pavement engineering and materials
  • Storm water management for transportation infrastructure

 

 

 

GEOTECHNICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

Geotechnical and Environmental

 Geotechnical Engineering 

We have the knowledge and experience to work on a range of studies from scoping to feasibility and operational improvement across all major Geotechnical Engineering problems in Commercial, Residential and Industrial developments such as Airports, Bridges, Waste Disposal Sites, Pipelines, Railways, Roads, Wind Farms and Communication Towers.

We offer a mix of analytical and empirical analysis complemented by sound operational experience to give solutions that are innovative and practical and design parameters that are optimized for the specific site conditions. We focus on the application and interpretation of the analytical results by reducing the data to create geotechnical domain models, representing sectors of the project that are expected to have similar geotechnical characteristics. Our deliverables are useful geotechnical models and design parameters to ensure that you get practical, focused results that add value to your projects.

  • Geotechnical field investigation, mapping, logging, and data basing
  • Rock mass characterization and domain modelling
  • Open Pit Mining method selection and excavation sequencing optimization
  • Assessment of impact of groundwater on open pit design
  • Mine infrastructure and capital development excavation design
  • Pit slope and underground stability analysis, 2D and 3D modelling and design
  • Dilution, fragmentation and caving analysis
  • Design of underground and slope support systems

 

Environmental

An understanding of the importance of biodiversity for ecosystem health inspires all design undertaken by Ndlovu Engineering Techniks. We aspire to be environmentally friendly in all our dealing on the planet earth. Our design principles are founded on an understanding of what is meant by sustainable development meaning of by green design with knowledge of the properties of complex adaptive systems (CAS), and their implications for engineering design.

We provide expert and informed advise to our clients:

  • Human impacts on the environment in rapidly developing urban contexts.
  • Principles of green/compact cities and sustainable urban planning
  • Life Cycle Assessment LCA of projects or engineered solutions.
  • Passive climatic design for buildings
  • Cost-effective solutions to building design that minimize the need for energy consumption to achieve human comfort.
  • Sustainable storm-water management
  • EMP Performance Assessments
  • Closure plans for Mines, Power Stations and Rehabilitation Cost Determinations
  • Landfill rehabilitation plans

As an additional value service to above we further offer our clients tailored environmental legislative requirements required on engineered designs:

  • Environmental Impact Assessment,
  • Environmental Management report compilation,
  • Environmental monitoring and auditing,
  • Integrated Water Use License Application compilation
  • Water use License Auditing.

Rural and Agricultural Engineering

Innovation is increasingly recognized as a potent policy tool for addressing the structural problems that characterize poverty in marginalized rural communities.

We aim to promote agricultural innovations with the development of technology that contributes to the achievement of a policy of “rural promotion” through prudent management of agricultural water and soil.

We focus on the development of technology that contributes to strategic renewal and management of agricultural irrigation facilities, disaster prevention and reduction in rural areas, preservation of regional resources for agricultural production, advanced paddy field management, biomass utilization, measures against the effects of climate change on farmland and water resources, and sophisticated environmental control of agricultural structures as well as many other areas. Moreover, we provide technical assistance with hazard and disaster countermeasures for farmland and agricultural facilities. Our top services for the rural communities have been the following unique solutions:

 

o Water distribution

o Water resource services

o Local water treatment, reuse, and management

 

PRODUCT DESIGN

Civil and Structural // Property & Building

We leverage state-of-the-art technology to participate in advanced design practices and provide cost-effective civil engineering solutions that enable you to adopt and develop design developments. Our civil engineering services enable us to provide civil engineering consulting and real-time solutions to help designers, architects, builders, and companies work more efficiently.

In building and structural works, our expertise starts from ground preparation design. We can develop an effective earthworks strategy as part of a larger enabling works package that addresses remediation planning and regulatory issues to deliver a build-ready development platform for our clients. We have substantial experience in the design of major earthworks schemes, landfill reprofiling and redevelopment, plus large mass balance exercises.  Many of these have necessitated detailed engineering analysis to overcome difficult ground conditions and ensure long term stability and serviceability.

With property and building, we offer a truly trans-disciplinary service for all stages of the project lifecycle – from early business planning through design and construction to asset management and refurbishment. Our comprehensive range of building design services is complemented by environmental, transport planning and infrastructure services. We strive in providing sustainability services for new and existing buildings.

We customize practical, efficient and cost-effective solutions to deal with civil and structural solutions. Our structural Engineering capabilities are:

  • Commercial and Mixed Use
  • Office Developments
  • Warehousing / Distribution Centers
  • Industrial Developments
  • Shopping Centers
  • Residential Developments
  • Motor Dealerships
  • Hospitals / Healthcare
  • Residential and commercial buildings
  • Water supply and treatment works,