Electricity + Control September 2015

ENERGY + ENVIROFICIENCY

ROUND UP

CESA/Aon Excellence Awards – winners

In a celebration of innovation, quality, outstanding workmanship and professionalism in the consulting engineering sector, Consult- ing Engineers South Africa (CESA) held its prestigious CESA Aon Engineering Excellence Awards at Vodacom World in Midrand on 12 August, 2015. It was a feast of engineering talent and rewards an explosion of innovative engineering solutions, celebrating excel- lence in basic service delivery to our people. The Awards sponsored by Aon South Africa are a platform to showcase the important role that infrastructure plays in the sus- tainable development of our country. They focus on consulting engineers and their clients who participate in or initiate projects that promote the advancement of our nation and the people of • Engineering Excellence with a value greater than R250M: Moroff & Kuhne for WBHO’s ‘The Point’. The re-development of the old Galleria building at 76 Regent Road, Sea Point, into a 28 000 square metres shopping and lifestyle centre. • Young Engineer of the Year: Geoff du Toit from Aurecon with Rudolf Le Roux fromArup receiving a commendation. The win- ner in this category must have leadership ability, and contribute to the image of the firm and the industry as a whole. Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) sponsored the Young Engineer of the Year Award. • Engineering Excellence with a value less than R50 M: Royal HaskoningDHV for the New Microbiological Laboratory for the National Bioproducts Institute. • Engineering Excellence with a value between R50 M and R250 M: Bosch Projects for the Bronkhorstspruit Biogas Project for Bio2Watt. The first project of its kind in Africa, it will provide the continent. The winners:

green energy, in the form of electricity, to a private industrial consumer through a City of Tshwane and Eskom agreement • Business Excellence: Bigen Africa. This privately-owned project- based group of companies specialises in infrastructure and has the vision of creating long-term development impact within the African economies and communities that it operates in. • Best International Project: Bigen Africa for the Botswana North South Carrier 2: Water Transfer System (R6 billion) for the Botswana Ministry of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources. • Mentoring Company of the Year: Bigen Africa. • Mentor of the year: Colin Andrews • Visionary Client of the Year: Development Bank of Southern Africa • Publishing Excellence: 3S Media (Trade Publications) • Publishing Excellence (Daily Newspapers): Independent News- papers • CESA Job Shadow Initiative: UWP Consulting (runners-up - Royal HaskoningDHV, Hatch Goba and Infraconsult) • CESA Branch of the Year: KwaZulu Natal Branch

Enquiries: Wally Mayne (acting chief executive officer) Tel. 011 463 2022 or email wally@cesa.co.za

Dennis Ndaba (strategic communications) Tel. 011 463 2022 or 073 981 2066 or email dennis@cesa.co.za

Winners of ‘CESA/Aon Engineering Excellence Awards’.

High Power Energy Harvesting takes shape

Plenty of kilowatts from no fuel.This dream ticket is a reality today from the rapid adoption of High Power Energy Harvest- ing (HPEH). Energy harvesting converts ambient energy into electricity where it is needed, off-grid. HPEH typically converts short energy bursts in vehicles and other moving things. Think regenerative braking and planned torque assist reversing alternators (TARA) in cars and consider the latest elevators returning a surge of electricity as they

tive wave generators and thermoelectrics and energy harvesting shock absorbers in cars, buses and construction vehicles providing up to 1,5 kW from each device. IDTechEx covers this large emerging mar- ket in its unique new report: High Power Energy Harvesting - Off-Grid 10W - ]100 kW – 2016 - 2026 and it will be a major part of its Energy Harvesting and Storage USA 2015 event November 18-19 in Santa Clara, CA. Enquiries: Alison Lewis. Email a.lewis@IDTechEx.com

stop.The swinging of the arms of Komatsu construction vehicles creates electricity grabbed by large supercapacitors. HPEH lasting for hours or more is seen with sta- tionary applications in the main. That can mean remote buildings and road signs having a wind turbine for bad weather and solar panels for good weather. There is rapid progress in the application of HPEH and plenty of new technology is being prepared such 100 kWmagnetostric-

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