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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
the continent.
The winners:
• 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
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.zaDennis Ndaba (strategic communications)
Tel. 011 463 2022 or 073 981 2066 or
Winners of ‘CESA/Aon Engineering Excellence Awards’.
High Power Energy Harvesting takes shape
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ing (HPEH). Energy harvesting converts
ambient energy into electricity where it is
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HPEH typically converts short energy
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Think regenerative braking and planned
torque assist reversing alternators (TARA)
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returning a surge of electricity as they
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
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There is rapid progress in the application
of HPEH and plenty of new technology is
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Enquiries: Alison Lewis.
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