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LIGHT + CURRENT
Engineering with heart
In support of the Mayor of Msunduzi’s ‘Take a girl child to work
day’, consulting engineering firm Royal HaskoningDHV, played an
important role in exposing youth to the field of engineering, and
in particular the role of a consulting engineer.
On Friday 29 May 2015, Royal HaskoningDHV’s Pietermaritzburg
office hosted students from Sukuma Secondary School in Imbali
and Msumudi High School in Sweetwaters, exposing them to this
exciting career path. Over the course of the day, students were
exposed to the office as well as site environment engaging with
civil engineers, technologists and technicians.They gained insight
into the daily duties of a team focused on assisting Government in
improving the infrastructure of our country. Royal HaskoningDHV
is committed to growing our country’s much-needed engineering
skills, in both the public and private sectors. Without engineer-
ing skills there will be no provision of water, housing or roads. A
number of the students are part of Royal HaskoningDHV’s Saturday
Schools Initiative, which is a weekly programme where Engineers
and Technicians volunteer their time to tutor matric students in
maths and science. Others were from schools in and around the
Pietermaritzburg area. The first part of the day was spent on the
development of designs in consultation with government officials.
Thereafter students were taken to a construction site in Greytown,
one of a number of sites in the area that aims to eradicate the water
shortages in the Umzinyathi district. These projects demonstrate
that Government and engineers are hard at work in an effort to
improve our country’s infrastructure.
Enquiries: Hillary Erasmus.Tel. 011 798 6000
or email
Africa UtilityWeek
Voltex received a record number of visitors on its stand at African
UtilityWeek held at the CTICC from 12 to 14 May 2015. Positioned
as the global meeting place, conference and trade exhibition for
African power and utilities, this year’s event attracted over 6 000
attendees made up of utility heads, the continent’s leading renew-
able energy project managers, investors, technology providers and
international professionals.
Eighty-two percent of the at-
tendees were fromAfrica with
the balance coming from Eu-
rope, Asia and the USA. The
Voltex exhibit offered visitors
interactive product displays
of MV/LV Solutions - Distri-
bution Board, Weidmuller
enclosures, LSis circuit break-
ers, the Elspec Activar and a
25 kVA generator as well as
energy efficient solar light-
ing products. Not surpris-
ingly, the 25 kVA generator
and Activar were the talking
points on the stand. Shawn
Roets,Western Cape Regional
Manager, stated: “With the current instability in power,businesses
have no choice but to look for reliable standby power solutions in
order to keep their operations going.The 25 kVA generator therefore
attracted keen interest from prospective buyers, particularly in the
agricultural and commercial sectors”.
Enquiries: Email
Scelo Ngcobo (Royal HaskoningDHV) with students
Scelo Ngcobo (Royal HaskoningDHV) with students.
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