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var textForPages =["ANNUAL REVIEW 2014 / 2015\n","Contents\nPresident’s Report .................................................................................................... 2 CEO’s Report ........................................................................................................... 4 Strategic Communications ........................................................................................ 7 Finance & Staff (FINCOM) ...................................................................................... 10 School of Consulting Engineering (SCE) .................................................................... 11 Marketing & Communications Committee ............................................................... 14 Client Liaison .......................................................................................................... 18 Membership & Constitutional Affairs Committee ...................................................... 21 Supply Chain Management Committee .................................................................... 22 Quality & Risk Management Committee .................................................................. 24 Young Professionals Forum (YPF) ............................................................................. 26 Regional Reports ..................................................................................................... 29\n","President’s Report\nAbe Thela Nyeleti Consulting President\nMeeting Socio-Economic Challenges through Sustained Infrastructure Investment\nIn our 2014 presidential message we highlighted challenges and proposed solutions that needed to be implemented in order to allow the consulting engineering business sector to grow and be able to contribute in a meaningful way towards addressing the socio – economic challenges facing our country through infrastructure development and maintenance.\nI am excited to report that progress is being made in addressing some of these challenges as articulated in the 2015 Public Sector Supply Chain Management Review prepared by the National Treasury as well as the draft Preferential Procurement Regulations which were leaked to the public in July of this year. CESA, as the Voice of Consulting Engineers in South Africa, will continue to engage government for a favourable procurement framework for consulting engineering services.\nThis year we turned our focus on how infrastructure investment and skills development can be enhanced, with special attention given to levering private sector resources in this regard. The demand for both economic and social infrastructure far outstrips the available government purse.\nEnhancing Infrastructure Investment\nAccording to the NDP South Africa will need to spend at least 30% of its GDP on infrastructure development for infrastructure to contribute meaningfully towards achieving the goals set out in\nthe National Development Plan (NDP). Currently the country is only managing to achieve 22.9% of GDP on infrastructure spending with the public sector contributing 13.95% and the private sector 8.95% of this spend. The respective targets for the public and private sectors are 20% and 10%. At this spending rate KPMG projected an infrastructure investment spending gap of R6 trillion by 2030, which is a significant threat to the success of the NDP.\nWe identified the following as some of the avenues that can contribute to the increase in infrastructure spending:\nLeveraging private sector resources\nThere is untapped potential for the private sector to increase its investment in public sector infrastructure through the conventional Public Private Partnerships (PPP), as well as other arrangements for the private sector to avail its financial and human resources for the public sector infrastructure development. However there are obstacles that must be dealt with to realise and maximise this potential which include, inter alia,\n• dealing with misconception that the conventional PPP is ‘privatisation’\n• ensuring that the process followed is transparent, the project pipeline is clearly defined and that\nregulatory red-tape is removed, and the public must receive better and more cost effective services.\n","It is encouraging that Government at all levels is actively pursuing avenues to maximise private sector participation in public sector infrastructure investment. In July 2015 the Gauteng Government launched the inaugural Gauteng Infrastructure Investment Seminar, KZN Treasury hosted a successful Infrastructure Funding Fair yet again in June this year, and the Roads Agency Limpopo is looking at hosting a similar event. These are some of the initiatives that CESA participated in to explore the leveraging of private sector infrastructure for the benefit of all South Africans.\nAddressing inefficiencies in the procurement system\nCESA has, for some time now, been vocal about procurement related inefficiencies such as lack of planning, inappropriate procurement approaches, lack of project management capacity & capability, lack of other desired technical skills in the public sector, rampant corruption, etc. which cost the country billions of rands annually. We continued to call for Government to take a lead in addressing these inefficiencies to ensure efficient use of the Government allocated infrastructure budgets which will result in more infrastructure being developed with the same budget allocation.\nHuman capital development\nThe problems that continue to plague our country’s education system in both Basic and Higher education require long term solutions. With the future of many young South Africans at stake we as a country do not have time to waste. The question is: “Does the private sector have resources that can be leveraged to address these educational challenges in the interim, while long term solutions are being sought and implemented?” In our sector the answer is: “Yes – both monetary and human resources”.\nCESA and its members are already making a contribution to the education of our country’s young people through various initiatives organised and run by CESA as well as individual firms. I commend CESA members for this crucial role they are playing and encourage you to enhance your individual programmes. CESA is in the process of collecting and collating educational initiatives you are undertaking as its members, with a view of better defining programmes suitable for implementation by members and packaging those initiatives that will be better off run as a collective under CESA.\nJohn F. Kennedy in his inaugural address said these famous words, “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” I strongly believe that with the resources at its disposal, business, including consulting engineering, can do much more for the betterment of our country.\n","CEO’s Report\nWallace Mayne\nActing Chief Executive Officer\nThe year under review commenced with the unexpected resignation of Lefadi Makibinyane as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CESA with effect 31 January 2015 and the appointment of Wally Mayne as the interim CEO of CESA until the appointment of the new CEO which is expected to take place with effect from 1 January 2016.\nEarlier in the year, National Treasury (NT) released it’s 2015 Public Sector Supply Chain Management review, detailing problems with the existing system, many of which CESA had raised repeatedly\nwith Treasury. CESA also took the opportunity to meet with NT where we were warmly received\nand our suggestions were requested for incorporation into their revised system. In particular, the CESA ‘Position Paper on the Procurement of Consulting Engineering Services (PCES)’ was requested. The PCES was discussed with SABTACO with the view to providing Treasury with a jointly agreed document.\nThe Presidential media briefing was successfully held on the 11 February 2015, where the President launched his theme for 2015 as “Meeting socio-economic challenges through sustained infrastructure investment”, divided into the following areas:-\n• Social, political and economic realities • Increasing infrastructure investment\n• Human Capital investment\nThe Finance Minister’s budget speech boded well for the year prioritising spending on economic infrastructure such as roads and transport, electricity, water and sanitation with R274billion earmarked for construction maintenance repair and upgrade of public infrastructure in the coming fiscal year. Unfortunately however, the promise spend did not materialise and the sector experienced tough economic conditions resulting in most of the bigger member firms downsizing.\nDuring the year the CESA Council and Board met regularly and competently monitored and guided the operations of the Association.\nIn exploring the future of CESA, the Board decided to keep the structure of CESA as a non-taxable Voluntary Association and to form a taxable not-for-profit company (NPC) to cater for the profit making activities of the CESA School of Consulting Engineers and any other profit making activities as decided by the Board. Accordingly, the Constitution of the Association (CESA) and the MOI for its NPC were extensively amended to accommodate this organisational structure and were adopted at the AGM in November 2015.\nStemming from the gazetting of Revised Codes of Good Practice (RCoGP), and continuing from 2014, CESA participated in the negotiations for the alignment of the Construction Charter with the RCoGP. The alignment process has been long and arduous and at the time of writing has not been concluded although the views of the negotiating parties, being the Established and Emerging Groupings, are\n","narrowing and agreement seems likely in the medium term.\nCESA was able to send a number of delegates to the 2015 GAMA Conference held in Accra in Ghana in April 2015 where the South African delegates comprised one of the largest delegations to the conference. It is pleasing to report that through successful networking and lobbying, by inter alia\nthe CESA President, it was unanimously agreed to hold the 2017 GAMA Conference in Cape Town, hosted by CESA.\nThe CESA Annual Events being the Engineering Excellence Awards, the 30th Relay, the Presidential Golf Day and the Conference (rebranded as the CESA Infrastructure Indaba), were yet again successfully arranged by the Manager: Marketing & Events and her colleagues. Despite the tough economic climate experienced by the sector, the events were well attended and no financial losses were incurred mainly due to careful planning and generous sponsorships from the members. The financial support from members is highly appreciated.\nIn a similar vein, our thanks go to the Branch Chairpersons who in conjunction with Client Liaison Manager, ensured that the annual Presidential Visits were successful and of a high standard. Although the Presidential Visits entailed a hectic schedule for the President and the Acting CEO, it is clear that the visits are critical to maintaining continuity and communication with branch members and must be continued.\nThe CESA President together with the Acting CEO and Client Liaison Manager attended the 2015 FIDIC Conference held in Dubai. The main purpose of the delegation being to network and lobby extensively to promote the 2017 GAMA Conference to be hosted by CESA. A Conference Organising Committee comprising of a number of the African Member Associations who have recently hosted GAMA Conferences was formed to guide and obtain buy-in for the 2017 GAMA Conference.\nDuring the year a number of meetings were held with public sector clients with a view to promoting the standing of CESA membership and resolution of procurement problems. These included meetings with SANRAL, ACSA, DPW, dti, DWS, Eskom, National Treasury and Transnet. It is evident from these meetings that there is scope for CESA to assist the Clients as follows:\n• Apart from the national and regional liaison meetings with key Clients the CESA President and CEO should meet at least annually with the CEO’s of such Clients.\n• CESA should facilitate and arrange workshops with Clients to explore ways of appointing consulting engineers, mentoring of graduates etc.\n• CESA should assist key Clients in eliminating backlogs and solving procurement problems.\n• CESA should promote the use of/ assist key Clients with obtaining Private Sector funding for\ninfrastructure investment.\nCESA also met with public sector bodies such as cidb, DBSA and ECSA where discussions centred on the following areas:-\n• The development of the cidb Register of PSPs and PSP Management Systems which are long\noverdue\n• DBSA – joint training initiatives especially the mentoring and coaching of graduates leading to\nprofessional registration\n• ECSA – the Identification of Engineering Work as the application for exemption is still awaiting\nconsideration and approval by the Competitions Commission\nAs a highly successful first for CESA, the Bi-Annual Economic & Capacity Survey (BECS) was released to the media at breakfast functions in May and October 2015. At both events the CESA Service Provider gave presentations highlighting the main findings of the reports which were well\n","received and prominently reported on by the media. The BECS is a valuable analytical tool for the membership and the industry and it is pleasing to note that increasing numbers of members are participating in this survey.\nThe President and Acting CEO attended the African Investors Seminar in Cape Town on 2 June 2015 together with a number of CESA members. It was a very interesting and useful conference that dealt mainly with the funding and development of projects in Africa, North of RSA, especially with pre- feasibility funding. The conclusion was that there are definitely opportunities for members north of our borders.\nIn the HR field, one of CESA’s major successes was the recruitment of the Manager: Education & Training who has settled in well and is taking the SCE and its activities from strength to strength.\nIt is gratifying to report that the Directorate once again received their ISO9001:2008 Certificate during March 2015.\nIn keeping with CESA’s progressive transformation stance and commitment to mentoring and coaching, leading to the registration of the professional registration of graduates, the Board has approved the establishment of a Transformation & Development Committee under the chairmanship of the CESA President. The purpose of the Committee is to monitor and guide transformation and development initiatives implemented by CESA such as the Construction Charter alignment process.\n","Strategic Communications\nDennis Ndaba\nStrategic Communicator\nAt the beginning of the year, Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) was challenged when the Water and Sanitation Department imported 35 Cuban engineers, seconded to South Africa for a two- year term to share their expertise with their counterparts in the water sector.\nTheir arrival follows a bilateral agreement between South Africa and Cuba concluded in 2014 for co- operation in the fields of water resources management and water supply. Among the recruited Cuban specialists are: Civil engineers, Electrical engineers, Mechanical engineers, Irrigation and drainage specialists and Hydraulic engineers.\nCESA President Abe Thela warned that this practice is a worrying trend since Cuban engineering skills are not recognized by the Engineering Council of South Africa because they are not part of the Washington Accord that governs international engineering qualifications.\nThis was also happening at a time when our member firms are currently only being 60% utilised and have 40% spare capacity while they are waiting for the Government to bring projects on stream.\nPresidential Breakfast\nThe CESA President presented his presidential message and theme for the year: ‘Meeting Socio- Economic Challenges through Sustained Infrastructure Investment’. He focused on the role infrastructure plays in the socio-economic development of our country and how this role can be enhanced through an increase in infrastructure investment and skills development.\nThela stated that it is clear that the starting point for addressing the country’s socio-economic challenges is to increase investment in infrastructure development. In order for South Africa to address its socio economic challenges, both public and private sectors will have to increase their spending on infrastructure with the public sector needing to increase more.\nCESA has, for some time now, been aware that there are inefficiencies in the way public-sector infrastructure projects are implemented. These shortfalls include lack of planning, inappropriate procurement approaches, lack of project management capacity & capability, lack of other desired technical skills in the public sector, rampant corruption, etc. In addition these inefficiencies rob South Africa of multiple billions of rands annually, which could be effectively used to fund the much- needed increase in infrastructure investment.\nThere are a number of concerns regarding human capital development in the country and these require unique programmes focused on addressing them. These concerns must be addressed as a minimum: poor quality of basic education including Mathematics and Science; youth unemployed and unemployable; structure of the education system; youth with qualifications but without experience.\n","Thela believes that failure to tackle these challenges decisively with a systematic approach will deprive a whole generation of opportunities to develop their potential, escape poverty and support the country’s trajectory toward inclusive growth and economic transformation. CESA with the backing of our over 500 strong member firms recommit ourselves to partner with Government and other role players in finding lasting and practical solutions to these problems, especially in relation to infrastructure development.\nEngineering Consultants key to unlocking project pipeline\nCESA reiterated that there is a distinction between engineering consultants and consultants. Engineering consultants are registered professionals with the Engineering Council of South Africa. They are key to infrastructure delivery as they are front end leaders responsible for investigation, planning, design and construction monitoring of infrastructure projects.\nThe then Minister of Finance, Pravin Gordhan said in his medium-term budget policy statement in 2014, that the largest cuts to “reduce costs and eliminate wasteful expenditure” would be to the amounts spent on consultants. He added that there are of course necessary engineering and advisory services employed by government departments which bode well for CESA and its over 500 strong member firms employing over 23,000 staff. However, it needs better contract management and stricter control of consultancy fees.\nCESA has been vocal, open and honest with our dealings with the State and we have proper controls that require our members to perform their duties with integrity as we subscribe to the principle of business ethics.\nIt believes that the government should be spending more on engineering consultants in order to unlock projects and improve infrastructure spend and infrastructure delivery, which is necessary to alleviate inequality, poverty and unemployment.\nCESA’s Acting CEO Wallace Mayne said that the workload of engineering consultants is two thirds government work and a third is private sector work. The lack of engineering skills within Government leads to blocked project pipeline, poorly packaged bids to procure engineering services, delayed project implementation, inability to monitor service level agreements and implementation of projects.\nConsulting Engineers play a vital role in partnering with Government as their trusted advisors to ensure that sustainable solutions which provide both quality and value are procured by the various departments and at the same time providing skills transfer to mentor and train Government personnel to ensure continued service delivery.\nLaunch of BECS July to December 2014\nCESA hosted members of the media for the inaugural launch of the latest Bi-Annual Economic and Capacity Survey (BECS) July to December 2014, which indicates that after a more optimistic 2013, conditions in the first six months of 2014 appeared to have been less satisfactory.\nHighlights of the Survey include:\n• Economic growth is expected to remain muted over the next few years in view of government’s priority to re-balance the economy which includes cutting expenditure, and raising taxes. Growth will further be constrained by poor investor sentiment, electricity supply constraints, potential of labour strike action, and the threat of a further downgrade in SA’s credit ratings.\n","• Profitability was under pressure for particularly the larger firms, but stabilised for medium firms at a satisfactory level.\n• Payments outstanding for more than 90 days increased to 24 percent of earnings, largely due to a strong increase in payments outstanding by foreign clients. This also explains the negative outlook by larger firms.\nTen members of different media houses attended the launch. A suggestion was made that the release of the July-December 2015 BECS should include government officials and the media. CESA thinks this is a good idea as the BECS will be beneficial to the public sector as well in terms of helping it to make informed decisions pertaining to infrastructure roll-out.\n","Finance & Staff (FINCOM)\nThe Annual Financial Statements for the period March 2014 to February 2015 were approved by the Board, presented to Council, and issued with the Agenda for the Annual General Meeting for final ratification. The financial statements were prepared by Lloyd Viljoen Chartered Accountants (S.A.) The statement of changes in the amount of reserves for this period showing the total comprehensive surplus (deficit) for the year is summarised as follows:\nSue Davis\nManager: Finance\nLynne Pretorius ITS Engineers Chairperson\n2015\n2014\n2013\nCESA\n(1 735 297)\n(1 142 948)\n52 537\nSchool of Engineering\n450 227\n(77 590)\n(615 571)\nYPF\n22 692\n(12 106)\n2 405\nTotal deficit for the year\n(1 262 378)\n(1 232 644)\n(560 629)\nThe budget was for a breakeven budget and the total deficit is made up as follows:\n• Board approved loss on the 2014 CESA Relay of R 300 000\n• Marketing loss on events and affiliate partners of R 840 000 due to lack of sponsorship\n• CESA School of Engineering loss of R 150 000 as a result of staff changes and the economic\nsituation\nTotal Assets as at the 28 February 2015 amounted to R 8 422776; Total Liabilities were R 4 779\n546 and Accumulated Reserves for CESA, SCE and the YPF totalled R 3 643 230. The March 15 to February 16 budget is based on a 5% annual membership subscription fee increase and a projected surplus of R 500 000. Over the past 3 years the reserves have been depleted by losses totalling R 3 million and the forecast surplus will be used to replenish the reserves. The deferred balance for the Litigation fund is R 970 520. The staff complement is 16 full time staff members, plus the vacant post of CEO. Changes to staff over the past year are as follows:\n• Lefadi Makibinyane resigned from the position of CEO in January 15 and Wallace Mayne was appointed Acting CEO until such time as a permanent suitable replacement is finalised.\n• Pummy Mzolo was appointed Manager: Education & Training from the 1 June 15\n• Prudence Mutangiri filled the vacant post of receptionist in May 15\n• Andile Jele obtained her BCom and left CESA in December 14. Athrometh Motaung was\npromoted from SCE Bookkeeper to CESA bookkeeper to fill this vacancy.\n• Caroline Raborife was promoted from reception to the position of SCE bookkeeper\nThanks go to the FINCOM committee members for their support and guidance throughout the year. Appreciation goes to the accounts department for their consistent hard work and dedication.\n","School of Consulting Engineering (SCE)\nThe main purpose of the School of Consulting Engineering (SCE) is to provide opportunities to enhance business, professional and entrepreneurial skills for consulting engineers, its clients and any other interested parties in the built environment.\nCPD Course\n11 new Courses were up and running during 2015:\n• An introduction to Macros and VBA in Excel • CESA Forms of Agreement\n• Claims Cast in Concrete\n• Concrete Floors and Pavement\n• Concrete for Contractors Consultants\n• Durability & Repair of Concrete Structures\n• Introduction to Claims & Dispute Resolution using FIDIC contract • Microsoft Excel plus-Qualification for competency diploma\n• Pivot Tables for Consulting Engineers\n• Practical Project Risk Management\n• Transition to ISO:9001:2015\nAn E-learning platform for Health and Safety modules, where member firms will get 15% discount is being investigated with a global company (NOSA).\nBusiness of Consulting Engineering (BCE) and Management of Consulting Engineering (MCE)\nThe Business of Consulting Engineering training programme has been offered by the School of Consulting Engineering since 2012. During its first three years, about 38 students successfully completed the programme, and all indications are that about 15 to17 students will graduate from the 2015 class. By the end of the year each student will have attended three one week contact sessions at the SCE Training venue in Bryanston, Johannesburg and they will also have completed 50 assignments at home together with a number of group activities. The programme involves a lot of commitment and hard work.\nA highlight of the year was the Certificate Award Ceremony for BCE 2014, which took place on 8 June at the SCE Training Venue. The occasion coincided with the second contact session for the 2015 BCE Class and was a very successful event, when the “old” and “new” students got to know each other. This format will be followed in future and hopefully be expanded to become a significant event on the CESA calendar.\nThe BCE programme has been hugely successful, and without exception, every student who has attended has claimed to have benefitted enormously from the programme.\nApplications to register for BCE 2015 got off to a slow start, and at the beginning of the year there\nPummy Mzolo\nManager: Education & Training\nAlbert Geldenhuys Aurecon Chairperson\n","was a real possibility that there would be insufficient students to make the course viable. However, after a huge marketing effort by the programme conveners, applications started flowing in and eventually we had to put up the “house full” signs, which was great news. The biggest lesson learnt from this exercise was the need to intensively market the programme and to make direct contact with the decision-makers in CESA Member firms.\nAt present, the BCE programme is run by four module conveners, Craig Clarke, Celia Mullane, Zulch Lötter, and Ivor Evans. All four have a huge amount of experience working in consulting engineering firms and Craig, Zulch and Ivor are all Past-Presidents of CESA. They are backed up by a team of about twelve highly qualified specialist subject experts who present on a variety of subjects. The students are thus exposed to the highest possible standard of learning experience. Nearly all\nthe present team has been together since the inception of the BCE programme, and they have all indicated their willingness to continue for the immediate future, but the conveners are keen to bring fresh blood on board and to have new presenters and conveners who will continue to take the programme forward into the future.\nDevelopment of the advanced Management of Consulting Engineering training programme reached a point in 2014 where it is now nearly ready for introduction. However, after taking into account\na number of factors, not the least being the current tight market conditions for the consulting engineering industry, it was decided that we should hold back until a more opportune time before introducing the programme. However, as mentioned, development of the MCE programme is at an advanced stage, and it can be finalised and brought to a state of readiness at short notice.\nUndoubtedly, apart from ensuring that we reach our target of 25 students for 2016, the greatest challenge faced by the BCE programme is to ensure the programme’s accreditation by the end of 2015. A number of discussions were held with various Business Schools in 2014, but the conveners are determined that we will conclude the matter by the end of the year.\nCESA/SABTACO-CETA Candidacy Programme\nWe are now in milestone eight, i.e. end of year two and have received over R6 million from CETA up to milestone six not up to milestone eight. We have experienced a number of challenges with the programme. The programme started with 150 candidates, 12 are registered, we are now left with 89, 50 new were replaced due to non-conformity, others left and new ones were selected. CETA informed us that we cannot replace candidates after one year, which is not within their policy. We therefore ended up with less candidates which equates to less income.\nIt is with disappointment that we note the high rate of dropouts and non-responsive candidates. Various suggestions have been made to look at trends within companies and selection criteria, this is believed to be the responsibility of companies to comply. It is must also be noted that CETA only funded Quantity Surveyors and not Engineers, a funding model that is not assisting in eradicating skills shortages within the engineering sector.\nLiesel Kirsten (The CESA/SABTACO Project Manager) also reported that only 50 organisations have been penetrated who now fully understand what needs to be done and how the CETA discretionary grant funding model works. It is believed that the challenging period with non-payments experienced in December 2014 is now over, things are now improving, with the next payment expected soon.\nEngineers in Practice Series DVD/Webcasting Programme (Life Long Learning Solutions – LLLS)\nThe SCE still contributes extensively to the Engineers in Practice series DVD/Webcasting Programme, that is a dedicated pay-to-view CPD Programme on DVD and webcasting platforms. It is aimed at assisting engineers and construction professionals to earn their CPD points and in so doing helping\n","them to fulfil their statutory re-registration requirement.\nEducation and Training Committee\nAlbert Geldenhuys will be stepping down at the end of the year as the chairperson- we wish Albert all the best with his future endeavours and thank him for the work he contributed to the committee during his tenure.\nHuman Resource (HR) Forum\nA new chairperson Mevashnee Naidoo from Knight Piésold was nominated during the period under review, since the previous annual review, the HR Forum held 6 Meetings which were attended by HR personnel from CESA member firms. Topics discussed included updates on the Construction Charter Council and Revised BBBEE of codes of Good Practice and how to treat secondments in South Africa. CESA is currently investigating running a trust to help non-member firms.\n","Marketing & Communications Committee\nBonolo Nkgodi\nManager: Marketing and Events\nPrint Advertising\nCESA took the decision to advertise in various publications in a form of advertorials such as in Infrastructure Magazine formerly built, Engineering News, Careers Unlimited and Business Day, which published a feature on the 28th August 2015, focusing on the CESA Aon Engineering Excellence Awards funded by member firms. In order to make the feature viable CESA had to make a contribution to the costs of the feature.\nSocial Media\nCESA embarked on a social media drive to create an awareness about the organisation and educate viewers about what the organisation is and to grow the brand in the online space.\nFacebook\nThe page grew by 4212 fans\nThe Page was seen 330667 times by 222864 users\nDemographic age bracket: 18-35 years\n4569 stories where created by 4254 people\nAverage reach per post: 1400\nTotal reach: 107370\nAverage People Talking About Page: 14\nTotal people talking about Page: 801\nAverage engagement per post: 7, 31 % (Facebook standard is between 5% and 6%) Total engagement per post 5, 22%\nTwitter\nThe handle grew by 643 followers The handle was mentioned 400 times Messages sent: 252\nMessages received: 250\nClicks: 6\nRetweets: 168\nLinkedIn\nWe have over 500 connections on the CESA LinkedIn page and we are experiencing more and more engagements since we have started to post Press Releases and some of our events.\nCESA continued to enjoy extensive coverage in both the business and technical press at very little cost to the Organisation. Newsworthy issues have been timeously reacted to in cooperation with the Strategic Communicator and bolstered by the social media platforms. Appropriate radio interviews on topical issues have been aired and CESA has started to receive coverage on television both on the news channels as well as learning channels of DSTV, ANN7, ENCA, Dagbreek and 404.\nJoe Mojapelo Senapelo Consulting Engineers cc Chairperson\n","2014/2015 has been a very active year for Marketing and Communications at CESA. An independent Advertised Earned Value (AVE) report, that tracks every time the CESA brand is mentioned in the media, indicates that, for the period July 2014 to end June 2015, CESA received the following: media coverage to the value of The Total Advertising Value Equivalent (AVE) for both Online and Print from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015 amounts to R 4 125 164, where Total Print is R1 576 189, with total Online: R 2 548 975.\nEvents\n2014 CESA Annual Conference and Exhibition – 09 to 11 November\nThe CESA Annual Conference took place at the Legend Lodges in Limpopo from the 9th to 11th November with the theme – ‘Together Sustaining Engineering – Delivering NDP Priorities’. There was a strong focus on the delivery of the National Development Plan (NDP). In total over the two days, 150 delegates attended the conference with a total of 130 individuals attending all the social events and conference.\nThe CESA Conference provided an opportunity for members to interact and exchange best practice with clients and industry relevant organisations, namely: eThekwini Municipality, City of Cape Town, City of Polokwane, City of uMhlathuze, Transnet, Eskom, SANRAL, National Department of Public Works, Limpopo Public Works & Infrastructure, Thulamela Municipality, CIDB, ECSA, SABTACO, DBSA, Department of Higher Education, IMESA and Corruption Watch. This ensured lively panel discussions and plenty of opportunity to debate the key issues driving the NDP.\n2015 CESA Aon Engineering Excellence Awards\nA reputable Awards evening of acknowledging and celebrating a feast of engineering talent was hosted by CESA at the Vodaworld Dome in Midrand on the 12th August 2015. The CESA Aon Engineering Excellence Awards event maintained the same high standard set in previous years. This year we had an increased number of sponsors who made it possible for this prestigious event to take place – Aon, ACSA, BEPEC, Bosch Holdings and Santam.\nBelow is a table with the results:\nCATEGORY\nMEMBER FIRM & PROJECT\nRESULTS\nProjects Greater than R250M\nMoroff & Kuhne for The Point Commercial Development for Berman Brothers Group and HCI\nWinner\nRSV ENCO HATCH GOBA Coal Joint Venture for the Brandspruit Mine – Impumelelo Shaft Project for the SASOL\nCommendation\nHatch Goba for the Umgeni Road Interchange for SANRAL\nCommendation\nAECOM for the Acid Mine Drainage - Central Basin for Trans Caledon Tunnel Authority\nCommendation\nProjects Between R50M and R250M\nBosch Projects for the Bronkhorstspruit Biogas Project for Bio2Watt\nWinner\n","CATEGORY\nMEMBER FIRM & PROJECT\nRESULTS\nKnight Piesold for the Rehabilitation of Main Road between Atlantic Road, Muizenberg and Clovelly Road, Clovelly Phase 2: Leighton Road, St James to Kalk Bay Harbour Entrance for the City of Cape Town\nCommendation\nSFC Engineers Aurecon Joint Venture for Sunday’s River Bridge for SANRAL\nCommendation\nProjects Less than R50M\nRoyal HaskoningDHV for the New Microbiological Laboratory for the National Bioproducts Institute\nWinner\nHenry Fagan & Partners for the Kirstenbosh Centenary Tree Canopy Walkway “Boomslang” for the South African National Biodiversity Institute\nCommendation\nBest International Project\nBigen Africa as part of the Botswana North South Carrier 2: Water Transfer Scheme for the Botswana Ministry of Minerals, Energy & Water Resources\nWinner\nBusiness Excellence\nBigen Africa\nWinner\nMentoring Company of the Year\nBigen Africa\nWinner\nMentor of the Year\nColin Andrews from Royal HaskoningDHV\nWinner\nVisionary Client of the Year\nDevelopment Bank of Southern Africa\nRecognition\nYoung Engineer of the Year\nMakotsene Makgalemele from HHO Africa\nWinner\nBranch of the Year\nKwaZulu Natal\nWinner\nJob Shadow Month\nUWP\nWinner\nRoyal HaskoningDHV\n1st Runner Up\nHatch Goba\n2nd Runner Up\nInfraconsult\n3rd Runner Up\nPublisher of the Year: Trade Publications (Recognition)\n3S Media\nRecognition\nPublisher of the Year: Daily Newspapers (Recognition)\nIndependent Newspapers\nRecognition\nCongratulations to all Award recipients and a huge thank you to all those that entered into the Awards!\nCESA Consultants Relay - Gauteng\nThis annual sporting event, hosted by CESA was held at the Eagle Waters Resort, Hartbeespoort on Saturday, 29 August 2015. This year we had just over 320 teams participate in the Walk/Cycle/Run/ Tug-O-War/Volleyball categories. Sponsors & partners included:\nGold Sponsor: Nyeleti Consulting\nSponsor for Hospitality Tent: Eagle Waters & Nubian Touch\n","Water Sponsor: Aquelle\nPartners: SRK Consulting, Knight Piésold, UWP Consulting, AECOM, Golder Associates, SMEC,\nWSP, AOS, Jeffares & Green, WorleyParsons, Aurecon, Royal HaskoningDHV, Zitholele Consulting Infraconsult, Spoormaker, CSV Water, PH Bagale, Ingérop, L&S Consulting, Sobek, MSW Consulting, MPA Consulting Engineers and CATA & Provincial Recreation Council.\nWe also had the students from two Universities, Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) and the University of Pretoria (Tuks) participate in the Relay this year.\nTo all members that participated in this ever successful family fun day, a big Thank You. Special thanks to Eagle Waters Resort and Nubian Touch for sponsoring the CESA hospitality tent.\nCESA Consultants Relay - KwaZulu Natal\nThis annual sporting event held on the 1st of August 2015 at Summerveld Jockey Club, Shongweni was a great family day of sports and fun, attended by 800 participants. Activities included the main relay event where teams may enter the walking, cycling or running categories, tug o’ war, volleyball, obstacle courses as well as activities and entertainment for the kids.\nPresidential Golf Challenge\nThe CESA Presidential Golf Challenge was held at Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Course during October and was a huge success. CESA would like to thank all member firms that participated in helping to achieve yet another successful Golf Challenge. It was an exceptionally successful day and this success was achieved due to support from members, clients and suppliers to the Industry.\nExhibitions\nThis year CESA participated in the following Exhibitions in order to enhance the brand visibility and to create stronger networks with clients:\nAfrica Engineer - UNESCO Africa Engineering Week 2015 IMESA – 27 to 30 October 2015.\nAffiliates\nDuring the year under review CESA actively engaged with the Organisation’s Affiliates in order to maximise relationships with existing Affiliates and encouraging new Affiliates to join. CESA is proud to be associated with the following Service Providers to the industry with whom we have an Affiliate Memorandum of Understanding (MOU):\nAon\nSilversoft Nedbank MarelliMotori\n","Client Liaison\nGodfrey Ramalisa\nManager: Client Liaison\nCESA continues to influence and lobby for the implementation of best practice and for a conducive procurement environment for consulting engineers to work in, to enhance the quality of life of the people. Looking back at the year that was, CESA would like to report activities, engagements and in some instance collaborations and partnerships which were formed. Client collaboration for this year include but is not limited to the following clients:\n• Johannesburg Road Agency – Managing Director\n• City of Tshwane – Executive Mayo & MMC: Economic Development & Planning - City of Tshwane\n• Department of Water and Sanitation – CESA is participating in a committee comprising of various\nwater stakeholders looking at establishing a new Operating Model for the Water Sector. We still\nhave to do much to liaise with the department at Director General and Ministerial level.\n• Department of Public Works - DPW’s Professionals Association Liaison Forum (PALF) met only\nonce this year under the auspices of the Construction Industry Development Board.\n• CESA was invited by the Minister of Public Works, Thulas Nxesi to a workshop with a turnaround\ncommittee on capacitating the head office and 6 regional offices. The process culminated into\nCESA presenting a capacitation proposal to the department.\n• Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs – CESA is involved in the Department’s National\nMunicipal Capacity Coordination and Monitoring Committee, National Capacity Building Framework and Local Government Learning Network and Integrated Urban Development Framework\n• Transnet – CESA together with SABTACO and Transnet, led by a Supplier Development Executive, are engaged in a process to establish a liaison committee, called Transnet Build Professionals Forum.\n• National Treasury - CESA continues to participate on NT’s Cities Support Programme - in collaboration with the Infrastructure Delivery Improvement Programme: Cities Infrastructure Delivery and Management System Stakeholder Group\n• Built Environment Stakeholder Workshop on Infrastructure Delivery Management System\n• CESA participated in the IDMS workshop organised by the Council for the Built Environment and\nNational Treasury’s Government Technical Advisory Centre.\n• SANRAL’s Four Regions and Executives\n• Eskom – CESA, part of Major Voluntary Associations, and ECSA participated in the Chairman of\nEskom Board’s Recovery and Build Program Committee (BRBP) to talk about Eskom’s Recovery\nand Build Programme and the support of the Engineers of South Africa.\n• The Presidency – Young Professionals engaged with the Presidency, in particular, Mr Buti Kgwaridi\nManamela who is the Deputy Minister in the Presidency responsible for Planning Monitoring and Evaluation, youth development as well as the Administration of the Presidency at the Young Professionals Imbizo.\n• Construction Industry Development Board– this year, the cidb has resuscitated consultations aimed at establishing the Register of Professional Service Providers and Professional Service Provider Recognition Scheme, National Stakeholder Forum & BEP Liaison\n• KwaZulu-Natal Treasury – CESA partnered with the KwaZulu-Natal Treasury in hosting the KwaZulu-Natal Infrastructure Fair and talks are underway to support CESA in establishing an Infrastructure Trust.\n","Transformation\nTransformation, development and empowerment of emerging/ small and medium consulting engineering firms in large and mega public sector projects remained on the CESA agenda. A transformation and development task team was established. The online CESA Directory of Small and Medium Firms is being kept up-to-date to allow members to form partnerships and easily access potential small and medium consulting engineers for Enterprise Development purposes\nAkwaaba...! Ghana, the land which has been in the forefront of African emancipation hosted the FIDIC GAMA 2015 Conference themed “Developing and sustaining Africa’s infrastructure; promoting intra-regional partnership.’ The conference provided a perfect platform to discuss factors inhibiting the growth of the consulting engineering industry in Africa and make proposals for promoting and strengthening inter-regional partnerships amongst consulting engineering firms in the African region. The Republic of South Africa was awarded the rights to host the FIDIC GAMA 2017 conference.\nJob Shadow Day – ‘A Day in the Life of a Consulting Engineer’\nJob Shadowing firms: BVi WC; Makhaotse Narasimulu & Associates; ARUP; BMK Consulting; Malani Padayachee & Associates; Bigen Africa; Civil Concepts; Royal HaskoningDHV; Bosch Stemele; Hatch Goba; UWP Consulting; PRDW; ILISO Consulting; Zitholele Consulting; SMEC and Infraconsult\nparticipated.\nThe initiative began in 2006 and is aimed at unearthing South Africa’s future engineers and leaders. High school learners are given an experience like no other: they get a chance to imagine, live, work and play engineering – opening their minds to a world of possibilities and careers that make the difference to society.\nThank you very much for your continued support and participation in the CESA Job Shadow Initiative. Without your commitment and willingness we will not be seeing the success and growth of this movement and increase in the number of learners entering the engineering profession.\nCESA would like to once again congratulate the Job shadowing Firms and our pupils for being winners, in particular UWP Consulting - overall winner, Royal HaskoningDHV - first runner-up and Hatch Goba - second runner-up and Infraconsult for the CESA YPF Job Shadow Poster Competition.\nYoung Professionals Sustainability Imbizo – Sustaining the FUTURE of Engineering\nThe Sustainability Imbizo, which took place in Kempton Park, Gauteng, from 11-12 August 2015, celebrated and honoured 11 women for their special contributions and achievements in the construction and consulting engineering industries by being recipients of the 2015 CESA YPF Special recognition Award:\n• Inba Thumbiran\n• Dr Snowy Khoza\n• Dania Magugumela\n• Malani Padayachee-Saman • Nyami Mandindi\n• Dr Michelle Kruger\n• Noqobo Bongoza\n• Kieren Brown\n• Liesel Kirsten\n• Gugu Moloi\n• Melanie Kemp Hofmeyr\n","Marelli Motori designs and manufactures generators and electric motors since 1891.\nWe supply rotating electrical machines for a variety of industries and applications:\nMarine sector Power generation Cogeneration\nOil & Gas Hydropower Industrial motors\nVisit MarelliMotori.com\n","Membership & Constitutional Affairs Committee\nThe Committee is chaired by Olu Soluade (AOS Consulting Engineers (Pty) Ltd) who has served on the Committee since 2009. Craig Northwood (UWP Consulting (Pty) Ltd) has recently joined the Committee. The Acting CEO, Wally Mayne, also gives considerable assistance to the Committee. Membership currently stands at 537 member firms employing 24 366 personnel.\nThe application process has been streamlined to include the Application Checklist being made available to prospective members with explanations and links to relevant documents.\nThe Committee has been tasked with reviewing the Constitution to allow for other skills for example financial and legal etc.,to form part of the Board.\nGillian Wands\nAdministrative Officer\nOlu Soluade AOS Consulting Engineers Chairperson\n","Supply Chain Management Committee\nThe Committee met regularly during the year and meetings were held on 15 January, 8 May, 30 July and 21 October 2015.\nThe year commenced with the introduction of Pieter van Niekerk as the new Chairman of the Committee. During the year the Committee dealt with the following strategic projects:-\n• The CESA/BEP Procurement Position Paper – this document which was based on the Procurement of Consulting Engineering Services document developed by CESA in the preceding years and deals with the public sector procurement regime and the problems faced by BEPs in tendering for public sector projects\n• The compilation of the guideline RFP/Brief for Professional Services – this document is in the process of being compiled in order to assist State Entities including municipalities, in preparing adequate, comprehensive and informative tender documentation, including specifications and Scope of Works, when tenders are called for.\n• Construction Sector Charter Council – although not intimately involved in the Charter Alignment process, the Committee kept a watching eye on the process and made input where deemed necessary.\nFeedback/confirming the CESA position to the Established Grouping in the Construction Charter Alignment process was prepared following extensive consideration.\nWallace Mayne\nManager: Contractual Affairs\nPieter Van Niekerk PVNPS Chairperson\nElement/Item\nEMERGING BEP position\nESTABLISHED BEP position\nCESA position\n1-4 years\n5-7 years\n1-4 years\n5-7 years\n8+ years\n1-4 years\n5-7 years\nOwnership (BO) > R100m\n35.0%\n30%\n32%\n34%\n32.5%\n35.0%\nOwnership (BO) R6m - R100m\n32.5%\n30%\n30%\n30%\nOwnership ESOPs\n5.0%\n6.0%\n5.0%\n5.5%\n6.0%\n5.0%\n6.0%\nOwnership (EMEs) (BO)\n>100% = Level 1\n>100% = Level 1\n>100% = Level 1\n>51% = Level 2\n>51% = Level 2\n>51% = Level 2\n< 51% = Levels 4\n< 51% = Levels 4\n< 51% = Levels 4\n< 35% = Levels 5\n< 35% = Levels 5\n< 25% = Levels 6\n< 20% = Levels 6\nSkills development\n2.18%\n1.85%\n2.1%\n2.5%\n3.0%\n2.1%\n2.5%\nAutomatic enhancement\nBO>75%\nUp 2 levels\nNo automatic enhancement as not mentioned in RCOGP (2013)\nNo automatic enhancement\nBO>51%\n• CESA Anti-corruption initiative – the Committee was kept informed as to progress and made\n","recommendations when necessary. In response to this it was recommended to the Board that the CESA hotline be scrapped. CESA would remain a channel for reporting corruption. The Committee also requested that the Board approve Corruption Watch as a “partner”.\n• CESA Advisory Services initiative – under the watchful eye of the Committee and its Chairman, CESA responded to the request of DPW to act in an advisory role in the Eastern Cape and to assist with the reduction of the backlog of DPW projects since 2011.\nFees\n• The issue of members discounting fees in order to win work for their firms was discussed extensively during meetings and it was concluded that the problem had been exasperated through the exclusion of Quality from the PPPFA points scoring system. The Committee is of the view that the critical role of Quality in the tendering process should be recognised through the reinstatement of Quality in the public sector procurement process. It was recommended that cidb Method 4 be reinstated.\n• A major problem with fees pertaining to multidisciplinary projects such as building projects\nwas highlighted and discussed by the Committee. The problem being that for a multidisciplinary team the basket of fees comprising the individual disciplinary fees is limited by the developer and the individual fees are proportionately reduced by the team leader, thus severely disadvantaging engineering fees, which unlike the other disciplines have not increased over the years and are difficult to estimate prior to the detail project scope being finalized.\n• The Committee recommended that CESA publicise the message that low fees encourage short- cutting of detail inputs leading to mistakes and the forfeiture of Quality by clients.\n• Upstream vs downstream work – this matter which was discussed at length by the Committee, entails the very strict interpretation of the word “involved” in Clause 27(4) of the MFMA Regulations, by the City of Cape Town to exclude Service Providers with minimal involvement in upstream work from tendering for downstream work. At the instigation of the Committee, a meeting was held with Treasury to seek their assistance and intervention and a letter was drafted in a similar vein to the Minister and DG of Finance.\n• Perceived shortage of engineers – the Committee reacted to persistent government and media statements that South Africa is experiencing a shortage of engineers by saying member firms are only 60% utilised and that the available infrastructure spending by the public sector is only sufficient to sustain the existing number of engineers.\n• CESA Forms of Agreement – the Committee took its responsibility for the CESA Forms of Agreements very seriously and requested that a training course be arranged for the four Forms of Agreement published by CESA as follows:-\n• Model Professional Services Agreement\n• The Agreement for Sub-Consultancy Services\n• The Short-form of Agreement and the\n• Joint Venture Agreement – A Service Provider was contracted and a number of training courses\nhave been held in this regard.\n• cidb’s Register of PSPs and PSP Recognition Scheme – CESA was represented at workshops held\nby the cidb, by two Committee members and CESA Managers. These developments are supported by CESA and they will go a long way to regularising our sector.\n","#AskAon\n","Quality and Risk Management Committee\nThe Committee met regularly during the year and meetings were held on 16 January, 6 May, 7 August and 12 November 2015. The year commenced with the introduction of Dr Michele Kruger as the new Chairman of the Committee in place of Efious Mugwagwa who had stepped down as Chairman of the Committee due to work pressure. During the year the Committee dealt with the following strategic projects:-\nThe Risk Management Implementation Guideline (RMIG) –\n• This document which was developed by the Committee and finalised at the end of the previous year, was printed and distributed to member firms free of charge as the result of a generous sponsorship by a member firm.\n• The RMIG Manual was successfully launched at the ‘Saving the Pajero 3’ Seminar held on 18 March 2015. The Seminar was well organised by the Committee and intended to raise awareness of and the pressing need for Risk Management amongst members. The seminar was well-attended and a small surplus was realised for the CESA coffers.\nThe Quality Implementation Guideline (QMIG) – The questionnaire designed to ascertain members’ use of the QMIG and QMS in general was again disseminated with the Annual Declarations and the results captured electronically for analysis. It is considered that the Committee will be able to report a trend in this regard once the results of the next survey (2016) are known.\nCESA Practice Notes – As reported in the previous Annual Review when the CESA Practice Notes were updated and re-indexed, the Committee planned to hold two seminars promoting awareness and the use of the Practice Notes. One seminar would be for the general membership and one would be for the Young Professionals. Unfortunately the Seminars had to be postponed to early 2016 when a sufficient number of delegates will be attracted to enable the event to breakeven.\nMatters in common with the Supply Chain Management Committee (SCM) – Because the Quality & Risk Management Committee (Q&RM) deals with risk-related activities across the spectrum of consulting engineering activities, there are a number of areas of risk to members where the Q&RM Committee discussion overlaps that of the SCM Committee as follows:\n• ECSA Fee Guidelines\n• ECSA Identification of Engineering Work\n• CESA Forms of Agreements & Contract Documents\n• Alignment of the Construction Charter with the Revised Codes of Good Practice\nPublic sector procurement regime\nWallace Mayne\nManager: Contractual Affairs\nDr Michele Kruger CSV Water Chairperson\n","MAKE\nPROFESSIONAL BANKING\nHAPPEN\nWith a banking experience from Nedbank that works as hard as you\ndo and caters for both you and your family.\nWhether you are operating as a specialist in your field, quickly climbing the corporate ladder or simply looking for a professional banking experience that emphasises convenience, quality and flexibility, our Professional Banking package is the answer. 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Authorised financial services and registered credit provider (NCRCP16).\n12748\n","Young Professionals Forum (YPF)\nJeshika Ramchund: ILISO Consulting Engineers YPF National Chairperson\nAs we reflect on the period under review, we have much to be proud of and a myriad of lessons to carry forward in our objectives and activities.\nLast year marked the momentous 10th anniversary of CESA YPF celebrating young professional’s (YP’s) in consulting engineering and the positive contributions that they have made over the years.\nOur activities centred on reiterating the role of YP’s by taking up industry issues that affect the environment within which we operate and to mobilise positive change for now and the future. As engineering professionals doing business, we have a responsibility to be the champions of innovation despite procurement limitations and economic cycles. We have made great strides in reaching out to our members and to get feedback so that we can truly achieve our objectives. In doing so we ensure that we provide a platform for YP’s to network, to grow personally and professionally.\nThrough our links with other statutory bodies and voluntary, associations, member associations within GAMA and FIDIC, CESA YPF offers its members the opportunity to connect with the best local and international technical specialists and business practices. Our commitment to the future of the engineering profession is deeply entrenched within our objectives. The annual Job Shadow Month, schools and tertiary institution visits and co-hosting career expo’s are a few of the ways that we give back. We have inculcated a love for mathematics and physical science in learners at school and encourage high school learners to take up a career in engineering.\nThe CESA YPF National Survey and the Annual CESA YPF Sustainability Imbizo have been instrumental in dictating the mandate of the YPF.\nOver the past year CESA YPF has grown in stature and numbers with membership steadily increasing. CESA initiatives have seen an increase in participation from YP’s at Branch and National levels.\nCESA YPF Operations\nThe CESA YPF elections during August 2014 brought in a well-represented and enthusiastic National Committee. The CESA YPF Executive Committee consisted of the following members:\nChairperson – Jeshika Ramchund (ILISO)\nVice- Chairperson – Keamogetswe Mmekwa (PH Bagale)\nTreasurer – Phylicia Moseamo (GIBB)\nMember – Sisanda Dyubhele (J&G)\nMember – Duncan Pascoe (PRDW)\nCESA Official - Godfrey Ramalisa\nYoung Engineer of the Year 2014 - Makotsene Makgalemele (HHO Africa) Immediate Past Chair - Likhaya Nkonki (Carifro)\nThe national committee included representation of Chairpersons from branches across the country. At regional and branch level, activities were on-going. The YP participation levels at YPF and CESA events are steadily increasing.\n","Gauteng North, chaired by Mosa Tsoai of Bigen Africa, hosted a seminar on Investments and Personal Finance Presentation by Discovery, a technical College visit and a Mandela Day event.\nGauteng South, chaired by Keamogetswe Mmekwa of PH Bagale, hosted a Meet & Greet, the famous Great debate, Mid-Vaal career guidance talk, Quiz Night and Joint Financial Talk with SAICE YMP.\nKwazulu-Natal, chaired by Ashley Sewmungal of Hatch Goba then Yolan Pillay of RHDHV, hosted a Kick-off meeting in January, an ECSA Workshop on the New Registration System, participation in the CESA Presidential Visit, annual Action Soccer tournament with 16 teams participating and a Mandela Day CSI initiative at Girls and Boys Town.\nEast London /Border Kei, chaired by Tania Seeger of GIBB, hosted a Meet & Greet action bowling tournament at Hemmingway’s, CESA/SAICE Beacon Bay Career Day, Bridge Building Competition and participated in the CESA Presidential visit.\nPort Elizabeth, chaired by Jacques Jordaan of Lukhozi, hosted a Trivia night attended by 43 people, a Who’s who in the zoo meeting aimed at creating awareness of Built Environment to improve collaboration between the Built Environment Professionals in PE sponsored by Sanlam, participation in the Corporate Ironman and CESA Presidential visit.\nWestern Cape, chaired by Michael Vice of Jeffares & Green, hosted the various committee meetings to date, renewing membership interests by contacting member firms in Western Cape, volleyball tournament with 120 people, Touch Rugby tournament with 90 participants, Investments and Tax - Personal Finance Workshop sponsored by PPS.\nFree State branch, chaired by Sechaba Kou of UWP then Andisiwe Rweqane of Aryx hosted a strategic Kick-off Meet & Greet, Career Day with Engineering Students at Free State University, and a Finance talk hosted by Sanlam focused on Personal Risk Management.\nMpumalanga branch, chaired by Nomfundo Masuku, Limpopo, chaired by Tendani Ramutsindela of Aurecon then Lesley Manganyi of Nyeleti, Northern Cape, chaired by Mahlomola Letele of Aurecon and the North-West branch, chaired by Tshifhiwa Booi of Lotshephe participated in the CESA Presidential Visit and the JSI Initiatives.\nWorking Committees\nCESA YPF has established working committees focusing on specialised areas:\nMembership, Activities and Events\nThis working committee focuses on growing YPF membership through awareness and advertising, co-ordinating visits to Member Firms to engage with YP’s, co-ordinating National Activities such as the Job Shadow Day Initiative, Annual Conferences, Exhibitions, CESA YPF Imbizo, Schools Visits and CSI initiative as well as to maintain the CESA YPF National calendar, collating branches activities and feedback.\nCapacity Building\nThis working committee focuses on Education and Training to deal with professional registration issues, constraints and solutions in conjunction with registration bodies, publicising courses offered at the CESA School of Consulting Engineering, driving the Business of Consulting Engineering programme to YP’s. The Quality and Risk focus is to elevate the implementation of Quality, Sustainability and Business Integrity Management Systems at an operational level for YP’s and to explain, distribute and present Practice Notes to YP’s.\n","Communications and Marketing\nThis working committee focuses on the collation, production and distribution of newsletters, updating the Social Media platforms, updating material on the CESA website\nFinance\nThis working committee focuses on maintenance and sourcing of YPF sponsors, budgets and branch finances\nNational Events\nCESA YPF actively participated in the 2014 Annual CESA Conference at the Legends Lodge in Limpopo. A record number of YP’s were in attendance with YP’s actively participating in the conference and the discussions.\nCESA YPF was well represented at the 2015 GAMA Annual Conference in Accra, Ghana. The GAMA Conference is the annual gathering of consulting engineering member associations in Africa. CESA YPF was represented with a number of YP’s from South Africa in attendance. GAMA YPF celebrated its second year in operation with a YPF function preceding the conference for a meet and greet with the GAMA and FIDIC directorate. This gathering was also aimed at encouraging the formation of YPF’s in other African Member Associations.\nThe conference focused on “Developing and Sustaining Africa’s Infrastructure through promoting intra-regional partnerships” where Jeshika Ramchund delivered a presentation entitled ” Building capacity through guidelines for mentorship and graduate development programmes” focusing on holistic capacity building in Africa. Following the GAMA conference, Jeshika Ramchund was elected as the Vice-Chairperson of the GAMA YPF and Keamogetswe Mmekwa was elected into the GAMA YPF steering committee.\nThe 2015 CESA YPF Job Shadow Initiative proved to be more than just a poster competition, but an empowerment initiative aimed at growing engineering skills in South Africa and showcasing “A Day in the Life of a Consulting Engineer”. CESA YPF wishes to congratulate the many firms that participated in the JSI Initiatives and to those who entered posters into the competition.\nYP’s from across the country volunteered their time to share their personal experiences concerning the work they do and the challenges they face on a daily basis and the skills required to ensure they perform and achieve the desired outcome on their projects. The school learners were taken through projects, put through challenges, quizzes and experiments. The learners were familiarised with the requirements for pursuing a career in the Engineering sector and the respective tertiary education options.\nSuch initiatives are worthwhile in exposing students to the world of engineering and to understand the logic and innovation that forms the basis of engineering.\nCESA YPF has concluded another successful year of operation. We look forward to the next productive period.\n","Regional Reports\nAbe Thela Nyeleti Consulting President\nGauteng South Branch\nBranch Committee and Committee Meetings\nThe Branch Committee comprises about 6 committed individuals, who attend Branch Committee Meetings. The Branch has had regular committee meetings throughout the year. Although attendance by committee members has been erratic, the Branch has successfully completed some major events.\nBranch Presidential Visit\nThe combined Gauteng South – Gauteng North Branch Presidential Visit took place on 20 March 2015. The event took the form of a panel discussion, with the following panellists:\nMr. S. Macozoma – (Former) MD of the JRA\nMr. S. Pillay – MMC for Economic Development and Planning, City of Tshwane\nMr. A. Thela – CESA President\nThe event was facilitated by Mr. W. Moraka of SALGA. The event was well attended, and positive feedback was received after the event.\nSAICE Civil Talk\nThe branch partnered with SAICE in hosting a Civil Talk. The event was held on the 11th of June 2015 at the new Waterfall City Conference Centre. The panellists were Nazir Alli and Dr. Andrew Shaw. The event was very well attended, and was a successful collaboration between SAICE and CESA.\nFuture Events for the Year\nA Branch Event (AGM) is being planned towards the end of the year. This may again take the form of a Branch Breakfast.\nCESA Members AGM and Guest Speaker Breakfast - tba\nIt was decided that the Annual General Meeting will take place simultaneously with a guest speaker in October 2015. Date to be confirmed.\nKwaZulu Natal Branch\nBranch Meetings\nTwo branch committee meetings have taken place this year on the 9 February 2015 and 29 June 2015 with further meetings to be held in September 2015.\nNew Committee Members\nRudi von Fintel and Dexter Mdlala were co-opted onto the committee by unanimous decision.\n","Client Liaison Meetings\nSANRAL/CESA/SAFCEC/SABTACO Client Liaison Meeting took place on 13 May 2015 attended by CESA Members Dawie Erasmus, Mark Weedon and Rudi von Fintel.\nIlembe District Municipality/CESA Client Liaison Meeting was held in July 2015 attended by CESA members Mark Weedon and Bonga Ntuli.\nFurther Client Liaison Meetings have been scheduled and report back will take place once meeting is concluded.\nMember Activities\nPresidential Breakfast Visit – 13 March 2015:\nPresidential Visit and Guest Speaker Breakfast event was held at the Elangeni Hotel. President, Abe Thela along with Acting CEO Wally Mayne were in attendance. Mr Tim Madgwick (KZN Treasury) was the guest speaker. The event was attended by 80 members including 10 YPF delegates.\nKZN Treasury Funding Fare – 22 July 2015:\nMembers were invited to participate in this initiative based on the invitation received by KZN Treasury to partner with CESA National on upliftment projects via sponsorship received from Santam.\nConsultant’s Relay – 01 August 2015:\nHeld at the Polo Pony Club in Shongweni;\n19 Registered companies participated;\n850 participants in the events;\nEvent financial status is positive;\nEvent was attended by CESA President, Abe Thela and Acting CEO Wally Mayne.\nYPF Activities\nECSA Professional Registration Drive – March 2015 40 delegates in attendance\nAction Soccer – March 2015\nAction Soccer matches were held in Durban.\n16 Teams from different companies were in attendance; Approximately 200 participants.\nPresidential Visit – March 2015 15 YPF were in attendance.\nMandela Day CSI Initiative – July 2015\nBoys Town Visit.\nCESA Relay – 1 August 2015\nOrganised by the YPF. 19 Companies registered with 850 participants.\nLaunch of Aecom YPF Platform – 5 August 2015 CESA YPF Presentation took place.\nYPF General Survey – June 2014\nYPF General Survey of the Industry took place in June.\nFurther activities have been arranged for the latter part of the year:\nMaths & Science Matric and Grade 11 Workshop – October 2015 Transnet Port Visit – Technical Site Visit date tba.\n","CESA Awards Banquet 12 August 2015\nKZN was awarded the Winner of the Branch of the Year Certificate at the CESA Aon Engineering Excellence Awards held on 12 August 2015.\nWestern Cape Branch\nThe Western Cape Branch initiated various activities over the past year to encourage the participation of its members as well as develop a platform for input at various governmental and private levels to further the growth of Consulting Engineers.\nThe branch had various events to highlight specific topics that is current and pressing in the industry and to provide an opportunity for members to interact and have discussions on the state of affairs.\nOne event focused on the provision of Public Private Partnerships (PPP) as a delivery vehicle for projects to government. The meeting took the form of a discussion panel that included various high-level role players from the construction sector, consulting fraternity and the private sector. The discussions allowed for input from member firms to develop a deeper understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of this procurement method.\nAnother function took on the topic of excessive fee discounting by members firms during public procurement processes. For this meeting we invited a leading professional indemnity insurance provider to present their findings in the trends linked to this type of discounting. Our acting CEO also gave input on the activities of CESA National as feedback to the branch.\nWe were privileged to be invited as CESA to partake in a discussion panel at a local Construction Expo in Cape Town. At this event we had the chance to partake in a ministerial level discussion\non the state of the construction sector and the challenges faced by the industry and by consulting engineering firms in particular. Our concerns about the current procurement regulations in the public sector were raised and well received by the various provincial ministers in attendance. We hope to build on this interaction to take our discussion forward on a provincial level.\nOverall the industry had a very challenging year with regard to low levels of capital investments by clients and a sustained pressure on professional fees due to the procurement methods that is utilized. We are however optimistic that the near future of the construction industry and the consulting industry in particular will make a turn for the better in\nthe Western Cape.\nNorthern Cape\nBranch Meetings and AGM\nBranch Meeting No. 1 (2015) and the AGM (2014) were held as a joint sitting on 16 February 2015. A new Branch Executive Committee (BEC) was elected to replace the Interim Committee established in May 2014. Meeting No. 2/2015 was held on 11 June 2015 with 20 attendees. The branch secretary left the province and a new secretary was elected at the meeting. An employee from ESKOM was co-opted as vice secretary to try and involve the affiliates more. Branch Meeting No.3 is scheduled for September 2015 and the final meeting and AMG 2015 scheduled for November 2015.\nYPF\nAn YPF committee exists but is not as active as they should be. Work needs to be done to assist the YPF to get active, visible and vibrant to create CESA awareness amongst the young professionals in the province. Subsequently, a work group of 5 young professionals were elected at Branch Meeting\n","No.2, to revive the YPF and act as an interim committee until we formally elect and launch the new committee at the AGM in November 2015.\nPresidential Visit 2015\nPresidential Visit 2015 was a success with over 37 attendees from member firms, affiliates and clients. The guest speakers were senior managers from various Government Departments, which included Economic Development & Tourism, DWS - Water & Sanitation and COGHSTA - Co-operate Governance Human Settlement & Traditional Affairs. The presidential topic was unpacked in the form of a panel discussion and presentations from each guest speaker.\nWe look forward to host the new President in 2016 and will attempt to continuously grow the event annually.\nOther Events\nMandela Day\nThe YPF work group’s first ever charity event focused on young people changing lives of others. It was a successful community event which involved the raising of funds to donate toiletries to a local old age home as part of CESA`s 67 minutes effort for Mandela day. The member firms represented by the branch committee were challenged to raise funds internally which also promoted involvement amongst members. The youth was invited to assist at the old age home where time was spent with the residents. The event was overall a great success and a firm foundation to build from in future.\nThe way forward\nIncreasing the numbers of CESA members and strengthening the brand of CESA in the province are our main priorities. To achieve the aforementioned greater visibility and recognition is needed and therefore an awareness campaign is intended for the year ahead.\nThe lack of enthusiasm in our YPF committee is a big concern. The Youth are the leaders of tomorrow and the future voice of all industries; therefore we are committed to getting the YPF committee back on track to execute their duties.\nSome innovative ideas are required to reach more members and non-members in the province in the coming year. Thus CESA NC will sponsor and host a hole at the Northern Cape Construction Golf Day, which is an existing big annual event which attracts all disciplines involved in construction and the building industry. We will use this platform to raise awareness and as a stepping stone to launch our own annual event in future.\nWe are very excited about the way forward and looking forward to reaching our goals. As an energetic and innovative branch we are ready to work for CESA so that CESA can work for us.\n","","Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA)\nPhysical Address\nFulham House\nHampton Park North\n20 Georgian Crescent Bryanston\nJohannesburg, South Africa\nPostal Address\nPO Box 68482\nBryanston\nJohannesburg, South Africa 2021\nCantacts\nTel: +27 (011) 463 2022 Fax: +27 (011) 463 7383 Email: general@cesa.co.za Website: www.cesa.co.za\n"];