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var textForPages =[" Annual Review\n2021\n www.cesa.co.za\n "," A glimpse into success for engineering firms in 2022 and beyond\nTechnology will keep transforming the way we do engineering\n How are you using innovative tech in your firm?\n www.silversoft.co.za/industries/architecture-engineering\n"," President’s Report 4 Chief Executive Officer’s Report 6\n Finance & Staff Committee\n8\n Table of\nAdvocacy Committee\n Contents\nEducation & Training Committee\nYoung Professionals Forum\nMembership & Constitutional Affairs Committee\n10\n 12\n 14\n Quality & Risk Sustainability Management Committee\n16\n 18\n Marketing & Communications Committee\n20\n Supply Chain Management Committee\n24\n Transfromation & Development Committee\n26\n CESA Branches\nConsulting Engineers South Africa (CESA)\nPhysical Address\nBalvenie, Kildrummy Office Park, c/o Witkoppen and Umhlanga Rd, Paulshof, Johannesburg, South Africa\nPostal Address\nPO Box 68482, Bryanston, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2021\nContacts\nTel: +27 (011) 463 2022 Fax: +27 (011) 463 7383 Email: general@cesa.co.za Website: www.cesa.co.za\n29\n3\n "," President’s Report\n Sugen Pillay - Zitholele Consulting\nCESA President\n2021 started off on a sombre note, as the country continued to grapple with the effects of the pandemic and the ongoing, seesawing levels of lockdown. The Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan (ERRP) was barely gaining momentum, as government continued to focus on addressing the pandemic and the vaccine rollout programme. Against this backdrop, CESA adopted as its theme for 2021, “Rebuilding with Purpose”.\n 4\nThe core messages that were emphasised in the theme, and that CESA endeavoured to spread throughout the year were the following:\n• Infrastructure development needs to be re-engineered so that it consciously addresses issues of poverty, unemployment, and underdevelopment.\n• As Built Environment Professionals, we can positively influence the infrastructure development process so that these issues can adequately be addressed.\n• Built Environment Professionals are key to implementing the ERRP and to ensuring that the best outcomes are achieved from investment in infrastructure.\n• Engineers, in particular, need to continue to guide and influence the infrastructure discourse.\n• Engineering is not about providing infrastructure, but rather about enabling successful societies and communities\nto flourish. It is ultimately about people.\nHence, the 2021 message emphasised that as we embark on this massive rebuilding project envisioned in the ERRP, let us try to rebuild in a conscious and ‘mindful’ manner, so that rebuilding doesn’t just become about providing infrastructure, but that it is consciously engineered to address poverty, inequality, and unemployment. As Consulting Engineers, we most certainly have the power to positively influence these outcomes.\nCESA continued with its many engagements with government to spread this message and to actively seeks partnerships with regard to infrastructure development. We had many well attended virtual ‘branch visits’, where we interacted with client bodies at a local level. We were again reminded of the many challenges that local government faces, particularly with procurement processes as well as the audit process.\nTo this end, we also embarked on a more general ‘Protecting lives and livelihoods’ campaign through social media and radio platforms. The objective of this campaign was to provide more information to the general public about the work that Consulting Engineers perform, and why it is critical that appropriately qualified and experienced Engineers are actively involved in all phases of the infrastructure delivery process.\nWe were once again invited to participate in the Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium SA, where I participated in a panel discussion that included the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, as well as other learned colleagues in the infrastructure space. I again made a strong case for the public sector to meaningfully collaborate with the private sector to ensure that we have better outcomes in terms of our infrastructure development programmes, as well as to utilise private sector capacity and expertise to supplement the limited capacity that is available in the public sector.\nWe have continued our engagement with Infrastructure South Africa (ISA), and I believe that we are making good\n "," President’s Report\n progress in this regard. ISA has constituted Technical Working Groups (TWG’s) that are focussing on various sectors, including Transportation, Water and Sanitation, Electricity, etc., and CESA volunteers are assisting these TWG’s to focus on projects that could be catalytic in nature, and importantly that could attract private sector investment into infrastructure development. We have therefore also started engaging with the private sector, as they are important clients to many of our member firms.\nOur Infrastructure Indaba, although held virtually, was a notable success in that we’re able to have fruitful discussion and debate with a wide range of stakeholders in the built environment.\nMy two-year term comes to an end at the end of 2021. The ride has been bumpy, but we have made steady progress in advancing the interests of our member firms. I offer my sincere gratitude to the directorate, as well as to the many volunteers that generously give of their valuable time to support CESA in the work that we do. I wish the new leadership much success going forward.\nThe riots that erupted in July this year had a considerable negative impact on the little progress that was being made through the ERRP. Soberingly, it reminded us how fragile democracies actually are, and that they do need to be nurtured. Democracy is becoming less and less meaningful to those in our society that are stuck in poverty, with no access to basic services, and with little or no opportunities.\nIn addition, the recent local government elections have thrown up some interesting results, although the results were not completely unexpected. What is critical for us as practitioners is that we are entering a new era of coalition politics and coalition local government. As engineering practitioners, we cannot be blind to the political and socio- economic realities of the day, but the better we are able to ‘separate’ politics from technical decision making, the better the outcomes are going to be in terms of infrastructure development.\nThe preservation and deepening of our precious democracy will depend entirely on the success of the ERRP and, interestingly, on the maturity of coalition politics. As Consulting Engineers, we are placed in a unique position where we can actively and positively influence the outcomes of our infrastructure decisions. If we embrace the rebuilding project with renewed purpose, we will fulfil our obligations to the communities that we serve.\n 5\n "," Chief Executive Officer’s Report\n Christopher Campbell\nCESA CEO\nAs 2021 rapidly slips away, one cannot help but be optimistic about the future and hope that the past becomes but a distant memory of a year we hope never to be repeated, at least in respect of many of its less memorable aspects.\n 6\nWith an already ailing economy slipping closer and closer to the precipice, though arguably we may have gone over the edge already, with the Minister Ngodongwana in a recent NEDLAC Forum realistically stating that we should now be in the process of managing the landing and recovery. All of this continuing to be exacerbated by ongoing corruption and lack of committed leadership, at the worst of times, we witness unemployment slide to over 40%, poverty levels increase to levels where South Africa has attained the unenviable title of being the most unequal society at a Gini coefficient of 0.63, highest among all the Countries globally deemed to fit this profile. Coupled with our continued inability to bring to justice those who have willfully exercised influence to reduce our Beloved Country to this parlous state, it becomes more and more important to remain hopeful and involved in trying to arrest this trajectory towards a failed state, if not for current generations then at least for future generations. The undoing of over 13 years of post-apartheid growth took us at least the same amount of time, over the past 27 years of our new democracy and we should not be overly optimistic that the recovery will be realised in any less time.\nAs the apex organization for the Consulting Engineering industry, we started the year filled with hope that we would rebound from the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic and start to bring to reality the intentions expressed in the economic recovery plan. The availability and rollout of vaccines early in the year started to give more hope that this would make for more continuity in the activities required to revitalize the economy. The kick-off being as expected of a government that has been good at policy and intention but really bad at implementation, was admittedly slow with demand exceeding supply. Presently and unfortunately so, with poor information and ill-informed decision making, the levels of vaccine hesitancy has led to supply exceeding demand. We had set out to achieve at least 70% of the population vaccinated by December, unfortunately it looks like we may struggle to achieve 50% by year end. This of course means that we will not be able to minimize the impact of yet another wave of Covid 19 before year end and the concomitant restrictions which will yet again be a setback for an economy in dire straits.\nAmidst all of these challenges we managed to fully implement online training having gone through some of the teething problems in 2020. The pandemic had indeed assisted in accelerating both our ability to do so as well as the uptake by employees of many member companies who had found themselves working from home. This year the subscription to our flagship leadership development programme, the BCE was at its highest ever at 20 participants compared to previous years when we rarely exceeded 16. This is clear testimony of the successes of this developmental programme by the industry for the industry. The CESA Executive team commenced with online meetings with member companies, ensuring that along with the increased communication generally shared with members, we progressively made direct contact with members, a process which admittedly will take time with a member base that has grown from 580 in 2020 to the present-day number of 630 over the past year. Attempts at trying to convene a Forum for CEOs of our member companies has for unknown reasons been unsuccessful and at best we can hope that this is related to time and availability, rather than to the unfortunate apathy that one sees amongst many volunteer organisations these days. We have nonetheless exploited all available communication platforms, including social media to ensure that we are continuously communicating with members and advocating\n "," Chief Executive Officer’s Report\nfor the industry.\nFurther recognition of the value that we add as a sector, is our involvement in focused stakeholder consultations with National Treasury, SANRAL, Department of Water and Sanitation, Development Bank of South Africa and Infrastructure South Africa, to name but a few, all of which have been ongoing through the course of the year. Through being appointed to serve on the Ministerial Task Team of the Public Service Administration to give input to the Framework for Professionalising the state, of course being painfully aware that unless the tide of cadre deployment is reversed, all of this work would have been in vain, we continue to be optimistic. Driven by the adage “ex nihilo nihil fit - nothing comes from doing nothing” is sufficient motivation for investing time and resources to improve the competency levels in the public sector, a major client of our member companies.\nBranch visits this year were conducted online and it was interesting to observe that the opportunity for members to attend any or all of these, notably when we had guest speakers from client bodies, was well utilised and provided opportunities to share challenges and solutions across branches.\nAs the secretariat host of FIDIC Africa, we managed a successful online conference for the FIDIC regional body and shortly thereafter, our own Infrastructure Indaba online as well. Recognising the need for networking and general Zoom platform fatigue, we opted for a somewhat different platform this year. The inclusion of exhibitors and the opportunity to network virtually was indeed well received by many attendees. The recognition of CESA both locally and globally is such that we play a pivotal role in many industry related organisations, where for example we are part of the Construction Alliance South Africa (CASA) management committee an organization borne out of the 2020 restrictions placed on the construction sector which now seeks to be instrumental in the development both of the industry recovery plan as well as in the development of a Masterplan for the Industry. We form part of a core team of volunteers working on resuscitating the operations of the Construction Sector Charter Council and have secured a seat on the Board of Business Unity South Africa (BUSA). Internationally, as the chair of the FIDIC Member Associations Directors and Secretaries Council, I have found myself serving as a non-voting member of the FIDIC Board, raising the profile of CESA and our local industry. Such is the recognition that we enjoy, that we have yet again been selected as a Winner in the FIDIC Member Association Awards for strategic advocacy of our industry for our ‘Protecting Lives and Livelihoods’ campaign from among 106 member countries.\nOur Presidential Golf day hosted as our only in-person event this year was indeed well received and clearly an indication of a desire shared by many to network and interact in person with clients, suppliers and fellow companies in our industry.\nThe year ended, with the hosting of our annual flagship Engineering Excellence Awards event, once again showcasing the innovation and delivery management capabilities of our members, together with celebrating this year’s future leaders, the industry lifetime achiever and media partner of the year, all of whom form part of the CESA ecosystem. Finally, it would be remiss of me to not acknowledge the efforts of many of the volunteers to our committees, the Branch Chairs, the Board and the CESA Executive Team who have made it possible for us to run like a “well oiled” machine, albeit at times not being as successful as what we would like to be. Indeed, following the 69 years of our existence, we have achieved much more than what we give ourselves credit for. We are now heading towards our 70th year and we aim to serve our members, the industry, our institutional partners and our various stakeholders with renewed vigour.\n7\n "," Finance & Staff Committee\n Sue Davis-Clark Olu Soluade - AOS Engineers\nManager: Finance, HR & Admin Chairperson\n 8\nAnnual Financial Statements Feb 2021 – Voluntary Association\nThe annual audit for the Voluntary Association was compiled by VLA Auditors. As a result of the risks and restrictions related to the Covid-19 pandemic, a number of CESA events and activities which had been included in the budget, had to be cancelled or changed to online events.\n• The AON CESA Awards was held as a virtual event, and the CESA Golf Day was cancelled. The Presidential branch visits were held via Zoom. There was no in-person attendance to the FIDIC and FIDIC AFRICA conferences, though there were some costs for online attendance.\n• The School of Consulting Engineering (SCE) had to cancel all scheduled courses with little notice and transform to online platforms.\n• These changes resulted in under-expenditure on budgets for meetings, travel, and representation at conferences etc, but also greatly reduced training income for the SCE particularly during the first few months of the 2020 lockdown period.\n• Taking cognisance of the cashflow delays that member would have been facing, many were given the option of paying their membership fees over a period of 3 months. In some cases, further payment plans were made available. It is noted that all outstanding debtors’ balances were settled by the time of the annual audit conducted during May 2021.\n• The end result in the operational budget was an overall surplus of R 774 500\n• The pre-approved use of reserves by the Board for contributions to the Solidarity Fund (R 200,000) and for\nfunding the Special PR Campaign (R 118 600) were offset by the positive balance for the financial year and subsequently then, R 455 900 had been allocated to retained earnings.\nTotal Assets of R 15 986 070 include Non-Current Assets of R 580,634, and Current Assets of R 15 405 436. Equity\nis R 10 726 642 which includes Retained Earnings of R 11 414 364 and Reserves of (R 687 722). of R 5 259 428 include Trade and other Payables of R 4 945 492 and Provisions of R 313 936.\nThe Reserves are contributions and distributions recognised directly in equity are as follows:\nCurrent liabilities\n• Legal fund\n• CESA Young Professionals Forum (YPF)\n• CESA School of Engineering (SCE)\nR 522,589\nR 390 938 - R 1 078 660\n "," Finance & Staff Committee\nFinancial Statements - Cesa Non- Profit Company (Npc)\nThe SCE traded in the Non-Profit Company for a few months before the pandemic resulted in a couple of months of no training. Due to the revised budget for the SCE the decision was made to cease trading in the NPC as the income projection was no longer required to satisfy the split of income between members and non-members for tax compliance purposes. In addition, the additional costs involved with running another company were not sustainable for the SCE in the current climate. Financial statements were prepared by VLA Auditors for the brief period of trading. The loss of R 140 192 was transferred to the CESA VA balance sheets as an impairment loss as the carrying amount of the asset is triggered by a decline in its fair value. When we resume trading through the NPC and the company’s assets increase above this value the impairment will be reversed. There are no income tax implications as a result of the loss.\nThe School of Engineering will commence trading in the NPC again from the 1 March 2022\nCurrent Financial Period – March 21 To February 22\nThe operational budget for this period forecasts a breakeven budget. There were a number of unknowns due to the pandemic and the forecast was managed on an ongoing basis as events unfolded. The FIDIC and FIDIC AFRICA Conferences were held online, as were the CESA Indaba and Awards. The Golf Day was held in-person in October. There were no in-person Presidential branch visits as these were also held online. Membership has remained stable with little fallout of existing member firms, and good growth in new members, with an estimated growth in membership of close to 7% contributing to a 1% growth in subscription revenue.\nAs a result of the reduction in operational expenses due to the changes in these activities, the current forecast bottom line will likely be a positive balance. There are still a number of events that need to be finalised before final projections are possible, especially where service providers had been commissioned and final reconciliation figures for these have not been available at the time of preparing this report. The Awards ceremony was held in November as a virtual event and the CESA School of Engineering still has a few months to go to the financial year end.\nThe PR Campaign was identified as a Special project by the Board and is running over a 3 -year period at a budget of R 1 500 000. The cost for this campaign had been approved by the Board to be funded from the Retained Earnings. The first year the cost of R 118 600 was covered by the surplus from the operational budget. The current year cost of R 713,000 will be partly covered by the operational budget surplus.\nProvisional Budget March 22 To February 23\nThe draft budget was presented at the AGM and the forecast is for a breakeven, which provides for in-person events and attendance at conferences as the rollout of the Covid 19 vaccine and the issuing of vaccine certificates will make it possible to do so, albeit that we may see these being conducted as hybrid events, taking advantage of the opportunities that the use of technology has made possible. Following four years of not increasing membership subscription fees, the Board, recognising the need to ensure the long term sustainability of the Organisation, approved the proposal for an inflation related subscription increase, to be tabled at the Annual General Meeting for ratification.\nDirectorate Staff\nThe staffing of the Directorate has remained stable at 16 full time staff members. We have experienced only two cases of staff having contracted Covid 19 over the past 12 months, thankfully non-fatal, both of whom have fully recovered since. All staff members have been vaccinated and our offices have been open for business on a managed basis, observing all Covid 19 protocols, according to the risks related to the trends in the Covid 19 infection rates in the Country as published by the Department of Health on an ongoing basis.\n9\n "," Education and Training Committee\n Vishal Haripersad - Knight Piésold Brenda Lacey-Smith\nChairperson Manager: Education and Training\n 10\nThe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has tested the School of Consulting Engineering’s (SCE) ability to deal with huge disruptions, in ways we could not have imagined. However, the school’s swift response to replace face-to-face courses with online learning has been a great success in reviving the school. There are numerous times now where the SCE delivers two to three courses per day. The trainers and the delegates have also adapted extremely well to the new concept and mode of delivery for training. Our ability to react effectively and efficiently to the crisis brought on by the pandemic has been the silver lining and the pivotal change the SCE needed for many years.\nThe Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) has partnered with Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA), the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE), and SAICE Professional Development and Projects (SAICE-PDP) to create the Built Environment Capacity Building Professionalisation Programme (BECBPP), which aims to offer expert services and support to organisations wishing to professionalise. This programme will assess the capacity and current development needs within the public sector, and thereafter develop the graduates towards professional registration. Including developing consulting engineering practices, who are carrying out consulting engineering services for public sector projects.\nThe SCE has been advising and assisting the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure (DPWI) and their consultant, on how to align their Labour-Intensive Construction (LIC) Orientation training course material to CPD standards and norms.\nPRDW Consulting Port and Coastal Engineers and CESA, through the SCE, have been appointed as service providers, to conduct a skills audit and value chain analysis for the Small Harbour’s Development Sector.\nThe SCE currently has an extensive array of over 100 courses of the highest quality, that covers a wide variety of topics. It has over 30 trainers who are subject matter experts in their field, and all have numerous years of experience. Each course is followed by an online quiz, which if passed, the delegate’s online CPD certificate is issued immediately.\nThe SCE has entered into an MOA with the Association of Consulting Engineers, Botswana (ACEB), whom has chosen several SCE courses, and is currently in the process of getting the courses CPD validated with the Botswana Institution of Engineers (BIE).\nThe Business of Consulting Engineering (BCE) Development Programme started off the year with 22 students, however, two students dropped out during the year. It has been an extremely challenging year for the students with working remotely, and other health problems, however, we are expecting 20 students to write the online exam in November 2021.\n "," Education and Training Committee\nThe SCE has presented several in-house courses for clients such as eThekwini Municipality, MINTEK, Mpumalanga Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Land and Environmental Affairs, NHBRC, Rand Water Academy, Transnet Freight Rail (RME), as well as companies such as Volkswagen Group South Africa, Civils 2000, Mavco Engineering, Phingoshe Holdings, and several member firms.\nThe HR Forum online meetings are well attended by over 50 HR practitioners and others. A wide variety of topics have been discussed this year such as UIF e-Compliance online portal, POPIA, Feenix Bursary Funding, the CESA Salary Survey and Bargaining Council for the Civil Engineering Industry as well as many vibrant discussions relating to the COVID-19 pandemic.\nCESA has received its Certificate of Recognition as an Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) CPD Licensed Body in terms of Section 4 of the CPD Standard for the licence period 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2023. This provides CESA with the power to verify CPD Service/Training Providers as well as validating CPD Category 1 Activities (i.e. course, conferences, e-learning programmes, webinars, and workshops etc) for CPD credits\n 11\n "," Advocacy Committee\n Sugen Pillay - Zitholele Consulting Godfrey Ramalisa\nCESA President Manager: Stakeholder Liaison\n 12\nStakeholder Liaison\nCESA continues to conduct regular meetings of the Advocacy Committee to bolster the critical industry activities of liaising and partnering with public and private client bodies and other relevant stakeholders. Three critical issues were raised with clients and partners in order to improve the delivery of engineering services and basic services to our people, namely:\n• Technical/engineering capacity within the Government\n• Procurement of professional service providers, in particular engineering consultants, and\n• Infrastructure delivery management and engineering services that are central to the success of the National\nDevelopment Plan (NDP) and the latest strategy, the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan.\nParticular attention is being given to the best methods for procuring engineering services on various platforms, namely collaboration with relevant organisations, a media campaign, presidential visits and the CESA Indaba. The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) was invited to share their preferred method, Qualification Based Selection (QBS), at the CESA Indaba.\nCESA concluded an awareness campaign titled “The important role of all stakeholders in the development of South Africa’s Public Infrastructure”, that aimed to encourage clients to appoint CESA members and targeting government’s infrastructure departments and units. Over 200 client bodies were reached via email. It highlighted the many responsibilities that are carried out by engineers and built environment professionals working for government to ensure value-for-money and sustainable delivery of services through infrastructure projects.\nCESA has adopted a holistic approach to client engagement through Stakeholder Liaison, Contractual Affairs, Education and Training and Marketing and Communications Portfolios and targeting clients’ participation at events. CESA continued to participate and collaborate with the other relevant engineering and built environment organisations.\nPartnerships\nCESA maintains numerous relationships and partnerships to represent the interests of our members and to best position consulting engineering for future success. These include, but are not limited to, the following clients/ organisations:\n "," Advocacy Committee\n • BUSA — Business Unity South Africa, a valuable channel for policy formulation through NEDLAC, amongst other platforms\n• BEPSA — Built Environment Professionals South Africa consisting of the Association of Construction Health\n& Safety Management (ACHASM), the Association of Construction Project Managers (ACPM), the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors (ASAQS), Institute for Landscape Architecture in South Africa (ILASA), South African Black Technical & Allied Careers Organisation (SABTACO) and the South African Institute of Architects (SAIA).\n• CASA — Construction Alliance South Africa (CASA) a historic initiative which has united the construction industry under one umbrella body made up of some 34 professional, contractor, supplier, manufacturer, and other allied industry bodies - essentially the construction value chain.\nCollaboration with other allied organisations included the South African Forum of Civil Engineering Contractors (SAFCEC), the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) and the South African Council for Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP). Others are Cement & Concrete SA, formerly known as The Concrete Institute (TCI), the Joint Building Contracts Committee (JBCC), the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA), and the Institute of Municipal Engineering of Southern Africa (IMESA).\nRegional Interaction\nThe 2021 presidential visits were hosted on virtual platforms. More participants joined the webinars compared to the previous in-person events. CESA hopes to continue with this format except for Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape branches. CESA’s presidential theme and strategic intent for this year was “Rebuilding with Purpose” — the importance of quality, integrity, and accountability in South Africa’s road to recovery. Local clients presented on work opportunities, including issues and solutions impacting the delivery of services through infrastructure. Young professionals and branch chairpersons participated in the discussions about best practice procurement — engineering services and engineering skills pipeline, entitled: Growing our own timber or leadership is planting trees under whose shade we’ll never sit.\nEmpowerment initiative\nCESA Youth best practice webinars: Leadership and management\n• We continued with our developmental initiative and leadership seminars aimed at closing the skills gaps in the engineering environment through empowering the youth. Underlying the reach for the webinars is the philosophy that sharing of unique experiences by senior consulting and public engineers could result in more informed young professionals who would make informed choices, either to grow within the organisation of their employment or to start their own consulting engineering firm. This was organised in the form of virtual events.\n• The virtual events, supported by Aon South Africa and Old Mutual, provided an excellent opportunity for engineering leaders/speakers to relate their own life stories and expertise coupled with best practice, under the following topic/s: Engineering, business and entrepreneurship; personal and professional development path and leadership and management\n• Three (3) sessions were hosted during 2021\n13\n "," Young Professionals Forum\n Renee Petersen - SMEC Godfrey Ramalisa\nYPF Chairperson Manager: Stakeholder Liaison\n 14\nAs the young voice of consulting engineering, the CESA Young Professionals Forum through its objectives aims to:\n• Create an awareness concerning the engineering industry and profession.\n• Promote the development of high-quality professionals within the engineering industry.\n• Address relevant issues which affect Young Professionals.\n• Foster, cultivate and understand relationships with client bodies, ECSA and recognised Voluntary Associations\n(VA’s).\nTo achieve these objectives, Young Professionals are afforded opportunities to volunteer their time to actively participate in various regional and national activities as discussed below in this report.\nDue to the worldwide pandemic of Coronavirus COVID-19, the forum has strategised and established ways to move forward with some of the events that had been planned for the year. The report will outline events that have taken place or will be taking place soon.\nA. New YPF Exco, 2021-2023\n• Chairperson: Renee Petersen, SMEC\n• Vice-chairperson: Uzair Osman, Bosch Projects\n• Secretary: Dikeledi Maboa, Re-Solve Consulting\n• Vice secretary: Nurudeen Nieftagodien, SMEC\n• Additional members: Tevan Govender, Knight Piésold; Georgie Herbert, Zutari\n• Young Engineer of the Year 2021: Confidence Tshilande, Zutari\n• Official: Godfrey Ramalisa\nB. National Events\n1. Job Shadow Initiative – ‘A Day in the Life of a Consulting Engineer’\nThe annual CESA Job Shadow Initiative, could not take place for the second year running due to the restrictions put in place by the government to curb the spread of the corona virus. (Social distancing and limited number of individuals during gatherings).\n2. Young Professionals Sustainability Imbizo – Sustaining the FUTURE of Engineering\nThe YPF hosted a successful 9th edition of the CESA Young Professionals Sustainability Conference 2021 (YP Imbizo) as a virtual event over two days, 17-18 August 2021. Summary of events:\n "," Young Professionals Forum\n • 142 registrations, 91 participants\n• In attendance: 4 Contractors and 9 Government YPs\n• Keynote speakers: CESA Vice President Olu Soluade, Nwabisa Nontenja (an Economist and Associate Researcher\nat the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED).), and Dr Ngao Motsei founder\nof Leadership Emporium, a boutique Leadership Advisory and Consulting firm.\n• YP Imbizo 2021 was sponsored by Gold Sponsor: Aon South Africa and Silver Sponsors: SKI Civil and Structural\nEngineers and Med-Tech Engineers\n3. 67 Minutes of mentoring (online session)\n67 minutes of Engineering Mentorship for engineering and built environment students and graduates was held on Saturday, 12 June 2021, The CESA YPF in collaboration with the Gender Diversity Forum and other industry professionals hosted a “67 minutes of mentoring” online session. Sinenhlanhla Cordelia Msomi, from The Purpose Entrepreneur, facilitated the session, aimed at sharing knowledge and experiences by various individuals both in and outside of the industry.\nMany thanks to our distinguished keynote speakers for taking time out of their weekend to share their expertise, lessons learnt and advise with the future leaders:\n• Eng Sibongile Vilakazi, Head of Property Development, Eswatini Housing Board\n• Eng Tafadzwa Mukwena, Chief Technology Officer, BIGEN\n• Khethiwe Phakhathi, The Confidence Coach-Chancellor.\n• Eng Claire Bleazard, Senior Engineer – Digital Systems Integration, HATCH\n• Eng Yankho Banda, Transport Engineer at AMCE & CESA Young Professionals Forum Chairperson\nC. Regional events\nSome of our regional branches have slowly commenced with organising and executing online events and initiatives as follows:\n• Innovation & Entrepreneurship Webinar\n• Municipal Project Processes Webinar\n• Career development Webinar\n• Women’s Day Event\n• Quiz Nights Event\n• ECSA Professionals Registration Webinar\n• Stationery Drive\n• Environmental Project Processes Webinar\n• Presentations by Branch YPF Chairpersons during the various Presidential Webinars on ‘Skills development –\nGrowing our own timber’\n15\n "," Quality, Risk & Sustainability Management (QRSM) Committee\n David Leukes - BVi Group Wallace Mayne\nChairperson Manager: Contractual Affairs\n The Committee met regularly during the year, on 2 November 2020 and on 1 February, 1 May, 26 July, and 20 September 2021. David Leukes, a member of the CESA Board, continued as Chairman of the Committee and provided guidance and oversight of its activities and deliberations during the period under review.\nAs reported during the previous period, due to the Covid-19 Pandemic and the resulting national Lockdown regulations, committee meetings continued to be held virtually and have been well-attended with vibrant debate and discussion.\nDuring the year the Committee dealt with the following strategic projects:\n• The updating and re-organisation of the useful 90-plus CESA Practice Notes reflecting ‘best practice’ in the consulting engineering sector, was completed under the oversight of the Committee. As reported previously the Practice Notes were allocated to reviewers selected from the ranks of member firms and thereafter subjected to a further process of proofreading by knowledgeable volunteers from the Committee and member firms. The revised Practice Notes have been uploaded to the members’ section of the CESA website including a much- improved indexing and search facility, and four very successful webinars have been held to raise awareness\nof the revised practice notes. This has been a major exercise and the Committee takes pride in its successful completion.\n• The Committee continued with its oversight and direction of the implementation of the following mandatory CESA member management systems in the areas of Quality, Integrity (FIDIC), and Sustainability (Project) Management Systems, which are based on FIDIC Management System guidelines. A Management System Declaration (MSD) has been developed for each mandatory management system in order to assess the level\nof development of the management systems within member firms, which are required to complete these MSDs on an annual basis and submit the completed MSDs to CESA. CESA will evaluate the level of development of the management systems for the relevant member firm based on the completed MSDs, and will conduct verification reviews on randomly, selected member firms to confirm the contents of the completed MSDs.\nAs reported under the section dealing with the Annual Report of the Membership Committee, the MSDs were rolled out/launched together with the 2021 Annual Declarations. Unfortunately, completion of the three MSDs was poor during 2021 and, to address this, proof of membership certificates will be withheld unless subscriptions have been paid and the MSDs completed. CESA has been analysing the results from the ‘first round’ of completed MSDs and will update/improve the MSDs accordingly for distribution with the 2022 Annual Declarations. CESA will also develop training courses and webinars for members in this regard.\n• During the period under review, representatives of CESA Affiliate Aon continued to attend Committee meetings 16\n "," Quality, Risk & Sustainability Management (QRSM) Committee\nwhere they\nplayed a significant role in reporting on the strength of CESA PI Scheme, its premium income, claims, profitability, trends and implications for members. Their advice and support pertaining to risk and legal issues such as Client demands that members accept “unlimited liability”, never accepting “fit for purpose” clauses, and elaborating on PI problems facing the engineering sector, have been invaluable.\nIn order to improve its service offering Aon continued with the digitalisation of its claim statistics and the development of a ‘claims dashboard’ in consultation with CESA, to replace the longstanding ‘Aon Claims Triangle’.\nThe PI industry has continued to be disrupted by the Covid Pandemic, resulting in insurers insisting on joint- insurance with other PI insurers and a dramatic increase in insurance premiums.\n• The CESA Member Framework (CMF), which outlines the purpose, ambit, and operations of CESA and the requirements and benefits of membership, which was completed during 2020 under the direction of the Committee, was uploaded to the CESA website under the ‘Membership’ section. The Committee is proud of the CMF, which took considerable time and effort to develop, and fully believes that it will prove invaluable to new and prospective member firms.\n 17\n "," Membership and Constitutional Affairs Committee\n Jacques Kotze - Zutari Wallace Mayne\nChairperson Manager: Contractual Affairs\n 18\nThe membership application process continues to be largely undertaken by the Directorate (Chris Campbell, Chief Executive Officer, Wally Mayne, Contractual Affairs Manager, and Gillian Wands, Membership Administration Officer) and to be overseen by Jacques Kotze, member of the CESA Board.\nThe consulting engineering sector did not escape the effects of the economic downturn experienced by the country as well as the ill-effects of the Covid-19 Lockdown and whilst the total membership of CESA has gradually increased, the overall number of staff employed by the membership has shown a marked decline since the previous reporting period, as indicated below. In addition, due to the economic downturn experienced as a result of the Covid-19 lockdown, member firms were offered payment plans during 2020/21, however a number of firms were still unable to settle their subscriptions and were removed from the Member list. It is encouraging though, that a large majority of these firms have since been able to settle their arrears and re-instate their membership.\nDuring the period under review the Quality Risk and Sustainability Committee finalised its development over several years of the CESA Member Framework (CMF) which provides a useful and extensive explanation of inter alia the structure of CESA and the legal and regulatory framework under which it operates. The CMF has been uploaded to the CESA website under ‘Membership’ and is also made available to new member firms.\nThe CMF also addresses the mandatory CESA Management System for member firms, and associated Management System Declarations (MSDs), in the areas of Quality, Integrity and Sustainability. The MSDs are all based on the FIDIC systems developed for consulting engineering firms and were rolled out together with the 2021 Annual Declarations. Unfortunately, completion of the three MSDs was very poor during 2021 however, going forward, proof of membership certificates will be withheld unless subscriptions have been paid and the MSD completed. During the period under review, CESA has analysed the results from the ‘first round’ of completed MSDs and will update/improve the MSDs accordingly for distribution with the 2022 Annual Declarations. CESA will also develop training courses and webinars for members in this regard.\nAlthough National Treasury issued a circular that discouraged ‘membership of CESA’ as a tender prequalification criterion during the period, Public Sector Clients have continued to specify CESA membership as a prequalification criterion in their tendering process and to contact CESA to confirm membership. This has contributed to a steady flow of new membership applications despite Treasury’s Circular and has led to an increase in membership during the period under review from 602 member firms to 630 member firms while the number of staff employed by member firms has increased to 17 359 compared to 16 228 for the previous period.\nTo meet the requirements of potential clients and promote the services of member firms, CESA has expanded the number of engineering disciplines that are offered by member firms to provide clients with more options in selecting suitably qualified member firms. For example, the new list of disciplines now includes pipeline and dam\n "," Membership and Constitutional Affairs Committee\nengineering. Member firms will be requested to indicate in which, if any, of the newly included disciplines they have expertise and experience when the new list is disseminated together with the 2022 Annual Declaration.\nIt is pleasing to report again that during the period under review, members frequently took advantage of one of the primary benefits of CESA membership, to request CESA to take up matters with Clients anonymously on their behalf chiefly in procurement irregularities and issues, which CESA continued to do with a high success rate. Through regular postings in CESA’s monthly newsletter, CE-news, members were encouraged to use this opportunity as a benefit of membership.\nDuring the year the following changes, approved in 2019, to the criteria for CESA membership in recognition of the changing world of the business of consulting engineering, continued to be successfully implemented by the Directorate in evaluating membership applications.\n• 50% of the directors/principals must be registered with local Councils e.g., ECSA, SACAP.\n• 30% of the 50% of directors must be professionally registered with ECSA in any category i.e., engineer,\ntechnologist, technician.\n 19\n "," Marketing and Communications Committee\n Naomi Naidoo - Pink Africa Bonolo Nkgodi\nChairperson Manager: Marketing and Communications\n 20\nCommunication\nDuring the period under review CESA embarked on the second phase of our Protecting Lives and Livelihoods campaign. If you have been following us on social media as well as our other platforms you would have seen this campaign that is aimed at educating the general public on the impact that consulting engineers have on their daily lives. The campaign aimed at the public started in June and continued on radio and via social media during July and into August.\nOn 26 March 2021, we hosted the third instalment of the Protecting Lives and Livelihoods webinar series with the fourth instalment held on the 17 November. The series aims to highlight the importance of quality infrastructure for South Africa’s social and economic development and is focused on member forms and industry stakeholders.\nCESA was declared the winner in the Strategic Programme category at the 2021 FIDIC Member Association Excellence Awards for our ‘Protecting Lives and Livelihoods’ campaign. Held on 8 September, the MA Excellence Awards recognized individuals, teams, campaigns, initiatives, publications, and events, while also celebrating excellence in how FIDIC’s global member associations operate in a fast-changing and dynamic industry landscape serving members and other stakeholders.\nFIDIC currently has 102 Member Associations, which represent over one million engineering professionals and 40,000 firms globally.\nThe campaign elements included the following:\n• Website Campaign landing page - communication was developed to drive traffic to the CESA Website campaign landing\npage, where information was housed to further educate the reader\n• Industry Webinars – in partnership with a publishing house promoted via emailer, social media and SMS campaigns\n• Member Video Campaign on social media – showcasing how members are protecting lives with the projects they are\nundertaking\n• Thought Leadership articles - published in mainstream media as well as industry publications\n• Advertising campaign- utilizing digital media\n• Remarketing campaign - on social media targeting the general public\n• Radio Adverts – run on national radio stations with messaging appealing to, and easily understandable by, the general public\n• Animation series – on YouTube, website and social media\nAs at June 2021 the campaign has met with outstanding results:\n• Animation Series – 56 885 viewed and opened the video in just the first month with a total engagement of 2750\n• Radio campaign has reached over 4 267 000 listeners across the country\n• Over 700 registration and 320 attendees at the industry webinars\n• Advertising Value Equivalent of R14 million – a 42,5% year-on-year increase!\n "," Marketing and Communications Committee\n• Campaign Landing Page received 2000 visitors\n• CESA has had 386 000 web page views from 54 000 users – 35 200 from social media – with 85 400 website sessions\n• LinkedIn – 10 500 clicks on CESA profile\n• Twitter – 29 000 views\n• Facebook and Instagram – 7 500 clicks\n• A total of 6 400 followers gained across all platforms since beginning of campaign\n• Total impressions of 1,6 million since the start of the campaign\nDuring 2019/2020, CESA’s membership had been reduced from the previously reported 580 member firms down to 550 on the back of an ailing economy and subscription defaulters. Concurrently though as a result of the campaign, these number have dramatically increased to over 600 member companies by October 2021 – an incredible achievement!\nIn order to bring the campaign alive, it was integrated into all CESA activities including the CESA Aon Engineering Excellence Awards that acknowledged the contribution members make in saving lives through the process of planning, designing and delivering infrastructure projects.\nMedia Coverage\nAn independent Advertised Earned Value (AVE) report, that tracks every time the CESA brand is mentioned in the media, indicated that, for the period July 2020 to June 2021, CESA received the following media coverage off a total investment in advertising spend for the same period of just R381,371.04. We have also included a four-year comparison showing an increase in coverage year on year; 2017 to 2021.\nCESA 4 Year Comparison Print and Online AVE\n Print + Online Totals\n July 2017 to June 2018\n July 2018 to June 2019\n July 2019 to June 2020\n July 2020 to June 2021\n July\n R863 939.03\n R178 146,00\n R521 855,00\n R929 378\n August\n R675 381,22\n R440 209,00\n R1 145 830,00\n R790 395\n September\n R257 152,67\n R156 731,00\n R1 075 496,00\n R487 641\n October\n R806 462,00\n R557 260,00\n R649 556,00\n R1 016 447\n November\n R805 558,25\n R191 320,00\n R259 774,00\n R1 619 371\n December\n R35 643,10\n R33 189,00\n R386 498,00\n R1 095 370\n January\n R697 926,00\n R718 619,00\n R916 904,00\n R1 050 574\n February\n R699 402,68\n R1 157 982,00\n R743 346,00\n R2 632 388\n March\n R701 012,69\n R1 586 358,00\n R1 169 260,00\n R539 649\n April\n R762 481,00\n R405 733,00\n R1 581 926,00\n R2 907 867\n May\n R410 107,00\n R274 076,00\n R829 731,00\n R641 431\n June\n R796 265,00\n R624 707,00\n R1 690 879,00\n R1 928 391\n R7 511 331\n R6 324 330\n R10 971 055\n R15 638 902\n Social Media\nWe have seen growth in all social media platforms with LinkedIn being the CESA account with the highest number of followers. LinkedIn is also the platform with the highest engagement as our target audience has adopted this platform in favour of others. We are also pleased to report that our CESA platforms have a following that is greater than other benchmarked industry associations. The aim is to continuously increase the number of followers and engagement across all platforms.\n21\n "," Marketing and Communications Committee\n Below is a depiction of targets we had set for October 2020 and targets we would like to reach in October 2021.\nTargets:\nSep 2020 vs Sep 2021 Growth:\nEvents\nDuring 2021 CESA hosted only one in-person event, the CESA Presidential Golf Challenge and a series of virtual events, the most significant of these was the CESA Aon Engineering Excellence Awards Virtual Event which was hosted on a virtual platform and proved to be very successful based on the overwhelming positive feedback received from the attendees:\nCESA Presidential Media Address & Debate Webinar – 3 February 2020\nThe Presidential Media address and debates webinar was held virtually on the 3rd of February 2021 where the President of CESA, Sugen Pillay, presented his presidential message and theme for the year. Pillay’s 2021 theme was ‘2021 – Rebuilding with Purpose’.\n Platform\n Oct 2021 Target\n Oct 2021 Actual\n Facebook\n 16,332\n 12,265\n LinkedIn\n 21,081\n 17,253\n Twitter\n 8,332\n 7,094\n Instagram\n 960\n 920\n Platform\n Sep 2020\n Sep 2021\n Growth\n % Growth\n Facebook\n 10,528\n 12,937\n 2,409\n 23%\n LinkedIn\n 13,757\n17,038\n 3,281\n 24%\n Twitter\n 5,392\n 7,000\n 1,608\n 30%\n Instagram\n 621\n 912\n 291\n 47%\n 22\n "," Marketing and Communications Committee\nCESA Infras\ntructure Indaba – 28 to 29 September 2021\nThe CESA Infrastructure Indaba was held on the 28th of September, under the theme “Engineering the future now”. Held for the first time as a virtual event, the online platform boasted networking opportunities and discussions which were highly engaging in the midst of South Africa’s turbulent construction landscape. Presentations throughout the first day focused on two key themes of infrastructure investment and development, and public sector procurement in the construction sector. The line-up featured high calibre speakers from across the construction value chain including engineers, property developers, economists, and finance institutions, which fostered diversity in opinions and rich discussions.\nDay 2 of the CESA Annual Infrastructure Indaba kicked off with discussions centering largely on transformation and development. Professionalisation of the state and the private sector was another key topic on day 2. CESA President, Sugen Pillay, concluded the event by presenting resolutions which were developed over the course of the indaba. He encouraged engineers to actively contribute to the rebuild programme, driven by purpose. He stated that when we execute infrastructure projects with purpose, we stand to optimise the positive impacts such as a reduction in poverty, inequality and unemployment. He said that CESA will also continue advocating for quality cost-based selection and value for money. He concluded by stating that as part of our wider transformation journey, we must consider how we can embrace technology, inform our clients of new solutions, and leverage what is available to improve on our efficiency.\nCESA Presidential Golf Challenge – 13 October 2021\nThe 2021 CESA Presidential Golf Challenge was held at the Randpark Golf Club in Randburg and was a huge success. CESA would like to thank all member companies that participated in helping to achieve a successful Golf Challenge. CESA is grateful for the support from members, clients and suppliers to the industry!\n2021 CESA Aon Engineering Excellence Awards Virtual Event – 10 November 2021\nIn an annual celebration of innovation, quality, outstanding workmanship and professionalism in the engineering industry, CESA and the engineering community enjoyed the prestigious CESA Aon Engineering Excellence Awards which took place virtually. The CESA Aon Engineering Excellence Awards provide a platform to showcase the important role that infrastructure plays in the sustainable development and delivery of basic services to society.\nAffiliates\nDuring the year under review CESA actively engaged with our organisation’s Affiliates in order to maximize relationships with existing Affiliates and encourage 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):\n• Aon\n• Silversoft\n• Isowall Group\n 23\n "," Supply Chain Management Committee\n Darrin Green - Aecom\nChairperson\nThe Committee met regularly during the year and meetings were held on 5 November 2020, 11 February, 6 May, 22 July, and 23 September 2021. Darrin Green, a member of the CESA Board continued as Chairman of the Committee and provided guidance and oversight of its activities and deliberations during the period under review.\nAs reported during the previous period, due to the Covid-19 Pandemic and the resulting national Lockdown regulations, all committee meetings continued to be held virtually and have been well-attended with vibrant debate and discussion.\nWallace Mayne\nManager: Contractual Affairs\n 24\nDuring the year, the Committee dealt with the following strategic projects and developments within the sector:\n• The procurement irregularities that were brought to CESA’s attention by member firms were regularly discussed by the Committee and recommendations made to the Contractual Affairs Manager regarding excessively priced bid documentation, the misapplication of the PP Regulations (2017) and very poorly drafted RFPs, which were then addressed with Treasury and the affected state entity. It is pleasing to note that National Treasury issued a circular banning the practice of charging excessive prices for tender documentation. The circular also discouraged the specification of ‘membership of CESA’ as a tender prequalification criterion during the period. Fortunately, however, Public Sector Clients have continued to specify CESA membership as a prequalification criterion in their tendering process, which has contributed to a steady flow of new membership applications despite the circular.\n• Under the oversight of the Committee, extensive comment on the draft National Infrastructure Plan (NIP 2050) was gathered from members and submitted to DPWI. It is envisaged that a revised draft of the NIP 2050 will be issued for further comment in 2022.\n• During the period under review, ECSA gazetted its 2021 ECSA Guideline Fees & Scope of Services, which included extensive recommendations from CESA made under the public comment process. CESA has written to ECSA pointing out the errors and omissions in the 2021 Guideline, which have been noted by ECSA and will be addressed in the 2022 ECSA Guideline. In this regard, the Directorate continued to reply to fee queries that it received direct from members, clients, and the public, basing its responses on the gazetted ECSA 2021 Fee Guideline as well as the DPSA Fee Guideline for Consultants. Under the auspices of the Committee a comprehensive practice note (PN45) was developed to guide member firms in applying the ECSA 2021\nFee Guideline.\n• Committee members assisted in presenting on various topics according to their expertise, in the series of webinars held to promote awareness amongst member firms and interested parties, of the newly revised CESA practice notes, and widely contributed to the actual revision of the 90-plus practice notes under the auspices of the QRSM Committee.\n• The FIDIC, JBCC, GCC and CESA suites of contract documents, which fall under the auspices of the Committee, continued to be sold by the Directorate, with the FIDIC suite achieving record sales. For the convenience of member firms and others and to raise the awareness of CESA contracts, the CESA suite of contract documents/ forms of agreement continued to be advertised and sold by the ‘Contracts on Demand’ and ‘Fresh Projects’ websites. The revision of the main CESA Form of Agreement was completed, printed, and uploaded to the CESA and abovementioned websites. The revision of the other CESA contract documents, namely the ‘Subconsultancy, Short Form, Concise and JV’ Forms of Agreement, continued and will be finalised early\nin 2022.\n "," Business of Consulting Engineering\n(BCE) Development Programme\n Supply Chain Management Committee\n‘BCE - Developed by the Industry – For the Industry’\nJoin us for a life-changing experience, that will fast track your career, in the world of Consulting Engineering\nWhether you are looking to progress to a more senior level or grow your own business, the BCE Development Programme will give you the practical skills, applied theory and confidence to boost your consulting engineering career.\n 100% ONLINE\nBCE starts in March 2022\n2022 Applications Now Open!\nEarly Bird Discount\n- Book before 15 December 2021\nLEARN FROM THE BEST, OUR 15 SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS ARE HIGHLY EXPERIENCED LOCAL INDUSTRY PRACTITIONERS\nProject Delivery\n Rise to the Top of Your Profession!\nThe programme focuses on developing non-technical skills, from project inception to project completion, essential for a career in consulting engineering, but not part of normal tertiary engineering education.\nBCE Development Programme Includes:\nOne afternoon online class a week, consisting of two or three lectures Over 50 topics presented by 15 Subject Matter Experts\nAccess and use of the CESA.net student portal (library, presentations, assignments) Individual student facilitator support\nTraining material, including the ‘Role of the Consulting Engineer during Project Delivery’ The assessment and moderation of assignments, individual feedback, and online exams\n15 ECSA CPD credits, claimable on your company’s SETA WSP/ATR submission and Construction Charter B-BBEE Scorecard\nFor more information: Brenda Lacey-Smith, Manager: Education and Training, CESA School of Consulting Engineering on 011 463 2022/ 084 9000 195 or brenda@cesa.co.za\n25\nLegal and Contractual Matters\nInter- Personal Skills\nConsulting Enguneering Environment\nBusiness and Project Finance\n "," Transformation and Development Committee\n Refilwe Lesufi - Prana Consulting Godfrey Ramalisa\nChairperson Manager: Stakeholder Liaison\n 26\nThe Transformation and Development Committee (TDC) had to reconstitute due to lack of participation by senior members. The two forums, the Gender Diversity Forum (GDF) and the Technology & Engineering Innovation Forum (TEIF), were integrated into this committee as project-specific task teams. The Committee would like to thank the outgoing chairpersons of the GDF and TEIF, Jeshika Ramchund from Bosch Projects and Neelam Parbhoo from Knight Piésold, for their sterling work.\nEngagement and initiatives\nThe Committee continued to engage members and other relevant stakeholders on various transformation and development topics.\n• The Committee collaborated with SALGA on the “Conversations on technology and innovation” in the water and sanitation sector. The parties are pursuing a MoU to formalise and widen collaboration.\n• The CESA Innovation and Technology Webinar was hosted on 4 March 2021. The discussions were focused on the theme “Accelerating innovation in the engineering and built environment sector”.\nSubtopics:\n1. Innovation strategies — adopting and adapting technology in executing projects and the design process\n2. Aon South Africa’s Digital Transformation Journey to manage risk; engineering a better world; and research\nas a driver for technological innovation\n3. The upcoming webinar will focus on the technological tools for new and emerging consulting engineering\nfirms\n• At the CESA Infrastructure Indaba the Committee hosted a session on transformation and development. The\nfollowing topics were discussed by members and the BEE Commission:\no Gender and inclusion\no Transformation in progress\no Economic empowerment\no Technology aiding consulting engineering business o Application and innovation — engineering services\nMonitoring of employment equity and BEE progress\nThe Transformation and Development Committee’s objective is to promote and monitor transformation within the consulting engineering industry and to facilitate better understanding of national constitutional imperatives. This concerns Section 217 with respect to the PPPFA implementation as well as monitoring and reporting on\n "," Transformation and Development Committee\ncompromise to Section 217 of the national constitution where transformation is being misused to excuse lack of fairness, transparency, competitiveness and cost-effectiveness of procurement-processes.\nHerewith CESA’s member firms’ transformation journey:\n 500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100\n50 0\n434\nCESA Firms - Black Ownership (2020: 594 vs 2021: 617)\n 397\n 197\n183\n 2020 - Count\nBlack Owned\n2021 - Count\n<51% Black Owned\n 600 500 400 300 200 100\n0\n519\n518\n2021 - Count Black Women Owned >=30%\nCESA Firms - Black Women Ownership (2020: 594 vs 2021: 617)\n 75\n2020 - Count\nBlack Women Owned < 30%\n99\n 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10%\n0%\n42% 43%\nBlack\n76% 79% 58% 57%\nWhite Male 2020 2021\n24% 21%\nFemale\nCESA Member Firm’s – Top Mng, Senior Mng, Professionals\n(2020: 8233 vs 2021:7935)\n 27\n "," Partnering with CESA for over 30 years to offer insurance broking expertise, insight and tried and tested insurance broking solutions.\nAon is a proud sponsor to the CESA Aon Engineering Excellence Awards\nHOUSEHOLD & MOTOR | BUSINESS | HEALTH | RETIREMENT | REINSURANCE 0860 100 404 | www.aon.co.za\nAon South Africa (Pty) Ltd, an Authorised Financial Services Provider, FSP # 20555 | Aon Re Africa (Pty) Ltd, an Authorised Financial Services Provider, FSP # 20658 Aon Limpopo (Pty) Ltd, an Authorised Finncial Services Provider, FSP # 12339\n "," CESA\nBranches\n BRANCH\n CHAIRPERSON\n Eastern Cape - Border/Kei\n Vacant\n Eastern Cape - PE\n Mr Gustin Esau Email:gustine@easpe.co.za\n Free State\n Mr JL (Jan-Louis) Reynders Email:janr@bvifs.co.za\n Gauteng\n Mr Gift Mphefu Email:giftm@med-techengineers.com\n KwaZulu Natal\n Mr R W Rudi Von Fintel Email:rudi.vonfintel@rhdhv.com\n Limpopo\n Mr Livhu Motabatsindi Email:livhum@muteo.co.za\n Mpumalanga\n Mr Chalmers Pagiwa Email:chalmers@lubisi.co.za\n North West\n Mr August Dandashe Email:dandashe@lotshephe.co.za\n Northern Cape\n Mr Schalk van der Merwe Email:schalk.vandermerwe@worleyparsons.com\n Southern Cape\n Mr Charles Rowe Email:info@crconsulting.co.za\n Western Cape\n Mr P (Paul) Faria Email:paul@hho.co.za\n "];