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ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF LIFE

Company Profile

UWP Consulting | Company Profile

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To this end we will:

• Growthecompanyinasustainablemanner.

• Engagewithourclientsandallcompanystakeholderstoremainrelevanttotheirneedsandaspirations.

• Manageourbusinesswithintegrityandincompliancewiththerequirementsofthecountrieswithin

whichweoperate.

• Investinthedevelopmentofouremployeesandthecommunitiesweserve.

• Bemindfulofthesensitivityofthenaturalenvironment.

• Provideappropriateengineeringsolutions.

Quality and innovation are the drivers of our company. We rigorously monitor, evaluate and continually

improve our performance and effectiveness in order to enhance the quality of life of the people we serve.

Enhancing the Quality of Life

At UWP we strive to be recognised as a leading provider of sustainable and value adding engineering solutions

in Sub-Saharan Africa to “Enhance the Quality of Life” of the people we serve.

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01 Introduction

02 An Empowered South African Company

02 South African Owned

02 Professional Affiliations

03 Management & Divisions

04 Financials

05 Offices

06 Staff Profile

07 A Responsible Corporate Citizen

09 Capabilities > Transportation

10 Capabilities > Water Services

11 Capabilities > StructuresManagement

12 Capabilities > Management Services

13 Capabilities > Infrastructure Planning

14 Niche & Sector Specific Services

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Introduction

UWP Consulting (Pty) Ltd is a majority black-owned, multi-disciplinary, South African consulting engineering practice, which has been active throughout Southern Africa since 1972. Currently the company has a total staff complement of about 250 employees in 10 offices across South Africa and four in southern Africa.

UWP Consulting is proud of its reputation as a highly motivated, dynamic and innovative firm with a passion for quality and for putting its clients’ needs at the centre of the engineering solutions it offers.

The UWP board manages a strategy that guides the actions of staff and management and provides a flexible decision-making framework.

Targets are defined and progress regularly monitored in five integrated strategic focus areas:

• AligningUWP for sustainable growth; • Investinginourpeople; • Deepeningtransformation; • PositioningUWP; • Deliveringvaluetocompanystakeholders.

UWP has been ISO 9001 Quality Management System certified since 2007. The company has an active environmental management system and is working towards EMS 14001 accreditation.

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UWP Consulting is registered with the following professional organisations:

• TheEngineeringCouncilofSouthAfrica(ECSA); • ConsultingEngineersSouthAfrica(CESA); • TheSouthAfricanRoadFederation(SARF); • TheInstituteofMunicipalEngineeringofSouthernAfrica(IMESA); • TheWaterInstituteofSouthernAfrica(WISA); • GreenBuildingCouncilSouthAfrica.

Professional Aff iliations

UWP has an active transformation strategy resting on four integrated pillars:

• Transformingthedemographicsofthecompanyfromownershipthroughmanagementtoallstaff; • Instillingaprogressivecompanyculture; • Actingasaleaderincorporatecitizenshipbypromotingandsupportingprogrammesandprojectsthat

enhance the quality of life of poorer communities; • An active and effective preferential procurement policy that includes selecting and supporting black

empowered enterprises as partners and service providers;

UWP has made significant strides in all these spheres and is currently a Level 2ContributorintermsoftheDTIGenericScorecard andattracts125%BBBEErecognition.

An Empowered South African Company

The company is fully owned by employee shareholders active in the running of the business. This includes individuals whoownsharesintheirownright(75%ofshareownership)andtheUWPBlackEmployee’sTrust(UBET)whoownjustover 25% of the business. The beneficiaries of the trust are all black employees in the company and represents UWP’s commitment to empowering our staff.

The company is currently 51% black owned.

South African Owned

51%Black shareholdingLevel 2 DTIGenericCodes

BEEContributionlevel

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The board of directors is responsible for the overall management

of the company with the CEO (Nonkululeko Sindane), assisted by

an executive committee (exco) and management team, managing

day-to-day issues.

Management & Divisions

Northern Region Vuyo Booi [email protected]

Eastern Cape Wayne Ketteringham [email protected]

Western Cape Adrian Skea [email protected]

KwaZulu-Natal Zwe Msomi [email protected]

CEO Nonkululeko Sindane [email protected]

Water Christo Dudenski [email protected]

Transportation Lucas-Jan Ebels [email protected]

Structures Vic Wilson-Taylor [email protected]

Management Services Rod Stewart [email protected]

Infrastructure Planning Sandra Munnik [email protected]

International Offices Gareth Coleman [email protected]

Finance Director Lyle Davies [email protected]

A management committee includes senior management of UWP across all regions and divisions.

Kwazulu-Natal

Zwe Msomi

FinancialLyle Davies

Quality, EMS Management & Branding

Claudia Picarra

Benefits & RemunerationNicole Levin

Staff WelfareBashniHarry

DIVISIONSRoads &

TransportationLucas Ebels

Water & Sanitation

Christo Dudenski

StructuresVic Wilson-

Taylor

Infrastructure Planning

& SustainabilitySandra Munnik

Management ServicesRod Stewart

Northern Regions VuyoBooi

Eastern CapeWayne

Ketteringham

Western CapeAdrian Skea

InternationalGareth

Coleman

BloemfonteinPolokwaneJohannesburg Pretoria

PietermaritzburgRichards Bay

East LondonMthatha Cradock

Cape Town

ZambiaTanzaniaBotswanaZimbabwe

Executive Committee

CEO Nonkululeko Sindane

COOGarethColeman

COO Gareth [email protected]

OPERATIONS

REGIONAL MANAGERS

OFFICES

BOARD OF DIRECTORS


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Financials

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Professional Fees 2013 763 268 109 852987 34 677 170 33 589 675 48 015 456 4 020 410

Professional Fees 2014 3 753 873 123 875 818 34 884 570 33 169 173 54 670 896 5 774 690

Professional Fees 2015 6 041 989 90 817 323 26 756 766 25 280 706 78 568 712 4 292 557

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activeinafrica

In addition to South Africa, UWP Consulting has offices in Tanzania, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe andhas delivered projects in these countries as well as Burkina Faso, DemocraticRepublic of Congo, Ghana, Lesotho,Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Uganda.

UWP has completed assignments funded by the European Commission, WorldBank,AfricanDevelopmentBank,Millenium Challenge Corporation and the DevelopmentBankofSouthernAfrica.

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UWP Consulting has a policy of recruiting and retaining the best people and offers bursaries and financial assistance for postgraduate training. Through a well-managed process of regular staff assessments, combined with client project performance feedback, we strive to ensure that a high level of service is maintained.

UWP’s staff development strategy includes induction training, mentoring, coaching, bursary support for undergraduate and post-graduate qualifications, attendance at workshops and conferences, on-the-job training, in-house workshops and continued professional development(CPD).

UWP encourages and supports its engineering graduates to achieve professional registration through its formal “Blueprint”mentoringprogrammelaunchedin2008.

Taking their cue from CESA’s Young Professionals Forum(YPF)forprofessionalsundertheageof35inthebuilt environment sector, UWP’s young professionals established a YPF within the company in 2014. The aim is to create a platform where the young professionals at UWP can network, share issues of common interest and help one another and the company to grow and prosper.

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UWP believes the long term sustainability of its business and the environment in general can only be achieved by playing a direct role in the empowerment of communities and small enterprises. Responsible corporate citizenship is central to our ethos of “enhancing the quality of life” of the communities we serve.

The company contributes up to 10% of its profit after tax to empowerment each year. This falls into three broad areas:

• Socio-economicdevelopment;

• Enterprisedevelopment;

• Bursaryprogramme.

socio-economicdevelopment

The company promotes employee involvement and volunteerism in its socio-economic development support programmes.Branchofficesidentifyprojectstopositivelyimpactbeneficiarycommunities.

Enterprisedevelopmentpartners

Enterprise development support takes many forms at UWP. In the daily work of providing engineering solutions the company regularly partners with smaller companies. In addition to public sector initiatives, many projects include a capacity building element for small contractors or businesses.

The company actively engages in joint commercial ventures with small wholly black owned businesses.

Bursaryprogramme

Recognising the need to develop its own staff but also a broader pool of technical skills, UWP has an active bursary and grant programme providing financial support to external applicants, children of employees and to engineers in training.

A Responsible Corporate Citizen

R528,245 Spent on uplifting communities through socio-economic development in 2015


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Capabilities

Asanko Gold - Ghana


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UWP offers integrated transportation services throughout the infrastructure life cycle from concept and design to operation and maintenance.

We employ highly qualified professionals and place strong emphasis on delivering quality engineering solutions incorporating the latest global technologies.

Building on the experience of providing sustainable transportation infrastructure across sub-Saharan Africa for more than 40 years, our multi-disciplinary transportation service offering includes:

• Transportationplanning; • Trafficengineering; • Roadsandhighways; • Urbaninfrastructure(includingpublictransport); • Airports; • Constructionprojectmanagement; • Miningrelatedinfrastructure.

Transportation

Umgeni/ Inanda Road Interchange Upgrade on N2 - Durban


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UWP Consulting offers comprehensive water engineering services from planning to construction management for the abstraction, conveyance, storage and drainage of raw, potable, treated and waste water. This includes: • Waterresourceplanningandstudies; • Situationassessmentsandcatchmentstudies; • Reconnaissance,pre-feasibility,andfeasibilitystudiesforwaterresourcedevelopments; • Bankablefeasibilitystudiesfornewminingandindustrialdevelopments; • Managementandco-ordinationofmultidisciplinaryplanningstudies; • Infrastructureplanning,designandconstruction; • Dams,weirsandriverabstractionworks; • Bulkrawandtreatedwaterpumpstationsandreservoirs; • Bulkconveyancesystemsincludingcanalsandlargeborepipelines; • Irrigationsystems; • Solidwastedisposal; • Waterconservation,demandmanagement,leakdetectionandleakcontrol; • Watersourcedevelopmentandbulksupplysystemsforminingand

industrial developments; • Developmentandsupporttowaterservicesauthorities; • Institutionalstructuresforoperationandmaintenance; • Operate,maintain,trainandtransferprojects. UWP has substantial experience in large multidisciplinary water and wastewater treatment projects, including process, civil, mechanical and structural design of new treatment works, upgrading and refurbishment of existing works, process optimisation and review.

Water

Shemula Water Treatment Works - KZN


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UWP’s expertise spans a wide variety of structural forms and material types. We offer analytical and design services for civil, commercial, industrial, institutional, health and residential structures.

The individual team members have experience in projects including high rise buildings, bridges, industrial buildings, shopping centres, hospitals, schools, cold storage facilities, distribution warehouses, civil engineering structures, mining structures and water-retaining structures among others.

Specific areas of expertise include:

• Prestressedandreinforcedconcretedesignforcivilengineeringandbuildingstructures; • Structuralsteeldesignforcivilengineeringandbuildingstructures; • Facadeandcurtainwallingdesignanddetailing; • Highrisebuildings; • Advancedfiniteelementdesignandapplicationinbridgeandbuildingdesign; • BIM(buildinginformationmodelling); • Greenbuildingsandsustainableengineeringdesign; • Assessmentandrehabilitationofbuildingsandcivilengineeringstructures; • Dynamicanalysisandseismicdesign; • Bridgemanagementsystems; • Fasttrackprojectmanagement.

Structures

Thaba Nchu (Free State)


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Management Services

ProjectManagement• Providing expert advice from project inception to closure;

• Setting clear objectives and a defined scope;

• Supplying crucial resources where and when required;

• Using a structured process for managing risk;

• The tight control of budgets;

• Management of communications and supply chain relationships;

• Performance measurement through key performance indicators.

ProgrammeManagement• Support to public and private sectors in managing multi-year infrastructure;

• Development, economic or social programmes;

• Programme design;

• Programme administration;

• Stakeholder management;

• Grandfundmanagementsupport;

• Financial administration;

• Training and capacity building;

• Procurement support;

• Contract administration.


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UWP formulates strategic level multi-stakeholder plans for the development and lifecycle management of infrastructure. This takes cognisance of institutional, legislative, social and environmental imperatives in parallel with project constraints such as time and budget.

Services include:

• Strategicplanning,programmedevelopmentandmanagementconsultingservices;

• Specialisedassistancewithfeasibilitystudiesandbasicservicesdelivery;

• UseofGIS(geographicinformationsystems)andothersoftwareplatforms;

• Planningforintegrateddevelopment(IDPs)waterservicesdevelopment(WSDPs),land

use and zoning, institutions, forestry and transportation;

• Infrastructuremappingandinfrastructuremanagementsystems;

• Legalandstatutoryissues;

• Informationcommunicationtechnology;

• Trainingandcapacitybuildingforclients,emergingconsultantsandlearnercontractors;

• Socialliaisonandfacilitation;

• Financial,budgetandprogrammemanagement.

UWP also offers socio-economic consulting services including local, regional and sectoral economic development strategies, economic spatial frameworks and economic and social infrastructure audits.

Infrastructure Planning

Asanko Gold - Ghana


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IntegratedConstructionUnit(iCU)system

UWP’s iCU system is a construction risk management methodology suited to dynamic project environments that need rapid responses to changes in the pace, nature, scope and sequence of the works. Important features of the iCU system are:

Niche & Sector Specif ic Services

• Contractualflexibility;

• Managementofconstructionresources

by UWP to align with contract

requirements;

• Constructioncostsavingsupto30%;

• Reducedleadtimesforfasttrack

projects;

• Reduceddisputesduetocollaborative

and team oriented approach;

• SuitableforFIDICandNEC3contract

platforms;

• IncludesISO9001accreditedquality

assurance procedures.

agriculture

UWP’s experience in the design and supervision of agricultural infrastructure projects extends over more than 25 years. Our clients include government departments and the private sector companies. UWP has successfully concluded several major private sector development projects in southern Africa incorporating the following:

• Dams;

• Canals;

• Pumpstations;

• Largediameterpipelines;

• Irrigationsystems;

• Landclearingandpreparation;

• Dairies;

• Piggeries;

• BroilerFarms;

Asanko Gold - Ghana

Nakambala Sugar Expansion Plantation - Zambia


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InformationandCommunicationsTechnology • Wayleavesandpermitting;

• Contractstrategyanddocumentation;

• Procurementofcontractors

and suppliers;

• Riskassessmentandmanagement;

• Establishmentofproject

management office;

• Sitesupervisionandcommissioning;

• Siteclose-outandhandover.

The following transmission planning services are provided by member firms:

• Transmissionand

infrastructure planning;

• Procurementoftransmission

equipment service provider;

• Planningandinstallationof

active equipment;

• Operationandmaintenanceofoptical

fibre network;

• Networkoperationscentre(NOC).

(ICT)

Niche & Sector Specif ic Services

MiningInfrastructure

UWP has worked closely with numerous project houses in the mining sector, successfully undertaking design and construction management assignments in South Africa, SADC countries and beyond.

We have also completed a wide variety of projects directly for mining houses. These include capital optimisation studies, restructuring of open pit mining contracts, as well as the design and construction management of mining and civil infrastructure. Our knowledge of the challenges of implementing projects in Africa enables us to provide valuable input into due diligence studies, bankable feasibility studies and project planning.

Mining infrastructure services offered by UWP Consulting include:

• Design and construction management of bulk and mining

infrastructure

• Waterresourceplanningandlicensing,togetherwithwater

balance analyses.

• Storage,conveyanceandtreatmentofrawwater.

• Effluenttreatmentanddisposal

• Accessandhaulroads(surfacedandgravel)includingbridges

and drainage structures.

• Heavydutyandspecialpurpose

pavements for use by off-highway

mining vehicles and equipment

• Runwaysandairfields

• Miningstructures:structuralsteel,

reinforced concrete, composite

structures, buildings.

• Tailingsdisposalandreturnwater

infrastructure.

• Hydrologicalstudiesincludingflood-

line determination, storm water

management and river diversions.

• Civilservicesforprocessplants,

mining areas and residential areas.

• Formulationofprojectspecifications

and conditions of contract for both

underground and open pit mining

operations

• Contractadministrationincorporating

resource management, financial

management and contract dispute

resolution.

FibreCo Telecommunications Project

UWP has established a comprehensive work group for the effective implementation of telecommunications construction projects. Memberfirmsspecialiseintelecommunicationnetwork(transmissiontechnologyandfibre)design,engineeringanddeploymentservicesas well as the provision of network operations centre services. This is combined with UWP’s expertise in project management, construction contracts, contract procurement and civil engineering services.

The following services are offered for ICT infrastructure:

• Routesurveyandbasicplanning;

• Geotechnicalinvestigations;

• Detaildesignsandconstructiondrawings;


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Rehabilitation of National Route 9 - Colesburg


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Company Profile - UWP · Gareth Coleman [email protected] Finance Director Lyle Davies [email protected] ... UWP consulting Company Profile 5 active in africa In addition to South Africa,