NEWS
Lower Ruvu Project - Tanzania
Upgrading of Lower Ruvu Water Treatment Plant from 180Ml per day to 270Ml per day
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Message from our chairman
Thank you to all clients and staff who have supported and continue to support UWP in 2010. We can only grow higher!
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We must walk together and work together
In the years ahead UWP will not only continue to walk together with our clients and government, but it will be imperative to work together (and very hard) to grow the economy and create more jobs.
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UWP looks forward
UWP has put intense focus on strategy for the past 18 months, aimed at keeping abreast of changing conditions and offering better and more relevant service to our clients in Africa and South Africa.
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Sustainable engineering solutions
Developments undertaken without considering the long term impact on the environment are increasingly pressurising social and ecological systems. Apart from carbon
footprint and climate change, poverty, socio-economic inequality and threats to many ecological systems show that current development norms do not enhance the quality of life.
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A down to earth vision for African expansion
An abundance of arable land, heat and (in some regions) water gives Africa the potential to contribute meaningfully to world food security, whilst its wealth of mineral resources is key to world economic growth. Preventing our continent from fulfilling its potential, however, is a lack of infrastructure. Closing this gap presents both an enormous challenge and a great opportunity for the continent's construction industry, and is one of the main thrusts of UWP's African expansion strategy.
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Niche services and alliances
The key to greater mining sector involvement
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ICU contract documentation
Contract documentation has been overhauled to comply with the requirements of both the FIDIC and NEC3 construction contract formats.
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UWP Cape Town recognised by Airports Company
The Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) has named UWP the best Maintenance and Engineering Consultant at Cape Town International Airport in 2009.
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Zululand wins National Water Competition
It was a proud day for UWP's Gerrard Delvaux, chairman of the SAICE Zululand branch, when "his" team won the SAICE Centenary Schools Water Competition.
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Get in, get out and stay out
Congratulations to UWP's Dr Anna-Carin Brink who received a commendation for her paper presented at the International Society for Concrete Pavements (ISCP) Conference in San Francisco last August.
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Khula Africa merges with UWP
The small Durban-based civil and structural consulting engineering firm of Khula Africa Engineers has merged with UWP Consulting.
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Zulch takes on his greatest challenge yet
Zulch Lötter, managing director of UWP Consulting, was inaugurated as president of Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) for a two year term on 8 October 2009.
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Gareth focuses on a sound future
Gareth Coleman hit the ground running when he joined UWP Consulting as commercial director in early 2009.
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Craig Northwood - UWP's Managing Director Elect
Craig moved to our head office in Johannesburg in January 2010, where he will become familiar with the corporate aspects of the business prior to taking over as managing director from Zulch Lötter during 2011.
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Planning for our future
I am tremendously proud of UWP's teams across Southern Africa for their competent and
professional management of tough workloads and tight deadlines.
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Message from the Chairman
In the midst of the global economic melt-down occasioned by the shenanigans of some international market players, coupled with a massive shedding of jobs by the economy and a declining tax revenue collection base, we remain nonetheless optimistic that tomorrow will be better than today.
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Young Engineer of the Year: Lucas-Jan Ebels
Prestigious award for young UWP engineer.
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Important Milestone for the Construction Industry
On Friday 5 June the Construction Sector Charter was gazetted as a Sector Code on black economic empowerment.
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Top Academic Awards for UWP's new doctors of engineering
When two young engineers with UWP Consulting, Lucas-Jan Ebels and Cobus van Dyk, were awarded their PhD degrees from the University of Stellenbosch recently, both were also named the top students in their fields of study.
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Two awards for UWP Consulting in Eastern Cape
The East London branch of UWP Consulting has received two awards for excellence.
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Navigating the Economic Crisis
There has been much written about the global economic crisis. As published in the In Touch Newsletter, 2009.
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Expanding our Road Pavement Design Expertise
The ever increasing number of road rehabilitation projects in South Africa has prompted UWP to increase its team of road pavement design specialists.
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UWP Consulting Facilitates Infra-Structure Development within the Mining & Municipal Sectors
The Producers Forum is a voluntary mining-based organisation established to implement infrastructure and community
development projects in partnership with Government.
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