WSP involved in two projects recognised in SAPOA 2019 Awards

WSP in Africa, one of the largest multi-disciplinary engineering
consulting firms on the continent, proudly acknowledge the contributions of the
firm’s engineers to two winning projects in the Industrial Development and
Overall Transformation categories of the 2019 SAPOA Property Development Awards
for Innovative Excellence, as announced in June.

The winning projects included:

Industrial Development: Cummins
Southern Africa

Cummins is a global company that designs, manufactures, services and
distributes diesel and alternative fuel engines and power generation products
as well as related components and technology. Cummins sells in approximately
190 countries and territories through a network of more than 6000 company-owned
and independent distributors and approximately 6000 dealers.

Located along the N1 highway in Waterfall City, in Midrand, the
efficient building design for the Cummins regional head office has been
furnished with several innovative energy saving technologies – including a
custom designed cool HVAC system.

Engineers from WSP provided mechanical (HVAC) and fire engineering
design and consulting services on this project.

The teams from WSP included:

• HVAC: Pieter de Bod, Imran Bloch, Roelie
  Oelofse, Carin Morgans, Craig Blankers, Yusuf Suder and Mohamed Saleh
• Fire: Andre Steyn, Nabeel Mohamed, Tieho
  Mokoena, Julia Gusinow and Alexander Eliasov

Overall Transformation: Cape Town
International Convention Centres (CTICC) 2

The CTICC 2 hosted several [event first] showcase events before
officially opening in January 2018. Located opposite and due east of the
original convention centre (CTICC), construction of the R900-million expansion
commenced in 2014 and has been a collaborative project by the CTICC and its
shareholders – the City of Cape Town, Western Cape Government and SunWest
International.

CTICC 2 adds an additional 31,148 m² to the entire complex,
including 10 000 m² of conference and exhibition space, a further 3
000 m² of formal and informal meeting space.

Additionally, new facility centre boasts an environmentally sustainable
design, high-tech venue control systems, high-calibre IT infrastructure, free
public Wi-Fi, three production kitchens to cater for every type of event, and a
service tunnel under Heerengracht avenue connecting CTICC 2 with CTICC 1.

Further developments have also guaranteed that the CTICC 2 has been
fully integrated with the original centre to ensure seamless event operations –
and thereby strengthening the overall convention centre’s positioning as a
world-class venue and the city’s reputation as a global business events
destination.

Engineers from WSP provided mechanical (HVAC), electrical, wet services,
fire and ICT engineering design and consulting services on this project.

The teams from WSP included:

• HVAC: Dick Morkel, Theo Reyneke, Nasief
  Smart, Musa Solomon
• Electrical: Alan Keen, Mott McDonald
  (sub-consultant), Lianie Heynes
• Electronics: Mark Behrmann
• Wet Services: Grant Duncan, Nelson Mhlanga
• Fire:  Ryan Visser, Craig Chitter,
  Steven Morrow
• Vertical Transport: Konrad Ferreira

More information at www.wsp.com