Project Management Specialist
LCCC (PTY) Ltd
Total years of experience :37 years, 0 Months
Detailed Tasks Assigned: Project Engineer responsible for the site administration and overseeing of site works for on-going site civil engineering works. Duties included:
•Assessment and approval of setting-out details
•Approval of daily construction programmes from the site agent
•Overseeing planned plant and personnel deployment
•Engineering Quality Control
•Overseeing Material Testing
•Suggesting project design changes to improve quality and cost where necessary
•Presenting Site Progress Reports and responding to queries
•Overseeing the monthly Interim Payment Certificate (IPC)
•Overall administration of the contract
For Details please see Annexure
Project Management
Adherence to time, cost and quality
Tendering
Top management meetings and decisions.
Mohale’s Hoek Town Centre
Client: Ministry of Local Government and Chieftainship Affairs
Main Project Features: Mohale’s Hoek also developed over the years from a simple colonial camp into a sizable and important district town. Its poorly planned and unengineered road infrastructure called for an intervention. The GOL then decided to carry out the following upgrading works:
The road upgrading works were designed to be of gravel layers sealed with a bitumen cover and improved road drainage works. The Contract called for setting up of the camp for both the Contractor and the supervising Engineer, setting up of the road line and profile, earthworks, weaning and borrowing construction material, layer-works construction and compaction, crushing of stone for selected layer-works and chipping aggregates and surface sealing with bitumen concrete.
Thaba Tseka Town Centre
Client: Ministry of Local Government and Chieftainship Affairs
Main Project Features: Thaba Tseka Town is an important link between Maseru the capital of Lesotho in the lowlands of the country and all the centrally located areas around the district of Mokhotlong and its surrounds. The town centre therefore developed from a small administrative camp built by colonialist during the 20th century. With time its road network expanded, albeit unplanned and unengineered. Therefore, a proper engineered road became mandatory
The road upgrading works were designed to be of gravel layers sealed with a bitumen cover and improved road drainage works. The Contract called for setting up of the camp for both the Contractor and the supervising Engineer, setting up of the road line and profile, earthworks, weaning and borrowing construction material, layer-works construction and compaction, crushing of stone for selected layer-works and chipping aggregates and surface sealing with bitumen concrete.
Leribe & Botha Bothe
Client: Ministry of Local Government and Chieftainship Affairs
Main Project Features: The two District Centres were also started off as colonial administrative camps and with time became sprawling urban centres. However, as with many other urban sprawlings in the third world, the road infrastructure was poorly planned and needed upgrading. THE GOL then decided to upgrade the road networks as follows:
The road upgrading works were designed to be of gravel layers sealed with a bitumen cover and improved road drainage works. The Contract called for setting up of the camp for both the Contractor and the supervising Engineer, setting up of the road line and profile, earthworks, weaning and borrowing construction material, layer-works construction and compaction, crushing of stone for selected layer-works and chipping aggregates and surface sealing with bitumen concrete.
& Chieftainship Affairs
Main Project Features: The TY urban area is sprawling district headquarters on top of hilly terrain. The town started off from humble beginnings as a district administrative camp during the colonial days. With time it grew into a bigger setting requiring proper and planned road infrastructure. Maintenance effort for the gravel road network within the town centre became prohibitive for the District Council of TY under the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftainship Affairs. The GOL then decided to upgrade to bitumen standard some strategic routes within the town centre.
The road upgrading works were designed to be of gravel layers sealed with a bitumen cover and improved road drainage works. The Contract called for setting up of the camp for both the Contractor and the supervising Engineer, setting up of the road line and profile, earthworks, weaning and borrowing construction material, layer-works construction and compaction, crushing of stone for selected layer-works and chipping aggregates and surface sealing with bitumen concrete.
and Chieftainship Affairs
Main Project Features: Moyeni, Quthing is the district headquarters of the Quthing District. It is an important administrative centre for the Government of Lesotho which was also poorly designed and built during the colonial days. The upgrading of its road infrastructure comprised:
The road upgrading works were designed to be of gravel layers sealed with a bitumen cover and improved road drainage works. The Contract called for setting up of the camp for both the Contractor and the supervising Engineer, setting up of the road line and profile, earthworks, weaning and borrowing construction material, layer-works construction and compaction, crushing of stone for selected layer-works and chipping aggregates and surface sealing with bitumen concrete.
Detailed Tasks Assigned Responsible for project management of Tikoe (Thetsane) Industrial Water Reticulation project. Duties included
•Overall administration of the project
•Quality control of the construction of a 10 mega-liter RCC Water tank
•Assessment of Interim Payment Certificates (IPC) from the Contractor
•Analysis of proposed variation rates
•Project budget control
•Ensuring compliance with of FIDIC 4th Conditions of Contract & COLTO Specifications - Contract Documents
Detailed Tasks Assigned Worked for about a year with Vista Um as their
Detailed Tasks Assigned: Started off as a Graduate Structural Engineer with Structural Engineering Research Centre. Duties performed were:
•Checking of the structural design for adequacy of reinforcing
•Checking the steel reinforcement bending schedule
•Checking the quality of cement used and its compliance to specifications
•Checking the results of cube crushing for compliance with specified strength of concrete within specified time period
•Checking shuttering compliance.
The author was then attached to the design office where he was exposed to a lot of computer software like ETABS, which was then extensively used in India, and perhaps worldwide, for structural design analysis.
From around 1995 to about 2004 the author took various private non- engineering works
12. Annexure:
Work Undertaken that Best Illustrates Capability to Handle the Tasks Assigned:
Name of Assignment: Upgrading to Bitumen Standard of Selected TY Urban Roads
IMT is a renowned privately owned institute in North India situated in Ghaziabad-Uttar Pradesh a state of India which falls in NCR-Delhi.
Presented a paper to Indian Geotechnical Society and given prize.
