Contract Management and Quantity Surveying Services
What gets measured, gets managed.
–Peter Drucker–
Esaba’s experienced team of contract managers and quantity surveyors provides exceptional contract management and project costing services to clients in the public and private sectors. Esaba’s costing solutions cover all aspects of the client’s project finances. From initial cost advice during feasibility and pre-contract stage, budget estimation during project initiation stage, cost planning and control during the design stage, bill of quantities with reliable cost estimates and cash flow forecasts during contract documentation stage, cost management and reporting during the construction stage and final account statements during completion and post-contract stage.
Esaba’s comprehensive tender and contract documentation are fully compliant with current legal and regulatory requirements and include tender conditions and data, returnable schedules, contract data and agreements, pricing data, project specifications and drawings. Esaba’s contract management services include contractual advice, tender and contract evaluation, technical review of returnable schedules received from prospective contractors, contract reporting, assistance with contractor negotiations and selection, support with the signing of contract agreements and appointment letters. Esaba’s adds value throughout the project life cycle by keeping the client informed of their financial and contractual commitments with associated risks to ensure flawless implementation and completion of multi-disciplinary construction projects.
Esaba’s service excellence in contract management and quantity surveying deliver time-efficient, cost-effective and high-quality projects to clients in the public and private sectors. Esaba’s integrated contract management and quantity surveying services include:
- Feasibility costing, budget planning and cost estimation;
- Tender, contractual and procurement advice (CIDB, GCC, JBCC, FIDIC, NEC);
- Collaborative design coordination meetings for multi-disciplinary projects;
- Cost effective and value for money project designs (cost planning and control);
- Preparation of tender and contract documentation (tender conditions and data, returnable schedules, contract data, forms, pricing data, project specifications and drawings);
- Evaluation of tender and contract documents (returnable schedules, technical and pricing reviews, interviews, verifications and audits);
- Tender and contract evaluation reports;
- Client assistance with contractor negotiations, selection, signing of contract agreements and appointment letters;
- Compulsory contractor documentation (guarantees, regulatory forms, OHS files, quality documentation, project program and cash flow);
- Construction cost monitoring and reporting;
- Construction administration and quality control;
- Formal construction meetings and documentation;
- On-site valuation and audits of construction works and materials (re-measurements, MOS, direct supplies, off-site materials):
- Interim monthly payment certification and financial statements;
- Variation orders and contract administration;
- Management of construction delays and other contractual claims;
- Control of additional works and costs as determined by the contract;
- Final accounts and statements in alignment with the contract;
- Project certificates in accordance with the contract conditions;
- As-Built drawings and close-out reports.
Featured Contract Management and Quantity Surveying Projects
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Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It’s coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering as well as final assembly.
-James Dyson-
Esaba’s team of experienced professional engineers is committed to providing innovative, versatile, cost-effective and sustainable electrical and mechanical engineering solutions to its clients in the private and public sectors. Esaba’s practical project solutions ensure maximum system efficiency, safety, optimum output, ease of operations and maintenance. Esaba provides a comprehensive ‘one-stop’ professional service to the client that includes planning, design, costing, procurement, management, quality assurance, continuous consultation regarding strategic development and support during all phases of the energy project. Esaba’s effective services approach provides operations, maintenance, replacement and upgrades solutions for the client.
Esaba’s integrated electrical and mechanical engineering services include:
- Building developments and energy saving systems;
- Renewable energy solutions (i.e. solar and wind power plants);
- Green building and alternative energy solutions (i.e. heat pump, cold storage and energy recovery);
- Civil infrastructure and telemetry systems (i.e. pumps stations, reservoirs and water treatment works);
- Hydropower;
- Transmission and distribution networks for both macro and micro developments;
- Sub-stations;
- Network master planning for national and municipal systems;
- Telecommunication;
- Building developments (i.e. HVAC networks, escalators and lifts);
- Pump station construction supervision, installation and commissioning;
- Fire specialist services;
- Optimisation of industrial operations.
Featured Electrical and Mechanical Engineering Projects
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Municipal Services and Human Settlements
What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems… there’s no law of physics preventing them.
-Michio Kaku-
Esaba’s team of experienced professional engineers is committed to providing innovative, versatile, cost-effective and sustainable municipal services and human settlement engineering solutions to its clients in the public sector. Esaba‘s long-standing working relationship with various institutions in the public sector have fostered extensive experience and knowledge of political, socio-economic and environmental factors that may impact township development projects in urban and rural communities. The knowledge base allows Esaba to make informed planning and design decisions that provide useful short term and sustainable long term project solutions for the client. Esaba’s integrated municipal services and human settlement engineering services include:
- Regional assessments and development of ground and surface water sources;
- Planning, design and construction of raw water extraction and borehole complexes;
- Plan, design and construction of modular water purification plants;
- Planning, design and development of bulk water pump stations and distribution networks;
- Planning, design and construction of bulk water reservoirs, at-grade and elevated storage tanks;
- Planning, design and construction of water reticulation networks, booster pump stations and yard connections;
- Plan, design and development of bulk wastewater (sewage) distribution networks and pump stations;
- Planning, design and construction of wastewater (sewage) treatment plants and outfall infrastructure;
- Plan, design and development of paved and unpaved municipal roads;
- Planning, design and construction of paved and unpaved municipal road maintenance, resurfacing and rehabilitation;
- Master planning and management of municipal pavement systems;
- Plan, design and development of stormwater channels, culverts, weirs, ponds and drainage infrastructure;
- Planning, design and construction of raw water extraction and irrigation systems;
- Plan, design and development of bulk earthworks, parks and sports fields;
- Raw water extraction
- Planning, design and construction of low-cost housing as part of the RDP scheme to relocate informal settlements;
- Planning, design and construction of sanitation units and internal sewage reticulation networks as part of the bucket eradication programme.
Featured Municipal Services and Human Settlement Projects
Those who plan do better than those who do not plan even though they rarely stick to their plan.
-Winston Churchill –
Esaba’s team of experienced professional project and engineering managers provide management services for small and large multi-disciplinary projects to clients in the private and public sectors. Esaba’s extensive management expertise and knowledge ensure that projects are completed successfully and delivered to the client on time and within budget. Esaba integrates its internal management procedures, control and reporting systems with internationally recognised project management systems such as PMBOK and Sciforma when managing projects as the agent of the client. Esaba’s integrated project management services include:
- Integrated project scheduling, risk and resource management;
- Construction and contract management;
- Planning and design coordination;
- Coordination between the client, consultants and other project stakeholders;
- Health and safety monitoring;
- Implementation and management of contract documents (i.e. FIDIC, NEC, GCC or JBCC);
- Project risk management;
- Quality assurance and audits;
- Preparation of bid documentation and participation in the evaluation processes;
- Preparation of agreements, guarantees and certificates;
- Project execution plans, submissions and approvals;
- Project cost management and cash flow reports;
- Project close-out procedures and reports.
Featured Project Management Projects
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Roads and Transport Engineering
The life work of the engineer consists in the systematic application of natural forces and the systematic development of natural resources in the service of man.
-Harry Walter Tyler-
Esaba’s team of experienced professional engineers is committed to providing innovative, versatile, cost-effective and sustainable roads and transportation engineering solutions to its clients in the public and private sectors. Professional services offered by Esaba include studies, strategic planning, pavement management, construction and maintenance for a wide range of new and existing road networks. Project solutions are tailored to client specific needs and environmental requirements. Esaba’s integrated roads and transport engineering services include:
- Transportation planning (feasibility studies, traffic impact assessments, modelling, access planning, land use and network planning);
- Geometric and pavement designs;
- Drainage and stormwater designs (hydrology modelling, master planning, designs, channels, culverts, inlet- and outlet-structures, ponds, erosion protection, risk management and auxiliary infrastructure);
- Road resurfacing and rehabilitation (assessments, pavement management systems, financial planning, slurries, stone seals, asphalt and gravel designs, rehabilitation planning and designs, environmental management and cycle programming);
- Road maintenance (assessments, pavement management systems, financial planning, audits, corrective- preventative- reactive-maintenance planning, environmental management and routine programming);
- Pavement Management System (condition assessments, data management, mapping, GIS, network programming, budget and financial planning, rehabilitation and maintenance planning).
Featured Roads and Transport Engineering Projects
There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people’s progress.
-Franklin D Roosevelt-
Esaba’s team of experienced professional engineers is committed to providing innovative, versatile, cost-effective and sustainable structural engineering solutions to its clients in the public and private sectors. Esaba provides technically sound and economically viable solutions for eco-friendly development of structures in the built environment. Esaba’s integrated structural engineering services include:
- Finite element modelling for concrete, steel and timber designs;
- Industrial warehouses (breweries, factories, commercial and logistics);
- Commercial structures (multi-storey offices, training centres, accommodation, retail and residential developments);
- Transportation structures (bridges, culverts, concrete chambers and weighbridges);
- Water structures (reservoirs, concrete chambers, pump stations, weirs and wastewater infrastructure);
- Structural investigations and inspections (multi-storey buildings, halls, schools, industrial steel buildings, bridges and reservoirs);
- Temporary works, lateral support and foundations (residential, commercial and industrial foundations in challenging geotechnical soil conditions);
- Mining infrastructure (stackers, conveyors and hoppers).
Featured Structural Engineering Projects
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Bulk water and Sanitation Engineering
Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilisation of natural resources to produce wealth.
-Theodore Jesse Hoover-
Esaba’s team of experienced professional engineers is committed to providing innovative, versatile, cost-effective and sustainable water and sanitation engineering solutions to its clients in the public and private sectors. Esaba established its expertise and extensive knowledge in bulk water and sewage infrastructure projects through its long-standing association with nationally recognised advisors, associations and educational institutions. Esaba serves government departments, municipalities, water utilities, the mining sector and private developers to achieve overall optimum water and sewage network solutions and business objectives. Esaba provides technically sound and economically viable solutions for the development and utilisation of natural water sources, as well as effective treatment and disposal of wastewater.
With the frequent water shortages in Southern Africa, it is vital to invest in both innovative technologies and optimal maintenance for new and existing bulk water and sanitation networks to enable the delivery of cost-effective and sustainable services to urban and rural communities. Esaba’s integrated water and sanitation engineering services include:
- Regional water resource planning and management (hydrology, hydro-geology, modelling, balancing, design and re-use);
- Surface- and ground-water abstraction and treatment plants;
- Water and sewage bulk distribution networks (large diameter pipelines, canals and auxiliary infrastructure);
- Bulk services infrastructure (pump stations, reservoirs, tanks, chambers and outfalls);
- Water and sewage reticulation networks (small diameter pipelines, yard connections and auxiliary infrastructure);
- Water utility management (assets, finances, compliance, maintenance and water losses and audits);
- Sewage intake and treatment works (oxidation ponds, activated sludge plants);
- Specialised water hammer and surge analysis (assessments, modelling, designs and calibrations);
- Bulk irrigation systems (raw water abstraction, storage and distribution);
- Water conservation and demand management (master planning, pollution management, asset management, network optimisation, water losses and maintenance management, GIS, education, revenue management and audits);
- Extensions and renovations of bulk services infrastructure (assessments, diagnostic modelling, network optimisation, designs, integrated operations and maintenance management);
- Stormwater management (master planning, modelling, designs, weirs, canals, ponds and auxiliary infrastructure);
- Environmental and flood plain management (feasibilities, mapping, risk and disaster management, modelling, rehabilitation and conservation).
Featured Water and Sanitation Engineering Projects
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We shape our Buildings, thereafter they shape Us.
-Winston Churchill-
Esaba provides integrated architectural and project management services to deliver innovative, versatile, collaborative and sustainable development solutions to clients in the built environment. Esaba’s architectural team creates quality solutions in a creative manner, aimed at fulfilling the client’s needs and specifications to make their vision a reality. Esaba currently operates several software packages, including AutoCAD Revit and Archicad to develop 3D designs and layouts. The 3D rendered models provide clients with a holistic image of the end product, which enables the client to verify and perfect their visions before the commencement of any construction works in a way never imagined before. Esaba’s integrated architectural services include:
- Feasibility studies
- 3D presentation and marketing documents;
- Landscaping;
- Conceptual and detailed design reports and drawings;
- Management and coordination of multi-disciplinary projects;
- Technical, procurement and contract documentation;
- Contract administration and inspections of building projects;
- Post contract administration.
Featured Architectural Projects
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The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
-Lady Bird Johnson-
Esaba’s environmental specialists have a wealth of experience in planning, coordination, management and execution of a wide range of environmental projects. Esaba provides efficient, compliant and transparent solutions of the highest quality that meet any environmental challenges. Esaba’s professional services are delivered in line with the latest national, provincial and local legislative frameworks and requirements. Esaba’s integrated environmental services include:
- Environmental impact assessments (EIA) (public participation, acquisitions and permitting);
- Socio-economic impact assessments;
- Geotechnical and geo-hydrological assessments;
- Ecological assessments (management plans, Fauna- and Flora-assessments);
- Heritage and archaeological impact studies;
- Visual impact studies;
- Water use licences;
- Specialised assessments for Record of Decision (ROD);
- Independent environmental control officer (ECO) services;
- Environmental management systems (environmental management plans, programmes and audits);
- Environmental risk assessments
- Rehabilitation and restoration plans
Featured Environmental Management Projects
The most important thing is to keep the most important thing the most important thing.
-Donald P Coduto-
A sound understanding of prevailing geological site conditions is an essential component during feasibility studies and preliminary designs of any civil or structural engineering project. Knowledge of local soil characteristics and structural behaviour is vital for the optimisation of foundations, especially in adverse soil conditions.
Esaba’s geotechnical engineers collaborate with specialists in the field of ground engineering to provide its clients extensive experience and expertise while delivering comprehensive geotechnical solutions. Esaba’s integrated geotechnical engineering services include:
- Field investigations using geological and geophysical techniques;
- Excavation assessments and soil profiling;
- Laboratory testing and interpretation of soil materials;
- Slope analysis, anchor systems and lateral support designs;
- Deep foundations and piling designs;
- Dolomitic stability and classification investigations.
Featured Geotechnical Projects
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GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
-Jack Dangermond-
Esaba’s geographic information system (gis) specialists develop specialised digital databases that operate with local spatial coordinate systems to capture, analyse and present field data obtained from the project area. Esaba provides the latest development and mapping technology to assist clients in public and private sectors with facilities management of complex and integrated infrastructure networks. Esaba’s integrated geographic information system services include:
- Data collation from existing documents, aerial photos, surveys or other sources provided by the client;
- Data capturing, storage, processing and analysis with computer software;
- Intelligent modelling with technical and statistical data links for customised 3D presentations;
- Generation of graphic displays and 3D models for maps, reports and plans;
- Data integration with AutoCAD for graphically enhanced drawings;
- Data conversion between geodetic and local coordinate systems;
- Development and maintenance of GIS databases;
- Updating existing databases with new electronic data for integrated infrastructure networks.
Featured GIS Services Projects
To Measure is to Know.
-Lord Kelvin-
Esaba’s experienced team of land and engineering surveyors provides topographic and as-built surveying services to clients in the public and private sectors. Esaba utilises cutting edge equipment with GPS satellite surveying, robotic- and conventional-total stations for surveying of sites, setting out, volume determination and design purposes. Esaba’s integrated land surveying services include:
- Topographical surveys (infrastructure and network planning);
- Development surveys (land use, permitting and management);
- Digital terrain modelling (3D presentations, designs and AutoCAD drawings).
Featured Surveying Projects
Municipal Management Support
Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We’ve got to open new doors, not slam them shut.
-Frank Lautenberg-
Esaba’s experienced team of professional engineers and project managers provides innovative and versatile solutions for strategic evaluations, planning, funding, project implementation and expenditure requirements various municipalities and government departments.
Esaba‘s working relationship with various institutions in the public sector has fostered extensive experience and knowledge of infrastructure networks, programmes, services needs and demands for multiple communities in urban and rural areas. The knowledge base allows Esaba to make informed planning and design decisions that provide short term and sustainable long term solutions as may be required by the client.
Esaba makes use of the latest digital design software in order to simulate and design community growth, demands, utilisation and development patterns, densification and development nodes, network master planning, local and regional integration of networks, network balancing and management, infrastructure planning and development, as well as feasibility and optimisation analysis of existing infrastructure networks. Esaba’s integrated municipal management and support services include:
- Planning, implementation and administration of provincial programmes (water optimisation, bucket eradication etc.);
- Implementation and management of infrastructure management systems (MIS, WDMS, PMS, IQMS etc.);
- Network master planning;
- Procurement risk, PMU enterprise and MIG expenditure support;
- Municipal infrastructure planning and management turn-around strategies;
- Verification, compilation and management of asset registers;
- Planning, implementation and administration of labour intensive programmes;
- Planning, implementation and administration of socio-economic development programmes.
Featured Municipal Management Support Projects
Occupational Health and Safety
Safety is no Accident.
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Esaba’s experienced team of health and safety officers manages all aspects of design and construction health and safety on behalf of clients in the private and public sectors. Esaba provides administrative, monitoring and management solutions to the health and safety challenges and risks that are inherent to project designs and construction activities. Esaba’s integrated health and safety services include:
- Development of site-specific health and safety policies, procedures and plans;
- Review and audits of health and safety files received from contractors;
- Assessments of OHS organograms and appointments;
- Evaluation of induction programs and systems;
- Audit emergency evacuation procedures and plans;
- Baseline risk assessments, control procedures and methodologies;
- Assessments, categorising, monitoring and management of fire hazards;
- Compliance audits of procedures, plans and registers required at construction sites;
- Site visits and on-site training;
- Establish health and safety committees;
- Assessments and reporting of accidents and incidents on site;
- Audits of permits and project certificates;
- Scheduled inspections and reporting of equipment, tools, plant, facilities, site and working environment;
- Scheduled safety meeting.
Featured Occupational Health and Safety Projects
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