Email: info@swmcommunications.co.za

CESA

12 Aug

12 August 2022. Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana will headline the upcoming annual Infrastructure Indaba hosted by Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) on the 18th-19th August 2022 at the Indaba Hotel in Fourways. The Minister is scheduled to be the keynote speaker on the first day of the event and will discuss issues including procurement and infrastructure development amongst others. Sharing the news, CESA President Olu Soluade stated. “We are looking forward to having the minister at the event which is an important feature in the CESA calendar. We are optimistic that his presence will give us the opportunity to...

24 Jun

24 June 2022. The 10th CESA Young Professionals Sustainability Imbizo (YP Imbizo) is set to take place at the Accolades Boutique Venue in Midrand on the 28th and 29th of June this year. This will be the first non-virtual event to be hosted by the CESA YPF since 2019, owing to the lockdown due to COVID-19. The YP Imbizo provides a unique and dynamic platform for young professionals in the built environment in both the public and private sectors to discuss pertinent issues relating to all aspects of delivery and maintenance of infrastructure and engineering projects....

21 Jun

21 June 2022 Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA), representing close to 600 member firms employing approximately 17 000 people, is celebrating 70 years of engineering excellence in 2022. CESA’s Platinum Jubilee celebrates the organisation’s remarkable and enduring history of contributing to the representation and development of the all-important engineering sector within South Africa, and they have much to celebrate....

23 May

23 May 2022 Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) is challenging the recent decision by the SANRAL Board to cancel critical infrastructure tenders on the basis that their adjudication process was flawed due to the involvement of design engineers in the tender adjudication process....

08 Apr

8 April 2022 Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) welcomes the Engineering Council of South Africa’s (ECSA) decision to refine its processes for validating CPD Category 1: Developmental Activities (courses, conferences, webinars etc.) for CPD point allocation. This has been necessitated by the many unscrupulous training providers in the industry who have been falsely advertising CPD validated training courses and conferences that often do not match their CPD points allocation. ...

14 Mar

14 March 2022 Commenting on the announcement of the Gauteng provincial budget, the CEO of Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA), Chris Campbell, said he welcomed the budget’s focus on critical infrastructure spend, but called on the Gauteng Government to pay urgent attention to addressing issues within the tender processes. Otherwise, many important projects would not be delivered on time and to specification, he warned. ...

23 Feb

24 February 2022 On the back to the 2022 Budget just released, Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) is pleased to hear that Government is looking at value for money and quality of delivery as the top priority in the development of the project pipeline. This is particularly important to ensure the sustainable development of infrastructure....

15 Feb

15 February 2022. It is not an everyday occurrence where graduates return and share their testimonies on how a particular programme contributed towards growth in their careers. This was the case during the School of Consulting Engineers (SCE) Information Session hosted on Tuesday, 8 February. The SCE was founded by Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) and aims to provide the opportunity for Consulting Engineers, their staff, their clients and other interested parties in the Built Environment to enhance their business, professional and entrepreneurial skills....

03 Feb

3 February 2022. “We have the ability to rewrite the gloomy narrative which has dominated our lives in recent years – the pandemic and its challenges. We can overcome, we can recover. But we have a lot of work to do – as an industry we need to ask ourselves, where do we even begin?” This was the question posed by Olu Soluade, newly appointed president of Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA), at the Presidential Media Address hosted this morning in Sandton, Johannesburg....

29 Nov

29 November 2021. Consulting Engineers South Africa’s (CESA) 68th Annual General Meeting held on Wednesday, 24th November saw Olu Soluade, CEO of AOS Consulting Engineers inaugurated as President of the organisation for the next two years, succeeding Sugen Pillay. David Leukes from BVi Group has been elected as Deputy President of the organisation....