Construction
Construction is the largest cluster in Group Five. It includes the business segments of Building and Housing, Civil Engineering and Engineering Projects and operates through five business units, being Building, Civil Engineering, Coastal, Housing and Projects.
 Building and Housing
Building
- Education and healthcare facilities
- Public buildings and infrastructure
- Large commercial and residential complexes
- Retail shopping centres
- Industrial premises
Housing
- Large-scale residential and building contracts for the mining and industrial sectors
- Corporate and private/public sector housing developments
- Low-cost and affordable housing schemes
Group Five Motlekar Pty Ltd is a joint venture with Motlekar Holdings with the intention of providing affordable housing in Southern Africa. The business has a decorated track record of providing low-cost houses to thousands of South African families.
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Recent key contracts
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King Shaka
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Construction of international airport |
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International Airport |
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Nedbank Phase 2 |
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Construction of bank office building |
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Gauteng |
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Moses Mabhida |
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Construction of a 70 000 seater stadium |
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KwaZulu-Natal |
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Stadium |
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including athletic track, sports field, basement |
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parking and external works |
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University of |
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The upgrade of existing campus buildings |
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Gauteng |
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Johannesburg |
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including two new generic buildings and |
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sporting facilities |
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Brandvlei Prison |
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Demolition of existing prison and construction |
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Western Cape |
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of 1 000 inmate prison |
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 Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering undertakes a broad range of heavy civil, infrastructure, roads and earthworks contracts for both public and private clients.
Key services include:
- Bulk water supply, distribution and storage
- Mining civils
- Milling plants, material handling, silos and storage
- Power stations and industrial structures
- Port and marine facilities and airports
- Roads, bridges and interchanges
- Dams, canals, pipelines and rail contracts
- Water and wastewater treatment
- Petrochemical, oil and gas civils
- Precast concrete structures
- Pre-stressing and specialised engineering, including incremental launching
- Commercial survey services
The business has an established local and international footprint and is recognised as one of the leading South African firms in marine construction and water treatment structures. We have a large, competent and multi-skilled workforce that allows flexibility in the selection of contracts and an ability to easily adjust to the changing needs of the markets.
Recent key contracts
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NMPP Pipeline |
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New multi-product pipeline designed to convey various petroleum products |
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Durban to Gauteng, South Africa |
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Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project |
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Gauteng road upgrades including lane
additions and improvements to interchanges |
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Gauteng, South Africa |
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Durban Harbour entrance widening |
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Durban harbour widening by 100m and deepening to 19m in the entrance channel.
Removal and replacement and extension
of existing breakwaters and deepening
of harbour entrance to a depth of 19m |
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KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
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Koeberg Interchange |
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Expansion of the Koeberg Interchange
between the M5 and the N1 in Cape Town |
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Western Cape, South Africa |
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King Shaka International Airport |
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Construction of international airport |
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KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
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Kusile Power Station
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Civil structures, including specialist Air-Cooled Condenser (ACC) columns for new thermal power station for Eskom |
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Mpumalanga, South Africa
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Spring Grove Dam |
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Roller-compacted concrete dam |
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KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
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Kibali Gold Mine |
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Bulk earthworks, civils structures, and Tailings Dam for new gold mine at Kibali in north-east DRC |
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Northern DRC
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Civil Survey
The Group Five Survey Department is unique in that it not only supports Group Five Civil Engineering's Survey requirements but is able to provide survey services to a wide range of external clients.
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Engineering Projects
Structural, mechanical, electrical instrumentation, and piping (SMEIP) contractor
- Total plant builders, with specialist skills, including:
- Co-ordination and management of site wide services, logistics and construction.
- Supply and installation of structural steelwork and plate work for mining, industrial and power plants.
- Installation and commissioning of heavy mechanical and electrical equipment, such as mills, crushers, furnaces, refrigeration plant, transformers, generators, vessels, towers etc.
- Rigging studies and heavy lifts.
- Fabrication, supply and installation of high and low pressure piping systems for the mining, power, industrial and petrochemical industries
- Electrical Instrumentation and control installations
- High and Low voltage reticulation (overhead and underground), including substations
Key contracts
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Kinsevere Copper Project |
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Services, piping, structural, mechanical, electrical and instrumentation contract |
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Ayanfuri Gold Project |
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Development of an opencut mining operation, process plant and related infrastructure to the mine |
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Ghana |
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NMPP Terminals and Pumpstations |
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Mechanical, electrical and tank installation for facilitating and pumpstation supporting multi-product pipeline treatment |
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Durban and Johannesburg, South Africa |
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