Academic Qualifications:

Pr Eng
B Eng (Civil), University of Stellenbosch

Membership of professional societies:

ECSA: Registered as Professional Engineer at the Engineering Council of South Africa
SAICE: Member of The South African Institution of Civil Engineers
IMESA: Member of the Institute of Municipal Engineering of South Africa

Wouter has more than thirty years’ experience in the fields of civil, municipal services, railway engineering and roads. He has been the Managing Director of an engineering consultancy since 1989.

Wouter has extensive experience in the planning, implementation and management of development projects, both as consultant and as a private developer in his own right. He has been involved with projects ranging from residential developments to commercial developments and office parks.

Wouter specialises in urban development project risk analysis and project financial viability modelling.

Read an interview with Wouter Engelbrecht about his career journey and unique leadership traits.

Academic Qualifications:

Pr Eng
B Eng (Civil), University of Stellenbosch

Membership of professional societies:

ECSA: Registered as Professional Engineer at the Engineering Council of South Africa
SAICE: Member of The South African Institution of Civil Engineers
IMESA: Member of the Institute of Municipal Engineering of South Africa

Michael has more than thirty years’ experience in the fields of project procurement, planning, design, contract and construction documentation, overall project supervision and project management. He has extensive experience in the area of  urban engineering infrastructure and bulk civil engineering infrastructure projects. His expertise also stretches to sport and recreation facilities (natural and artificial turf) design and construction.

Michael also specialises in urban development project risk analysis and project financial viability modelling.

Michael is also the proud developer of NWE’s own intelligent project feasibility program.

Academic Qualifications:

Professional Accountant (SA)
Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting, University of Stellenbosch
B Acc, University of Stellenbosch

Membership of professional societies:

SAIPA: Full Member of The South African Institute of Professional Accountants

Jan is a professionally registered accountant and tax practitioner. After starting out in an auditing environment he went on to gain experience in financial management in various sectors.

He has gained most of his over ten years’ experience in the property development and consulting engineering environment. This includes the financial management of business in other African countries such as Zambia, Malawi and Ivory Coast.

Academic Qualifications:

Pr Eng
B Eng (Mechanical), University of Stellenbosch

Membership of professional societies:

ECSA: Registered as Professional Engineer at the Engineering Council of South Africa
SAIMechE: Member of The South African Institution of Mechanical Engineering

Academic Qualifications:

Pr Eng
MBA, University of Oxford
MScEng (Civil – Structural), University of Stellenbosch
Membership of professional societies:

ECSA: Registered as Professional Engineer at the Engineering Council of South Africa

Werner has more than twenty years of electrical building services experience both in South Africa and the United Kingdom where he further studied and specialised as a Green Building Energy Performance Assessor. He has extensive electrical design and project management experience on large scale electrical engineering projects including medical facilities, laboratories, drama theatre, luxury residential high rise developments up to 50 storeys, shopping malls, restaurants, hotels, fitness clubs and office blocks. As part of his international experience he worked both as a contractor and consultant on projects with electrical values up to R450m.

Academic Qualifications:

B Eng (Civil), University of Pretoria

Membership of professional societies:

ECSA: Registered as Professional Engineer at the Engineering Council of South Africa

During Dawid’s almost fourty years’ career he gained twelve years’ extensive experience in dam engineering and did the planning and design of the first roller concrete gravity arch dam in South Africa reaching the full dam height in the shortest construction period at that time. Since Dawid joined the firm he teamed up with a specialist consultant with more than thirty seven years extensive experience in dam engineering worldwide to mentor him and bring him up to date with the latest technologies of dam engineering.

In the consulting civil engineering industry he gained extensive experience in reports, tendering and contract documentation, project and quality management and construction administration and management. Dawid also prepared numerous successful feasibility studies and launched the First Presidential Resettlement Program in the Northern Cape and managed the project with five consulting engineers to install the municipal services. Dawid also gained extensive experience in pump lines – and pump stations designs, documentation, etc.

Academic Qualifications:

Pr Tech Eng
B Tech (Civil), Free State Technicon
Pr CPM
CPM Programme, University of Pretoria

Membership of professional societies:

ECSA: Registered as Professional Engineering Technologist at the Engineering Council of South Africa
SACPCMP: Registered as Professional Construction Project Manager (Pr CPM) at the South African Council of Professional Construction Project Managers

Willem is a Professional Project Manager, in charge of the Project Management Division. He is also involved in general civil engineering projects as contracts manager/design engineer.

Willem has close to thirty years’ experience in general civil engineering infrastructure as well as built environment projects for both Private and Government clients locally, nationally, and internationally. Willem has been involved in the project management & design of a number of low cost housing developments, private residential developments and bulk & link engineering infrastructure master planning/construction projects over the last fifteen years. His technical design experience includes the design of civil services and municipal infrastructure (particularly hydraulic design – water supply modelling, planning and design) for commercial developments, municipal buildings & facilities, industrial zones and housing.

Academic Qualifications:

Pr Tech Eng
B Tech (Civil), Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Membership of professional societies:

ECSA: Registered as Professional Engineering Technologist at the Engineering Council of South Africa
SAICE: Member of South African Institution of Civil Engineering

Renier has more than fifteen years’ experience in the fields of project planning, civil engineering services design, contract & construction documentation, project & quality management (both as Contractor and Consultant) and construction administration mainly in the areas of urban engineering infrastructure and bulk civil engineering projects.

Renier specialises in the proper management of large urban engineering infrastructure projects. He fulfilled the role of Resident Engineer on numerous large civil engineering projects in South Africa and Zambia including an urban roads project in Zambia with a total value of R320 million.