Eskom, South Africa’s primary electricity provider, commissioned the building of a coal-fueled power plant in Medupi, Limpopo with Ovivo contracted to design, build, implement the installation process with accompanying training manual, roll-out of training to Eskom staff to operate and maintain the facilities plus performance review throughout the stage gates. Our MD served as the principal planner for these water plants that used a multi-methodology of clarification, ultrafiltration, ion exchange organic scavenger reverse osmosis, CEDI, gas transfer membranes, pressure swing absorption, and a condensate polishing plant.
Category: Projects
Ecole National d ’Administration in the Democratic Republic of Congo
An excellent example of our expertise in developmental projects was the establishment of their National School of Governance – Ecole National d’Adminstration (ENA) – in Kinshasa, DRC. We established ENA as part of a partnership between the DRC and South African governments with the assistance of the Belgian Technical Committee and the United Nations Development Programme. From concept through to strategy development, operational planning, capacitating of the senior management, rolling out interim training to 1885 senior DRC public servants in change, financial, human resources, and project management, all with top students per course enrolled for Training the Trainer to qualify as facilitators and moderators. We further undertook the design, planning and refurbishment of the physical facilities to be an optimal environment for research, curriculum development and training.
Anglo American Quellaveco Copper Mine in Peru
Formed part of the controls and planning senior owner’s team for the development and expansion of 36-year projected period of copper mining in Quellaveco, Peru with a set target of producing 300,000 tonnes annually in the first ten years of the project life cycle. Informed by extensive consultation with Peruvian civil society organisations and communities in the Moquegua region, the project scope was extended to include water management making clean water accessible to the mining communities and contributing to environmental restoration integrating ESG principles to practice with as of 2022, 48 local community projects funded, 20 entrepreneurial networks established and a public / private governance initiate for the regional area surrounding the extent of the mining operations; all of which needed to be included in the project controls and planning discipline from the outset with regular reviews towards meeting targets at junctures including the relevant adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Anglo American Mogalakwena Third Concentrator in South Africa
Mogalakwena platinum mine situated in Mokopane in Limpopo consists of five open pits which had two concentrators, commissioned a third concentrator whose planning lead within the controls team was the Faolan MD. The addition expanded mining production to an estimated period of 2060, improved operational efficiency and exceeded previous financial gains through detailed integrated planning, schedule development and performance reviews aligning all project roles towards achieving the plan set for each stage meeting the scope within approved time and budget.
