Sanyati Central
Managing Director : Jannie Gutter
Operations Director : Louw de Bruin
Operations Director: Dirk Lourens
Financial Director : Werner Esterhuyse
Plant Director : Philip Roberts
Business Development Director: Dibuseng Machere
Sanyati Central provides a variety of civil engineering services and disciplines mainly in the Free State and Northern Cape. The division’s niche market sectors include telecommunications infrastructure, fibre optics, overhead electrification, railroad infrastructure and large road building projects.
This Bloemfontein-based business is able to provide multi-disciplinary construction solutions and offers this via its six different operational units:
- Plant and Logistics
- Roads and Earthworks
- Opencast Mining
- Rail Infrastructure
- Civil Engineering and Structures
- Telecommunications
- Electrical
Professional excellence
The division’s major achievements include:
- The major Soccer World Cup-related projects in the Free State
- the upgrading of the Free State Vodacom Stadium
- the upgrading of the N8 Bloemfontein airport access road managed by SANRAL
- The development of all the civil infrastructure for the United Manganese Mine in the Northern Cape
- The upgrading of the Sishen Saldanha Ore Line for Transnet.
- Design & Construction of Botsabelo Complex – Lesotho Blood Transfusion Services (LBTS) Center, National Reference Laboratory (NRL) Facility, Student Dormitories & Staff Accommodation at National Health Training College (NHTC)
People
Efficiency plays a vital part in the business and Sanyati Central’s employees are regarded as the key to unlocking the potential of the company, and are the reason for its success. The division’s philosophy is to ensure that the team functions as a family where each of its members is of equal importance.
Sanyati Central’s core strength is its ability to combine motivated teams consisting of civil, structural and electrical resources to ensure the successful completion of projects ranging from greenfields to maintenance projects anywhere on the African continent.
The division is innovative and incisive in meeting client needs as well as enjoying a positive relationship with the relevant consulting teams.
Plant and Logistics
Plant as an asset requires that it is managed professionally to ensure that it remains profitable and that the asset value is retained over the economic life span of the particular equipment.
The main focus of the Plant and Logistics Division is to provide the group’s different divisions (internal clients) with correct and functional plant, enabling them to complete projects within budget and on time.
The plant consists of over 260 units that include normal and specialist construction equipment, and operates as a normal commercial business unit that rents equipment at market-related rates to the various different projects within Sanyati.
Enterprise development
Sanyati Central is actively involved in a variety of BEE Contractors programmes in the division where emerging black contractors are given the opportunity to partner with the group on various projects. These ventures aim to realise the country’s full economic potential and follows a pragmatic growth strategy.
Numerous contractor development projects have failed in the past, and continue to fail, due to the emerging contractor not being prepared for the market environment and failing to successfully obtain further work on his own.
The key for the successfull implementation of any BEE Contractors programme is based on the following:
- Value added
- Economic viability
- Sustainability
The following framework plan has been put in place at Sanyati Central to mitigate as far as possible the pitfalls in the industry:
- Break-Out Packages
These packages focus on small sub-contract work where the selected emerging contractor is put into a pre-determined and agreed programme and time frame, resulting in the sustainable development of such a contractor. - Conventional Packages
The conventional packages are the least difficult to implement and should almost happen naturally as dictated by the market place and emerging contractors’ desire to take part in a joint venture.
Operational Units
Roads and Earthworks
This business unit aims to provide full service solutions covering three main areas across the broad spectrum of road and earth works construction value chain.
Roads and earthworks form the backbone of the unit’s engineering activities and have completed various projects successfully varying from telecommunication access roads, normally in difficult geographical conditions, large platforms for the mining industry and conventional roads that form part of the national roads network. Clients include SANRAL, provincial and local government, private sector clients such as Vodacom and MTN, as well as some large mining companies.
Surfacing
This unit’s expertise spans the full range of bituminous surfacing technology and provides the right combination of surfacing for each required application in this specialised field of knowledge. Support to clients includes technical advice relating to the bituminous surfacing industry as well as services ranging from design to construction and maintenance.
Electrical
Sanyati specializes in Total Turnkey Solutions-Design, Construct and Commission in the Power Line construction industry. It all started when Sanyati engaged with ABB and became a Sub Contractor for the Power Line Construction - EDM (Electricidade de Mozambique)Project- North to South of Maputo.
Sanyati's main task was to install 6 500 pre-stressed concrete masts for the Power Line. Operating in poor infrastructure conditions and support, Sanyati had to deploy specialized equipment to accommodate distribution of the pre-stressed concrete masts during the installation process. Specialized vehicles were constructed to handle the Mozambique conditions. Sanyati are fortunately placed to take advantage of this market in that we have expert knowledge of foundation and tower erection dating back to the huge rollout of towers for the mobile networks in South Africa and other African Countries. The construction of thousands of kilometres of pole routes, with bush clearing and the construction of servitude roads, often complicated by poor terrain or weather, rank amongst the companies achievements. With Sanyati intimate knowledge in the civil and tower construction field and access to all the specialist equipment needed to do stringing, it was a logical progression to start offering conductor stringing and line building services to the power utilities as well.
Professional Services: To provide tailor made solutions Sanyati has invested in highly qualified and skilled personnel. Our skills profile ranges from professional Engineers, Electrical Engineers, consultants, Quantity Surveyors to Qualified Electrical Technicians.
With our hands - on approach, nothing stands in our way to provide a workable and cost effective solution to our customers.
To deliver a High - Quality Power Line Construction Solution, Sanyati has a sophisticated blend of professional skills and capabilities and has developed a suite of professional services to provide a complete solution. Our services offered are targeted on and tailored to suite the customer's individual requirements and applications. Our performance are driven by uncompromising quality.
Our safety programme is our number one priority. In fact, we ensure the highest safety standards and compliance to the OHS act at the workplace. Our equipment is well-maintained and safety inspected biannually. Our employees hold all required certificates and we follow the most stringent safety rules for local unions and utilities.
Our highly trained network specialists commences with a comprehensive survey to determine the nature of the terrain and concludes a detailed process description of all the engineering difficulties to conclude a detailed and most cost effective solution.
Crushing
Crushed stone products form an integral part of the civil engineering and mining environment in the form of a wide range of crushed products, concrete stone, road stone and road building material. Sanyati has a state-of-the-art mobile crushing fleet with the ability to deliver any crushed product within specification anywhere in Africa, from single-stage to multi-stage crushing. This mobile crushing fleet can easily be deployed and is operational in a very short space of time.
Opencast mining
This unit is responsible for the development of mining infrastructure, especially all the civil-related work that includes the construction of all concrete structures (load out silos, etc), large platforms, roads, rail and water infrastructure; as well as the load dig and haul operation for the preservation of the top soil, opening up the mining pit and the mining of the ore from the opencast mine.
Rail Infrastructure
The efficient execution of projects within the challenging rail environment can be attributed to skilled knowledgeable teams understanding and meeting clients’ needs using rail-specific equipment for the jobs.
Sanyati Central’s first significant project was the De Aar to Kimberley OHTE (Over Head Traction Electricity) project during 1999, with a total length of 220 km. The unit has since grown into a fully-fledged business and offers the following full rail construction services:
- Railway infrastructure
- Civil construction
- Plate laying
- OHTE
- Design of overhead track equipment
- Drilling (Auger or Percussion) of mast foundations and stays
- Installation of concrete masts
- Bolt group foundations for steel masts and stay foundations
- Installation of rail track electrification 3kV DC, 25kV and 50kV AC lines
- Installation of transmission lines 11kV and 33kV
- Maintenance and rehabilitation of existing OHTE and transmission lines
- Building work
- A-Prep depots for maintenance of diesel or electric units
- Loco sheds
- Maintenance on existing station buildings and infrastructure
Civil Engineering and Structures
This unit’s focus is on niche projects that have either high time constraints or is technically complex. Projects successfully completed on a turn-key or conventional basis include water retaining structures, bridges, conventional structures, pre-cast concrete projects and the Vodacom Stadium upgrade for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.
Service delivery is based on a keen understanding of customer needs and requirements and Sanyati Central understands and recognises the value of a strong team for the successful implementation of any structural project, including the client, the professional team and construction specialists.
Telecommunications
Optic Fibre
The unit’s focus is to provide Outside Plant Engineering solutions consisting of products and services related to the passive part of an Optical Fibre Network. To deliver a high-quality Outside Plant Solution, Sanyati has a sophisticated blend of professional skills and capabilities and has developed a suite of professional services to provide a complete solution. These include:
- Optical Fibre OSP Network Solutions
- Underground OSP Solutions
- Overhead OSP Solutions
- Optical Fibre OSP Network Solutions Services
- Optical Fibre Testing
- Aerial installation
Sanyati Central has ensured, and continues to ensure, the success of every Telecoms Outside Plant Project. Customers include Telkom, M-Cell, Cell C, Vodacom, Spoornet, Botswana Telecommunications Corporation and Transtel.
GSM
Sanyati Central is a leading service provider of communication infrastructure build services of international standards to telecommunications, GSM networks, broadcast and electronic industries across Africa. The division provides turnkey solutions for Telco infrastructure projects to suit the specific requirements of its customers. Services include, but are not limited to, the supply of towers and masts as well as camouflaged antenna support structures.
With over 600 sites deployed to date, turnkey service includes:
- Site survey
- Site acquisition
- Rights of way
- Environmental impact assessment
- Access road construction
- Foundation works construction
- Tower and mast erection
- RF and microwave installation and commissioning of equipment (where required)
The division has successfully concluded projects in the most remote and geographical challenging circumstances and projects include:
- Mozambique – M-Cell
- Cell C
- Vodacom Central region
- MTN Central region
- Comores – Comores Telecom
- Telkom Dect projects
- Sentech base stations
Projects