Construction World June 2019

CONSULTING ENGINEERS

Like a shooting star on a cloudy evening, Nyeleti Consulting Engineers has grown from a four-person band in 1999 to a 120 strong staff company 20 years later, thanks to a transforming civil engineering sector, supportive government policy and serious personal sacrifices by its founding partners. 20 years of ENGINEERING

I n the past two decades, the company has invested heavily in attracting the correct expertise to build its team, got involved in some iconic infrastructure projects which have made mobility easy such as the Reading Interchange tunnel in the South of Johannesburg, significant elements of the Gautrain route development, Kusile Power Station and projects that delivered the 2010 Soccer World. The company has enjoyed organic growth over the past twenty years and has diversified within the civil engineering industry offering wide range of consulting services to both public and private.

Although, the beginning was not easy for the founding directors Stanford Mkhacane and Pine Pienaar. “At the time that we decided to start the company, the public and political attention was moving toward the establishment of black-owned companies on the one hand and supporting small enterprises on the other hand. We saw this as an opportunity to leave the large, international company where we were both employed at the time, and to start a new firm meeting the political and institutional needs of the day,” says Pienaar, Nyeleti Consulting CEO. Despite an enabling environment, Nyeleti had to go through

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