Sparks Electrical News January 2022

CONTRACTORS’ CORNER

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2021 Presidential Awards celebrate the triumph of the human spirit

Deon Blom, Construction Manager, accepted Besamandla’s Best Con- tributor to Renewable Energy award for the project Aggeneys 40 MW PV Solar Facility.

Stanley Neyt, General Manager: Operations, Reliant Electrical, accepted the award for Installation of the Year – Office Blocks – for the North- West University (Vaal) New Administrative Building.

Ben Potgieter, HSE Manager and Nicola Goosen, Contracts Administrator from B&W Instrumentation and Electrical with the award for Installation of the Year – Industrial (Sappi Saiccor Project).

Francois Marshall, Senior Projects Manager, Besamandla, with the Reticulation Contractor of the Year award for the Wesley Wind Farm Facility, Year 2 project.

Elrid Pillay, SHEQ Manager, with Besamandla’s National Safety Award for the Konkoonsies Solar Project.

Morne Joubert, Vyfster Elektries – winner Installation of the Year (Resi- dential) for House Diedericks in Pretoria.

Nathaniel Molibeli (Site Manager); Werner Coetzer (Site Manager); Brett Harrison (Managing Director); and Bert Vicente (Project Manager) with Reliant Electric’s Special Innovative Projects Award for the Ngodwana Energy 25 MW Biomass Power Plant.

Martin Jacobs (Contracts Manager) and Prea Singh (Quantity Surveyor)) with Edison Power Gauteng’s award for Installation of the Year – Retail and Shopping Centres for the Tlhabane Square contract.

Chris Koen, ECA Regional Director, Highveld.

Andrew Edwards, Head of Electrical Sales at HellermannTyton and Tiisetso Nthite Male and Overall Apprentice of the Year

Sagon Crowie, director, Presto Electrical, accepted the Apprentice Host Employer of the year award.

ECA First Vice-President, Frans Swanepoel, hands over the trophy for Fe- male Apprentice of the Year to Angel Mkhomazi (Training Manager, ECA Training Centre) and Stephen Khola (HR and Labour Relations Director, ECA) who accepted it on behalf of Nokwanda Danisa, who was unable to attend the event.

A ll the finalists in the ECA’s Presidential Excel- lence Awards showed that the coronavirus pandemic could not stop great companies from achieving great things, proving that when the go- ing gets tough, the tough get going. The winners are all indeed winners for coming out on top and once again, raising the bar for excellence in the electrical contract- ing industry. The event, which was a grand affair with Mpho as Master of Ceremonies, was live streamed to an audience across South Africa from the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg. The winners and finalists are:

Winner: Vyfster Elektries (House Diedericks) First Runner-up: Vyfster Elektries (House Geldenhuys) Second Runner-up: Vyfster Elektries (House Viljoen) Installation of the Year – Residential (Complexes) Sponsored by Major Tech Winner: ISE Group (The August Apartment) Installation of the Year – Office Blocks Sponsored by ECASAWired Newsletter Winner: Reliant Electric (North-West University – Vaal

New Administrative Building) First Runner-up: Edison Power Gauteng (Deloitte South Africa HQ at River Creek, Waterfall, Midrand) Second Runner-up: Edison Power KZN (SANBS) Installation of the Year – Hotels/Hospitals Sponsored by Major Tech Winner: Besamandla (Khotsong TB Hospital) First Runner-up: Edison Power Gauteng (Chris Hani Baragwanath 500-Bed Hospital) Second Runner-up: ISE Group (Shamwari Private Game Reserve)

Installation of the Year – Industrial Sponsored by DEHN Africa Winner: B&W Instrumentation and Electrical (Sappi Saiccor Vulindlela Project) First Runner-up: Besamandla (Cape Town Data Centre Phase 2) Second Runner-up: Edison Power KZN (D Fence K297 Manufacturing)

Installation of the Year – Residential (Housing) Sponsored by Shuttle Lighting

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