Mount Edgecombe Interchange Supervisory Surveyor

Services used:

Construction surveying
Engineering surveying

Client: SMEC

Dates: 2014 - 2018

SANRAL, together with the KZN Department of Transport, is upgrading the existing N2/M41 Mount Edgecombe interchange north of Durban. The R816 million project consists of a large incrementally-launched bridge that will be constructed as a flyover for traffic from the M42 west to the N2 southbound. This bridge will be 26m high and 947m long, which will make it the longest incrementally launched bridge in South Africa. The second-largest bridge of the project will be 18m high and 443m long. In addition to these two large bridges, numerous other structures and road works have been constructed.

Scope:

Pre- and post-construction concrete survey checks.
Verification of quantities on the Contractor’s Certificate.
Layer works checking.
Earthworks setting out.
Structural monitoring of incrementally launched bridges.

Services used:

Construction surveying
Engineering surveying

Land Tenure and Housing Development in Edendale

Services used:

Land legal audits
Conveyancing
GIS
Valuation
Land surveying

Client: Msunduzi Municipality

Dates: 2003 - present

Edendale is a large and populous area situated to the north west of Pietermaritzburg, established as a segregated township by the apartheid government. Several thousand residential even were surveyed, starting in the early 1960s, although previous forms of land tenure have existed since the late 1800s. Due to poor control mechanisms and the chaotic nature of the apartheid government’s Deeds Registry and cadastral system, several forms of overlapping title have been granted over the course of the development, leading to multiple issues in administration and management of the land in the present day. GeoAfrika Surveys was tasked with developing a strategic response to this, clarifying land ownership and establishing systems to consolidate information going forward.

Scope:

Identifying duplicate titles (whether in the form of PTOs, Deeds of Grant or freehold title).
Unravelling old titles and upgrading tenure to freehold title in terms of the Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights Act 112 of 1991.
Identifying private or state land parcels that could be purchased or transferred to extend the development of the Greater Edendale Area.
Training and appointing Edendale-based facilitators, primarily in the support of the private land acquisition initiative.
Establishing a comprehensive Geographic Information System (GIS) and other integrated web-based systems in support of the above, and the provision of accurate financial, legal and administrative information as required by the Auditor General.

Services used:

Land legal audits
Conveyancing
GIS
Valuation
Land surveying

Daimler Laser Scan To Bim

Services used:

Laser scanning
Engineering surveying
BIM
CAD

Client: Daimler

Dates: 2017 - present

Daimler (Mercedes-Benz) South Africa are currently undertaking significant extensions and upgrades to their plant in East London. A number of the assembly and workshop warehouses are being extended during this programme, some of which date back to as far as the 1950s and contain wooden elements in the structural design. Over the years, there have been numerous upgrades and installations within the warehouses, some documented on CAD drawings and some undocumented. Daimler required a 3D BIM (Building Information Model) for two of their warehouses (totalling 75,000sqm) detailing all the major architectural, structural and MEP components of the buildings.

Scope:

Conducting high-resolution laser scans of the warehouses during assembly shutdown.
Registering laser scan data to the current site drawing system.
Extracting features into REVIT models and libraries, including architectural, structural, mezzanine, MEP and HVAC elements.
Converting REVIT models in IFC format for client use.

Services used:

Laser scanning
Engineering surveying
BIM
CAD

Royal Palm Estate

Services used:

Land audits
Conveyancing
Land surveying
Sectional title
GIS
Topographical surveying
Engineering surveying

Client: Royal Palm Estate

Dates: 2005 - present

Palm Lakes is a premium lifestyle development situated on the North Coast of KwaZulu-Natal. The estate comprises of residential, intermediate residential, commercial, mixed use, hotel and education sites, as well as various community facilities. It houses numerous sectional title developments, and has been well received by local and national buyers.

Scope:

Land assembly and planning: preparing land audits, compiling development application in terms of the Development Facilitation Act, and consolidating various portions of old sugarcane farms.
Topographical surveying of land for the design of engineering services, laying out of land parcels, and grading and pricing sites based on selected criteria.
Setting out of roads, bulk services and development footprints.
Beaconing of site boundaries and submission of general plans to Surveyor-General’s Office.
Sectional title surveys.
Various ad hoc town planning applications so as to change the development rights in keeping with the demands of the region.

Services used:

Land audits
Conveyancing
Land surveying
Sectional title
GIS
Topographical surveying
Engineering surveying

Sanral Land Survey Management

Services used:

Laser scanning
Engineering surveying
Project management
CAD
Land surveying
Land-legal services
Facilities management
Financial management
GIS

Client: SANRAL

Dates: 2015 - present

The South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) network comprises of nearly 22,691km of road infrastructure. This equates to an estimated 500 million hectares of land that requires administration, management and survey.

Scope:

Land administration and audits.
Legal consulting work.
Preparation of cadastral key plans based on declarations, existing cadastral parcels and future expansion of the road network.
Framing of acquisition diagrams.
Land surveying of new subdivisions and lease diagrams.
Engineering and topographical surveys for new construction projects.
Facilities management of SANRAL buildings and office parks.
Ad hoc consulting on specialised survey and legal issues.
Procurement management and quality control for surveys and other tenders issued by SANRAL.

Services used:

Laser scanning
Engineering surveying
Project management
CAD
Land surveying
Land-legal services
Facilities management
Financial management
GIS