SAICE / MURRAY & ROBERTS STEEL – COMPETITION

Win a trip to Mauritius, kindly sponsored by Murray & Roberts Steel (click here for more information on their operations in Mauritius)!

All you have to do to get into the lucky draw for the winning prize, is to submit the correct answer to our monthly questions. You may enter as many times as you wish. Good luck!

Here is this month’s first question:

Name the machine recently acquired by Murray & Roberts Steel as part of their ongoing investment in reinforcing assembly and continuous application innovations.

A. RENTEX
B. SPIREX
C. T-REX

Click here for a clue…

Click here for the entry form

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Murray & Roberts Steel, a Murray & Roberts Group company actively transforms the rebar industry and promotes modern, organised, safe and green solution. To this extend Research & Development has necessitated substantial investment in reinforcing assembly and continuous stirrup applications. These processes simplify and automate reinforcement fabrication and installation both off & on site in the construction environment.

Murray & Roberts Steel provides expertise in the manufacture, fabrication, supply and installation of rebar, reinforcing mesh, post tensioning and strata control products. We service the construction, civils and mining industries through these innovative products and services.

Murray & Roberts Steel has recently supplied reinforcing solutions to major construction projects undertaken in South Africa including the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link, GreenPoint & Peter Mokaba Stadiums, as well as the Medupi Power Station and Ingula Power Pump Station. The Green Building Council of South Africa’s five-star environmental rating is sought to be achieved at the prestigious Villa Mall which was also supplied by ourselves.

Click here to download the Project Award Rules.
Click here to download the Project Award entry from in MS Word format.

The gala Awards evening is taking place on 12 October 2010. This event is kindly sponsored by Murray and Roberts Steel. There is a special category for the Mega Projects that were identified as part of the 2010 infrastruture process and a great selection of projects for our Awards for Technical Excellence.  As soon as the list has been finalised, we will list the finalists on this page. Photo Competition winners will also be announced at this event. Please show your support for our brilliant civil engineers! We look forward to spending a festive evening with all our guests.

The rules are currently under review but entrants will be notified of when the reviewed rules are to be applied. At this stage the rules available from this page still apply and should be adhered to. The deadline for regional winning submissions from branches as well as any other submissions that are not required by the branch competitions, is on 1 July 2010. Please contact Zina Girald at SAICE National Office for further information.

The winners of the Aquatan SAICE Project Awards for Civil Engineering Excellence were annouced on 15 October 2009 at the Forum, the Campus in Bryanston.

The winners were:

A commendation was awarded to 'iSimangaliso Wetland Park Infrastructure Development' in the Community Based category.

The winning project for the Community-based category was 'Ultra Thin Reinforced Concrete Pavement Demonstration Road, Soshanguve'.

There was no commendation in the Technical Excellence category, however, joint winners were announced as follows:

'Foundations for the Moses Mabhida Stadium Arch'

'Gansbaai Water Treatment Works'

There was no commendation in the International category, the winner was 'Mandena Mine Salinity Control Weir'

Submissions received:

Community-based Projects

• iSimangaliso Wetland Park Infrastructure Development
• EPWP Vuk'uphile Learnership Project for George & Mossel Bay Municipalities
• Twenty Townships Upgrading Roads Programme: Road 36,11, Soshanguwe

Technical Excellence Projects

• Helderberg Coastal Sewer
• Design and construction of the Mohokare Bridge over the Caledon River
• Safety improvement measures: Kaaimans Pass
• Western Freeway Upgrade
• Foundations for the Moses Mabhida Stadium Arch
• New Dense Effluent Marine Outfall and associated Head Works
• Waverley Park Phase 2
• Northern Wastewater Treatment Works
• Gansbaai Water Treatment Works

International Projects

• Ntimbale Dam - Botswana
• Mandena Mine Salinity Control Weir
• Development of Mirdif Interchange - Dubai

The 2010 competition will include a special section for stadiums with categories for both stadium upgrades and newly built stadiums.

For more information, contact Zina Girald at SAICE, Tel: 27 (0)11 805 5947 or zgirald@saice.org.za.