Haw & Inglis - Nov 2019

HAW & INGLIS

HAW & INGLIS

Construction Revival Suits H&I Down to the Ground PRODUCTION: William Denstone

Established in 1984, Haw & Inglis (H&I) began life taking on minor infrastructure and services contracts before rapidly evolving to take on huge road and reconstruction projects, as well as building construction contracts. “H&I has established itself as one of the leading independent contractors operating throughout South Africa, recently expanding market focus to include certain SADC countries,� the company sets out.

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Based in the Western Cape, H&I specialises in projects of significant size and complex scope which encompass road construction, road rehabilitation, infrastructure and building construction, operating throughout South Africa and neighbouring states.

The 20km stretch from Vredenburg to Velddrift completed in 1986 represented H&I’s first major road contract, and has been followed since by ever bigger rehabilitation jobs. Among the best examples of its meteoric rise is the Chapman’s Peak Reconstruction Project, in which H&I is a 40% partner in the Entilini Concession.

Having commenced in 2002, it has seen the company design, build, operate and continue to maintain the road for the ensuing 20 years.

In a timeline peppered with such highlights, the construction giant’s work on the 2010 World Cup also stands out

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as being especially noteworthy, with its three infrastructure projects on the Western Cape exposing its work much to a much wider and larger audience.

“Haw & Inglis focuses on being competitive and innovative,” the company says, “to continue offering its clients superior personal service whilst providing employees a culture that recognises and rewards independent initiative.”

SPECIALIST SKILLS Constantly building on its skillset, as H&I has grown in size and scope so have its capabilities. At the turn of the millennium it established Great Karoo Crushing (GKC), and in 2003 competed its first project outside of South Africa - the 120km road from Rosh Pinah to Aus in the Karas Region of southern Namibia.

During the past thirty-five years the group has developed into a

multi-disciplinary business and is now a leading independent contracting company operating throughout South Africa and SADC territories.

The holding company comprises two primary business units - Haw and Inglis Projects, which has its primary focus on building construction and H&I Construction, focused on all aspects of road construction, rehabilitation and infrastructure.

Key acquisitions in its lifetime, firstly of Peak Projects and later of Ursa Civils, have been vital to H&I’s rapid growth: these have boosted H&I’s specialised concrete construction capacity markedly, while adding crucial wind farm and wastewater treatment capabilities to its armoury.

These were put to perfect use in the construction of H&I’s first wind farm: the West Coast 1 has a capacity of 94 Megawatts and was inaugurated at the close of 2015.

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“Whilst the company’s core focus is major National and Provincial arterial roads and urban highways, its expertise extends to urban

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infrastructure and select institutional, industrial, commercial, residential and other building projects,” H&I proudly sums up of the result of its journey to date. Expanding its capacities and capabilities continues to bring H&I into the mix for an ever-wider array of jobs, and most recently landed it the contract for the construction of a new school building for Crestway High School, in Cape Town.

The tender granted to Haw & Inglis Projects is for a 14-month, R56m project, to include space for 1110 children and 30 classrooms, as well as a 555m² hall and administration block. It was warmly welcomed by all at the school, with teacher Ashley Jaftha summing up the prevailing mood and the positive reverberations it will cause. “We are extremely happy and we are looking forward to it. It

has been a long time coming, so we are excited and we think it is going to uplift the school, community and the broader area as well.”

Haw & Inglis was also integral in the Transnet National Ports Authority’s (TNPA) R542-million injection into several major infrastructure and equipment projects at the Port of East London. Invested over recent years as part of Operation Phakisa, it includes the R219-million refurbishment of the dry dock to support ship repair and marine manufacturing and the R108-million project to rehabilitate the 83-metre wharf adjacent to the Princess Elizabeth Dry Dock and Latimer’s Landing.

“Construction contractor Haw & Inglis sourced labour and material locally, in line with Transnet’s supplier development requirements,”

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POISED FOR GROWTH 2010’s World Cup was a key time for Haw & Inglis, and it also marked the last time that the South African construction industry experienced anything approaching a real boom.

However, despite a technical recession in the first and second quarters of this year, 2018’s economic instability and poor performances

by State-owned enterprises and its negative effect on civil construction, there is cause for optimism yet.

The South African government’s economic stimulus plan is to pump billions into infrastructure development, and research giant Fitch Solutions expects 2019 to be the year the sector finally emerges from recession, with its 2019 sub-Saharan Africa construction growth report positing year-on-year growth of 6.8%.

Total infrastructure spend is expected to total R855-billion over the next three years, an increase of 2.5% on last year.

Economist Dr Roelof Botha, who compiles the Afrimat

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“The gradual implementation of the new growth plan published by the National Treasury places emphasis on creating new infrastructure and targeting sectors with high growth and employment creation potential,” he explained, “which could consolidate the latest modest recovery of construction sector activity and lead to a new sustained growth path.”

The South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) plans to issue tenders for major road construction projects

worth more than R40bn as part of this plan, which, as its famed speciality, will be music to H&I’s ears. “We expect a surge in road construction projects over the medium-term framework as part of the broader national efforts to invest in economic infrastructure,” said Louw Kannemeyer, the roads agency’s engineering executive.

“We are confident the R40 billion in tenders that are in the pipeline will benefit the broader construction sector and contribute to the growth of new enterprises who have been excluded from major contracts in the past.”

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