Vela VKE offers a range of professional consulting engineering services covering conceptualization, planning, design, management, construction, operation, maintenance and rehabilitation of infrastructure. With over 60 years of South African, African and International engineering experience we are able to provide our clients with cost effective, comprehensive and innovative solutions. We are dedicated to continuous improvement through quality management in all our areas of expertise and have deservedly earned a reputation for technical excellence in many engineering disciplines.

 

Expertise

Civil Engineering

Vela VKE offers a fully comprehensive service for all types of civil engineering projects. The Division works in close collaboration with specialists inside and outside the firm to provide efficient and cost effective solutions.

Project concept and feasibility planning
Highway and water tunnel design
Rock support and tunnel lining design
Geotechnical investigations and related designs
Aerial survey and mapping
River and facilities management, operation, maintenance and monitoring
Hydrology and hydraulics
Erosion protection measures along rivers
Abstraction, storage and energy dissipation weirs
Pump stations and pipelines
Appurtenant engineering works such as intake and outlet structures and tunnel ventilation shafts
Contract documentation and construction supervision

Electrical

Bulk electricity supply for townships and industrial sites.
Internal electricity reticulation for townships.
Internal electrical distribution systems for offices.
Stand-by, UPS and emergency power supply systems.
Lighting systems for highways, freeways, streets and public areas.
Lighting systems for offices and buildings.
Electrical control systems for sewerage plants.
Electrical reticulation systems for water pump stations.
Lightning protection systems for buildings and other structures.
Security and access systems for prisons and buildings.
Earthing systems for buildings, structures and electronic systems.
Investigations into network communication instability caused by electrical distribution systems.

Geotechnical

Pavements and materials:
Flexible pavement design
Concrete pavement design
Gravel road design
Road and airfield rehabilitation, including concrete, flexible and gravel pavement structures
Heavy-load pavement design
Materials evaluation and utilisation
Asphalt and seal design
Tender adjudication

Geotechnical services:
Dolomite
Bridge foundations
Undermining
Earth dams
Townships
Building foundations
Roads
Waste disposal, including tailings dams
Tunnels

Construction supervision:
Construction supervision
Construction monitoring
Occupational health and safety services

Management

Public Private Partnerships
Transaction and Institutional Adviser Services
Management Systems
Project Development and Management

Municipal Services

Community water supply for townships
Asset management of large and small enterprises
Urban development, revitalisation, rehabilitation and upgrades
Water demand and leakage management, including bulk meter and pressure reducing valve sizing, site positioning and installation.
Pump stations, pipelines, reservoirs and water towers including water and wastewater treatment works and process design
Pipe condition assessment, renovation and upgrading
Institutional and social development specialising in BEE projects
Training and capacity building
Roads and stormwater drainage
Buildings and services (mainly focused on housing developments , community facilities i.e. clinics, community halls etc)
Public lighting

Railways

Vela VKE offers a fully comprehensive service on all projects. The Railways Division works in close collaboration with specialists in other divisions in order to provide efficient and cost effective solutions.
Rail master planning
Route planning
Track alignment design
Design of appurtenant civil engineering works
Track design
Logistics
Design of other railway facilities such as maintenance depots
Construction supervision

Roads

Urban Arterial Roads
Rural Roads
Urban and Rural Freeways
Road Rehabilitation using asphalt and concrete pavement solutions
Road Management Systems including pavement and asset management systems

Structures

Incremental Launching
Balanced cantilever construction
Bridge jacking
Advancing shoring
Composite construction
Cable-stayed decks
Internal and external prestressing and post-tensioning
Design for earthquake loading
Pre-cast Segmental construction
Floating concrete caissons for river bridge pier foundations
A bridge pulling technique for installing a major freeway bridge under a 25m high embankment
Pretensioned concrete bridge handrails designed to replace vandalized aluminium handrails
Epoxy-bonded steel plating to improve resistance to shear and bending stresses
Strengthening by the grouting in of bending and shear bars

Sustainability

Vela VKE prides itself in being involved in many aspects of project sustainability. Our involvement ranges from being involved with and assisting clients to understand sustainability issues on their projects through to becoming involved in the development and implementation of alternative energy solutions.

Transportation

Traffic and Transportation Planning
Traffic Modelling
Traffic Impact Assessments
Public Transport Systems and Facilities
Transportation Policy and Legislation
Airport Runways and Improvements
Toll Road Viability Studies