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SCOPE OF SERVICES
OFFERED
RPS ILANGABI Engineering Services provide
Project Management Services for a broad spectrum of Electrical and
Mechanical Installations including:
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Transmission Systems
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Transmission lines up to 13kv,
including planning, profiling, designing and templating.
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Injection and switching substations
up to 132kv.
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Overheard and Underground Municipal
and Rural Distribution Systems.
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Distribution Systems
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Low cost Reticulation Systems.
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Overhead Reticulation Systems.
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Underground Reticulation Systems.
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Electrical Load and Distribution Management Systems
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Lighting Installations
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Street Lighting.
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Area Lighting.
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Highway Lighting.
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Stadium Lighting.
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All types of buildings.
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Telemetering and Telecontrol Systems
RPS ILANGABI Engineering Services offers a wide
scope of Mechanical and Electrical Services from the Concept Phase
through to the Final Handover Stage. Our typical
involvement during the life-cycle of a project is as follows:
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Concept Phase
Our initial involvement in a proposed
project entails interpreting the exact requirements of the client and
assisting with the identification of the responsibilities of the various
role players who would be involved. Preliminary design
specifications and concept drawings would be drawn up for the required
disciplines, together with budgetary and estimates based upon the design
specifications. A preliminary program is compiled and a front –
end analysis performed to address issues such as risk analysis,
standardisation, etc.
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Design Phase
During the design phase, we perform
feasibility studies and take into consideration Engineering factors such
as manpower, training, maintenance, etc. which may influence the design.
Once the design is finalized, detailed
design drawings are prepared, together with a Configuration Management
Plan, i.e. Engineering Change Proposal System.
A Quality Assurance Plan is prepared
for Acceptance Test Procedures. Thereafter, the general and
detailed specifications and bills of quantities are prepared and
specific contractual conditions stipulated.
Once approval is obtained from the
client and/or procuring authorities, a tender enquiry document is
compiled.
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Tender Phase
Tenders are called for and once the
priced documents have been received, they are adjudicated and a detailed
report is prepared and submitted to the client.
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Construction Phase
This is the stage when the official
site handover to the subcontractor(s) is performed, and site visits and
meetings arranged, attended and minuted. The subcontractor’s
performance is closely monitored with particular regard to
specification, quality and schedule. Monthly claims and variation
orders are processed.
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Testing and
Commissioning Phase
Testing and commissioning of system(s)
are witnessed and supervised in accordance with the specification and
the relevant test with certificates and documentation are obtained.
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Training Phase
We undertake the responsibility of
witnessing the expertise of relevant staff, maintenance personnel,
supervisor operators and maintenance training and also obtain all
relevant certificates and user documentation.
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Final Handover
Once the works have been inspected and
are found to meet the required standards, the official site handover to
the client is performed.
Our expertise in the field of
Electrical Building Services includes, but is not limited to, the
following:
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HV and MV installations.
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Lighting protection and earthing.
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Building Electrical Services.
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Area lighting.
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Generator/essential supply installation/standby
electricity supply systems.
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Telephone/PABX installations.
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Motor/pump control and protection.
MECHANICAL BUILDING SERVICES
Our expertise in the field of
Mechanical Building Services include, but is not limited to, the
following:
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Hot and cold water system installations.
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Fire protection and detection systems installations.
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Access control/security systems, including surveillance
camera installations.
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Freezer and cold room installations.
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Lift and escalator installations.
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Steam boiler and steam reticulation systems
installations.
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Medical gas, LP gas, vacuum and compressed air
installations.
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Fuel deposits and associated dispensing system
installations.
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Hardware/software interface specifications.
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Kitchen and laundry equipment installations.
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TYPICAL
ORGANOGRAM FOR ELECTRICAL RETICULATION PROJECTS
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Advise on technical and regulatory
possibilities in the ICT sector. Need to make sense of ADSL, Diginet,
Martis, ISDN etc – we know the fixed line and cellular industry.
BUSINESS CONSULTANCY
We are experienced in process analyses
and systems mapping.
Traditionally,
businesses have in the main, concern themselves with profit maximisation
with scant regard to social issues like skills, training, empowerment
and employment creation. The influence of a democratic
dispensation has forced this view to change somewhat, largely due to
social pressures by non-governmental organizations, civil society and
governmental initiatives.
At
RPS ILANGABI Engineering
Services, social development and empowerment issues are at the heart of
our operations. This, comes naturally, perhaps because of our
nature as a Black Economic Empowerment Corporation. We are
convinced that it is not only desirable, but indeed necessary to create
wealth while solving social problems. Indeed, it is not a sustainable
position to be an island of wealth in a sea of poverty. We are
thus determined to shoulder our fair share of the social burdens of
unemployment (with its attendant evils of poverty and crime), ignorance
and underdevelopment.
We at
RPS ILANGABI Engineering
Services, have thus taken a conscious decision to actively encourage
community involvement in all our activities. This way, skills will
be developed, employment created and economic activities stimulated in
the underdeveloped communities.
Further, the development
of the small micro to medium enterprises (which are key to the economic
development of the country), will be enhanced through the encouragement
of entrepreneurship. For us therefore, the issues go far beyond
for an example, the mere provision of electricity. Our aim is to
promote the Community Co-ordination Committees concept and in the
following brief discussions, we indicate how these would work in project
management:
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All our projects would
have to be designed and implemented in such a way that they are
labour intensive.
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Equipment and
materials should be provided so that they do not act as barriers for
the small community based contractors.
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As far as possible,
all community based projects should have a training component so
that previous experience and skills do not deter the small
contractors.
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Project documentation
should be as simple as possible to enable the inexperienced
contractors and labourers to do the work.
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