Civil Engineering January/February 2021 | Vol 29 No 1

Civil Engineering January/February 2021 41 and gained 25 years’ experience in designing and design supervision in these fields. He went on to manage regional offices and project portfolios nationally in a multi- discipline engineering environment for almost 14 years. Johan retired from Transnet Group Capital in 2019 as Technical Director: Engineering & Design Services. Vishaal Lutchman Vishaal Lutchman Pr Eng, who has been a devoted member of SAICE since 1998, took over as CEO of the Institution in March 2020. Vishal graduated in 1999 from the University of Natal with a BSc in Engineering and registered professionally with ECSA in 2005. He also pursued an MBA through the University of KwaZulu- Natal in 2008 and recently obtained his Master’s in Philosophy Leadership from the University of Johannesburg. Prior to taking the helm at SAICE, Vishaal held executive roles at SSI Engineers and Environmental Consultants, Royal Haskoning DHV, and WSP Group Africa. Vishaal’s extensive industry experience encompasses various critical areas such as project management, strategy development, project implementa- tion, capacity planning, viability and business case development, best practice project governance, and risk management. Vishaal has also focused on integrating organisational strategy, operations, and technical capacity with future-fit leadership for development of African solutions. Adriaan Meintjes Adriaan Meintjes Pr Eng is a civil geotechnical engineer with over 30 years’ experience in geo- technical engineering, with a particular focus on tailings and water dam engineering. In the past he was involved with soil and rock slope engineering, including the engineering of a number of high embankment fills and rock cuts. His current focus is on tailings dam engineering, specifically to consider the rapidly changing requirements; to design, oversee construction and operations; surveillance and performance monitoring of active TSFs; and TSF planning for closure and post-closure. Adriaan obtain an M Eng in structural engineering from Stellenbosch University as well as an MSc in Geotechnical Engineering at Imperial College London. He is privileged to have worked in 43 countries on various geotechnical engineering projects from desert conditions to the tropics and peri-glacial conditions. Adriaan is a profes- sionally registered engineer in South Africa and has participated in the preparation of more than 15 papers. Prof Pilate Moyo Professor Pilate Moyo Pr Eng is currently Head of the Department of Civil Engineering and Director of the Concrete Materials and Structural Integrity Research Unit at the University of Cape Town. His research is focused on the development and deployment of intelligent structural health monitoring and structural assessment technologies by integrating finite element modelling, a range of full-scale field measurements, including full-scale vibra- tion and non-destructive testing, as well as advanced data analysis algorithms. His re- search seeks to improve infrastructure man- agement and maintenance through reliable, robust, and practical tools. Pilate is regularly consulted by industry, both locally and internationally, on structural integrity evalu- ation of infrastructure and he has published widely in these areas. Pilate is a Fellow of the South African Academy of Engineering, a member of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering, and a member of the International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure. Jan Norris Jan Norris Pr Eng has been a director of JG Afrika since 2010, based in their Pietermaritzburg office, and represents the KwaZulu-Natal region at Board level. She joined JG Afrika (formally Jeffares & Green) in 1996 as a geotechnical engineer, and prior to that had been working for Thames Water in the UK. She has a BSc (Hons) in Civil Engineering from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Surrey. She was the only female in her graduation class in 1989 and is very happy to see the increase in the number of female engineers in the workplace today. She was chair of the SAICE Pietermaritzburg Branch in 2004 and is on the Advisory Board for the University of KwaZulu-Natal. In 2015 she was appointed as the Chief Engineer for the Geotechnical Investigation Contract for the Lesotho Highlands Water Project Phase II. Pieter Oosthuizen Pieter Oosthuizen Pr Eng graduated from the University of Johannesburg (then Rand Afrikaans University), with B Eng (Civil) and M Eng (Civil) degrees in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Following graduation, a short stint as contractor at Grinaker Civil Engineering Inland took him to Okahandja in Namibia and the Lorraine Gold Mine in the Free State. In 1996, Pieter joined the geotechnical department at ARQ Consulting Engineers as a geotechnical engineer and later an associate. Under the expert guidance of Alan Parrock, he undertook a broad range of interesting and challenging projects in the geotechnical field at ARQ. In 2007, Pieter left ARQ and established Southern Geotechnical Engineering, during which time he also completed his MBA degree at the University of Pretoria. Since then, Pieter has continued to work in the geotechnical field, advising clients in the private sector, engineering consultants, and geotechnical contractors with geotechnical related problems. Alan Robinson Alan Robinson Pr Eng specialises in traffic and transportation engineering and has 32 years of experience as a consultant to private and public sector clients in all spheres of govern- ment. More recently, he joined Sanral as a specialist traffic engineer to develop traffic forecasting and engineering capabilities in the public sector. In addition to general traffic and transportation engineering and modelling, Alan’s specialty is the development of investment grade traffic and transportation models for the forecasting of traffic and revenue streams used in PPP pro- jects such as toll roads. In addition, Alan has developed methodologies and protocols for