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Civil Engineering March 2021 | Vol 29 No 2

FRONT COVER I
FROM THE PRESIDENT’S DESK 1
Leadership during a crisis 1
CONTENTS 2
ON THE COVER 4
The TRM piling system – transparency in design, installation & testing 4
FUN QUIZ 7
SAICE Know Your Sector Competition 7
CEO’S CORNER 8
Professionalising the public service 8
ETHICS 10
Thinking like an ethical engineer in challenging times 10
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING 12
Design and construction of a concrete tied-arch bridge in Ashton, Western Cape 12
Upgrading the De Beers Interchange 18
No steel, poor soil: no problem 22
KES Aquatic Centre – a structural engineering feat 25
Out-the-box thinking drives innovation for bridge project 31
The value of good geotechnical information within structural design 33
Concrete testing, an imperative for accurate assessment and maintenance of concrete structures 36
Steel Awards – standing strong in trying times 41
New Replacement Swingbridge at the V&A Waterfront 41
Bakers Transport Cato Ridge 43
The Precinct Lifestyle Hub 44
Menlyn Maine West Atrium Skylight 45
New Barloworld and Caterpillar head office and showroom 46
Douala Grand Mall 47
Vamosem semi mobile crushing plant 48
Whale Trail Staircase 49
WATER WEEK 50
Valuing water 50
Water Week should be more than promises and rhetoric 51
Protecting coastlines from fishing lines 53
Supporting development through effective water data management 54
MARKET INSIGHT 56
Rebuilding with purpose 56
Allyson Lawless hands structural software business to Polka Engineering Software 57
Investing in the future of Africa’s infrastructure 58
Government policy support essential to revive M&E sector 59
GEOSTRUCTURAL ENGINEERING 60
Digging deeper – a review of South African practice on deep excavation design in 60
RESEARCH 68
Assessing programme clause changes in the 2017 FIDIC Red Book 68
Stimulating the STEM sector 70
SAICE AND PROFESSIONAL NEWS 72
Introducing the SAICE Structural Division 72
In Memoriam: Joop Zwamborn 74
SAICE Training Calendar 2021 74
CARTOON 69
Civillain by Johan Ptak: Taking off the training wheels 69
BACK COVER 82

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