Civil Engineering August 2022 | Vol 30 No 7

6 August 2022 Civil Engineering oN THE COVER T he Group’s first division, Mukona Consulting Engineers, opened its doors in June 2017 as a general civil and geo- technical engineering consulting firm. Today Mukona Group employs around 100 people and is split into three key divisions: Mukona Consulting Engineers, Mukona Geotechnics, and Mukona In Situ. The Group boasts a broad range of in-house technical skills which include registered profes- sional engineers and natural scientists. The consulting and geotechnical divisions are also ISO 9001:2015 accredited and in the process of obtaining 45001:2018 certification. MUKONA CONSULTING ENGINEERS The consulting side of the business has its roots in the company’s initial foundations and is registered with Consulting Engineers South Africa. The business offers a wide range of cost-effective civil, structural and geotechnical consulting services to consulting engineers, contractors, mines, as well as private and public companies using state-of- the-art software which includes Plaxis 2D, Plaxis 3D, MIDAS 3D GTNX, DatGEL, and LPile. MUKONA GEOTECHNICS Geotechnical engineering has always been Mukona’s core business, and in November 2018 the Group launched Mukona Geotechnics, which provides specialised geotechnical ser- vices to a range of customers in the mining and civil engineering industries. Home to around 80% of the Mukona Group’s staff complement, Mukona Geotechnics performs site investigations, geotechnical drilling, installation of pile foun- dations, lateral support, ground improvements, and construction supervision for geotechnical engineering projects. The division also owns its own fleet of drilling equipment, comprising almost 30 rigs, including rotary drill rigs, percussion drill rigs, piling rigs, pile driving rigs for solar foundations, lateral support rigs, and CPTu testing rigs. MUKONA IN SITU In 2019 Mukona In Situ was established in part- nership with UK-based InSitu Site Investigation Leading turnkey geotechnical solutions Mukona Group is an accredited Level 1 B-BBEE South African-owned engineering company providing turnkey geotechnical engineering services to the mining, public and private sectors. Installing piles for a jewellery manufacturing plant in Kempton Park Rotary core drilling for Palabora Mining Company in Limpopo