Civil Engineering July 2022 | Vol 30 No 6

Civil Engineering July 2022 47 your approach. Although the fundamentals remain, you grow and develop new skills with each project you are involved in.” Peter Davies Pr CM, FAArb (SA) Portfolio: Events and site visits Peter is a civil engineer with 40 years’ ex- perience in the construction industry in- ternationally, with extensive experience in sub-Saharan Africa. Throughout his career, Peter has held various executive positions with contractors and was employed with Aveng Grinaker-LTA for almost 30 years. Currently Peter has his own company – Peter Davies and Associates, providing various services to the construction industry – and serves as an alternative dispute resolution practitioner. One of the highlights of his career was the construction a 146 km road in a remote desert area of Ethiopia. The road was from Gewane to Mille, a section of the main road between Addis Ababa and Djibouti, and there were huge logistical problems, including having the asphalt plant dropped in the sea while offloading, but the team still managed to successfully complete the project. Steven Kaplan Pr Eng, Pr CPM, CEng, FSAICE Portfolios: Awards, and education and training Steven is the SAICE President-Elect 2022. He is a semi-retired operations manager, project manager and civil engineer. Over the last eight years of his career, Steven has been integrally involved in principle operational activities such as identifying and developing strategic imperatives and plans, developing and enhancing internal organisation processes to ensure efficient operation, overseeing administrative functions, and strategic management in all matters regarding operations. Prior to that his career spanned over 35 years during which he built up extensive experience working on numerous multidisciplinary and infrastructure projects, with a particular focus on the construction and project management fields. One of the highlights in his career was his role as a project man- ager on the prestigious Gautrain Rapid Rail Link (Hatfield Station) in 2006 and 2007. This was a truly inspirational multidisciplinary project, made up of a team of people from different engineering disci- plines and industry professions working jointly towards reaching the goal of an architecturally aesthetic station that also met the stringent functional design parameters, all within the constrained budget. Steven has always enjoyed the challenge of bringing out the creative abilities within each team member while coordinating everyone towards the common goal of delivering a worthy project to the client. Innocentia Mahlangu Pr Eng, PMP, AgilePM, FSAICE Portfolio: Young members Innocentia is a senior civil engineer and project manager within Hatch’s Project Delivery Group. Innocentia is an award-winning and internationally recognised professional project manager. She is experienced in the design and execution of railway infrastructure projects, having held positions such as design engineer, resident engineer as well as roles in project and construction management. In her current role at Hatch, she is a specialist project manager, overseeing projects in the mining, metals and infrastructure sectors as part of the project delivery group. Innocentia is the current chair of SAICE’s Diversity & Inclusivity Panel as well as the Education and Training Committee. Additionally, she is the founder of a non- profit organisation for women in engineering, SHEngineers. One of the highlights in Innocentia’s career was being named one of 50 Young Global Leaders of the Future by the Project Management Institute. In the field of project management and construction, she enjoys the variability of the work, where she can work on multi- disciplinary projects with multidisciplinary teams. Nontobeko Mathenjwa Portfolio: Young members Nontobeko is an MPhil candidate in the field of engineering management and a certified NLP practitioner. She is a project manager at SANRAL and has been under their employ for nine years. During this time, she has acquired solid experience in construction engineering and manage- ment of road infrastructure projects, and is currently managing one of SANRAL’s flagship projects, the Moloto Road Upgrade (Mpumalanga section). Nontobeko serves as a member of the PIARC (World Road Association) Technical Committee: Planning Road Infrastructure Economic and Social Development. As one of her passion projects, she serves as an executive lead for an NPC called WiMBIZ (Women in mining in business). One of the highlights of her career is being entrusted with the responsibility of managing a flagship project. As a “visionary” she enjoys being part of a team that turns a vision into a tangible product. Ashwin Mohanlal Pr Eng, PMP Portfolio: Young members Ashwin is the Vice President: Project Governance at Anglo Gold Ashanti. He has over 20 years of experience in the engi- neering and project management discipline working on multi-disciplinary projects in South Africa, Africa, Australia, North America and South America. His experi- ence covers project development, project management, project governance, capital management and engineering management ranging from conceptual studies to project execution and closure. In his current role, Ashwin is accountable for designing and maintaining the company’s Capital Investment Framework, which sets the standards on how the company develops, governs and executes its projects. Ashwin was privileged to work on a greenfields project in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, which was in an undisturbed rainforest area inhabited by local pygmy tribes. He enjoys interacting with project teams across the world and getting to learn about their cultures and best practices for project management.