Civil Engineering September 2022 | Vol 30 No 8

Civil Engineering September 2022 65 Course Name Course Dates Location CPD Accreditation No Course Presenter Contact Getting Acquainted with General Conditions of Contract for Construction Works (GCC 2015) 8–9 September 2022 Online CESA-2075-08/2025 Credits: 2 ECSA Theuns Eloff Register: store.saice.org.za/ training-courses lizelle@saicepdp.org Getting Acquainted with Road Construction and Maintenance 17–18 November 2022 Online CESA-2064-06/2025 Credits: 2 ECSA Theuns Eloff Getting Acquainted with Sewer Design 15–16 September 2022 Online CESA-2065-06/2025 Credits: 2 ECSA Andrew Brodie Getting Acquainted with Water Resource Management 28–29 November 2022 Midrand SAICEwat21/02986/24 Credits: 2 ECSA SAICEEL20/02755/23 (Online) Stephen Mallory Pressure Pipeline and Pump Station Design and Specification – A‑ Practical Overview 4 & 6 October 2022 Online CESA-2066-06/2025 Credits: 2 ECSA Dup van Renen Road to Registration for Candidate Engineers, Technologists and Technicians 8 September 2022 Online CESA-2067-05/2025 Credits: 1 ECSA Allyson Lawless Stewart Gibson Phathi Masimirembwa 22 November 2022 Online Road to Registration for Mature Engineers, Technologists and Technicians 24 August 2022 Online CESA-1641-10/2022 Credits: 1 ECSA Stewart Gibson Phathi Masimirembwa 20 October 2022 Online Road to Registration for Mentors, Supervisors and HR Practitioners 18 October 2022 Online CESA-1580-04/2022 Credits: 1 ECSA Allyson Lawless The direct route to registration as a Construction Project Manager or Construction Manager 29 August 2022 Online CESA-2052-12/2024 Jeffrey Pipe 14 November 2022 Online Understanding the 6 Stages of the Project Life Cycle to register as a Construction Project Manager or Construction Manager 22–23 September 2022 Online CESA-2084-06/2025 Credits: 2 ECSA Jeffrey Pipe In-house courses are available. To arrange, please contact: Cheryl-Lee Williams (cheryl -lee@saice.org.za) on 011 805 5947. For SAICE-hosted Candidate Academy in-house courses, please contact: Lizélle du Preez (lizelle@saicepdp.org) on 011 476 4100 or 072 356 5230. Register online: www.saice.org.za  | All dates are subject to change SAICE-PDP / Candidate Academy 2022 S AICE recently hosted a webinar in which SAICE members John Samuel (Pr Eng, Pr CPM, CEng) and Wynand Dreyer (Pr Eng) discussed the essential aspects of public-private partnerships (PPPs). “A PPP is not just focused on infrastructure development; it’s about the development and operations in an integrated manner. So we’re taking people out of their comfort zone of relying on FIDIC, NEC, JBCC, or any of those types of contracts. And we’re now presenting a different integrated approach for the development and management not just providing infrastructure, but in providing ‘availability’ of a functioning asset for a user to carry out their core focus – such as enjoying the experience of a well- constructed, consistently maintained road,” said Samuel. Dreyer walked the audience through the three pillars of a PPP, which are value for money, affordability, and risk sharing. “The government has to show value for money, otherwise the PPP doesn't work. At the same time, it's got to be affordable, so whoever is procuring and needs that service has to be in a position to pay for it, either through a unitary fee or equally to users of toll roads, users of services, such as water supply, etc. You should really only enter into a PPP contract where you can demonstrate value for money and affordability.” Samuel added that the risk is shared between the public and private sector during the partnership by the party best able to manage the risk. “Not all risk is on the shoulders of the private sector, even though operationally and financially, the private sector takes much more accountability.” Dreyer noted that Government must push forward the PPP process, but the private sector needs to understand how to apply National Treasury’s PPP manual so that it can be effectively involved. The pair also took the audience through the steps to set up a PPP, namely inception, feasibility, procurement, development (design and construction), delivery (operations and maintenance), and expiry (potential reletting of the PPP contract). They highlighted the most im- portant aspects of this process as well as timelines, and how such a process proved valuable to public and investors. SAICE ACADEMY COURSES Samuel and Dreyer will run a series of two courses in collaboration with the SAICE Academy. The courses are split into two parts, with each part consisting of six online sessions and accredited for 1 CPD point. Part 1 will focus on what it takes to put a PPP together, while Part 2 will focus on the roles of engineers and other built environment professionals in a PPP.  Public-private partnerships for engineers by engineers