The document summarizes a project by Royal HaskoningDHV to construct 6 new schools in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa as part of an accelerated school infrastructure initiative. Royal HaskoningDHV was contracted by the Development Bank of Southern Africa to provide project management, construction management, and other services. They established an on-site project office to facilitate collaboration between the integrated project team and local contractors. The project faced challenges due to its remote location and urgency, but all six schools were successfully completed and handed over to the client by the September 2013 deadline.

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DEVELOPMENT BANK SOUTHERN AFRICA, EC 6 SCHOOLS, ASIDI SCHOOLS BUILDING PROGRAMME
Project: DBSA, EC 6 Schools project
Client: Development Bank Southern Africa
(DBSA)
Contact: Mr Chuene Ramphele
Tel: 011 313 3794
Project value: R 88 million
(Fee Value- R5 miilion)
Start date: 12 January 2012
End date: 06 September 2013
SERVICES PROVIDED:
 Royal HaskoningDHV provided the following services to the contractor:
o Project Management
o Construction Management
o Construction Mentorship
o Quantity Surveying
o Logistics and Planning
o Key stakeholder management
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Royal HaskoningDHV through the SPV (SSI Mafuri JV) won the tender
for the construction of 6 New Schools in the Eastern Cape Province as
part of the Accelerated Schools Infrastructure Delivery Initiative (ASIDI)
Programme.
Part of the tender requirements was for the Contractor to make use of
Reconstruction and Development Principles of: Use of black emerging
contractors in the construction, local economic development and
community participation.
Royal HaskoningDHV co located the team in a site office based at Port
St Johns. The objective of co locating the team was to obtain the benefit
of an integrative team approach. The team also included a logistics and
planning manager to mitigate the procurement risks associated with
remote construction sites.
The project involved a high degree of stakeholder engagement,
particularly on the supply of goods and commodities as material was not
readily available in the project area of work and had to be sourced and
delivered from outside the region
The project management approach was tailored for the
management contracting strategy where Royal
HaskoningDHV managed and coordinated the work of local
builders that constructed the actual building works, specialists
for the electrical, landscaping and roofing work packages. The
project management approach was very agile, and change
and issue logs were issued to deal with management of the
project constraints.
The project was very difficult and challenging due to the
urgency of delivering the schools to eradicate the backlog of
dire public school infrastructure to replace the mud schools
that had been in existence for many years in the province.
All six schools were completed and successfully handed over
to the Client.
CONTACT DETAILS:
Denzel Maduray 011 798 6000 denzel.maduray@rhdhv.com