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WorleyParsons consolidates EPCM offering in new HQ

WorleyParsons CEO Digby Glover discusses the group's new, purpose-built South African headquarters in Melrose Arch. Recorded: 03.09.2014. Camerawork: Nicholas Boyd. Videoediting: Shane Williams.

3rd September 2014

By: Natalie Greve

Creamer Media Contributing Editor Online

  

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Establishing it as one of the largest engineering contractors in the country, engineering, procurement, construction and management (EPCM) group WorleyParsons has moved into its new, purpose-built South African headquarters in Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, consolidating its local project delivery capabilities under one roof.

CEO Digby Glover told Engineering News Online on Wednesday that the new office would enable greater synergies between the company’s public infrastructure and resource infrastructure divisions.

The group’s resource infrastructure division offered services related to the early works phase of projects – such as social and environmental requirements, roads, rail, water treatment works and camp establishment – which were necessary to develop new resource projects.

Its public infrastructure arm, meanwhile, was geared to execute smaller portfolios of projects for local governmental and municipal customers.

“Last year, we recognised that the public infrastructure side of the business – the traditional South African consulting operation – required a different execution model to large project delivery and that it had to consolidate to allow us to improve our offering. This led to a restructuring of our infrastructure business into the two primary business units.

“The resource infrastructure arm is a significant part of our future business, because this is what makes a project viable. By combining the technical capability in Johannesburg with our knowledge of the finer elements of African execution, we believe we will differentiate ourselves in the market,” he outlined.

The group, which offered services into sub-Saharan Africa in the mining, hydrocarbons, power and infrastructure sectors, had grown rapidly in South Africa since the acquisition of a 50% shareholding in engineering house Pangaea in 2008.

In 2011, it bought the remaining 50% and, in the same year, acquired South African engineering consulting firm Kwezi V3.

The landmark 2013 acquisition of EPCM service provider TWP Holdings boosted its personnel complement to some 2 000 people – the bulk of whom would now work out of the newly established Johannesburg office – and added a significant depth of capability in the minerals and metals sector.

PROJECT FOCUS
With existing operational centres in Ghana, Nigeria, Angola, Namibia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya, as well as project offices in other parts of the continent, Glover said the company would now focus on opportunities in East, West and Central Africa.

He noted that the company was currently involved in “numerous” renewable energy construction projects in Africa, including photovoltaic, concentrated solar and wind.

“We have also successfully completed a wind farm project in South Africa, where our role included the design and owner’s engineer portion during construction.

“In addition, the company provides ongoing support to a major African energy utility in the preparation for and execution of maintenance outages at power plants,” he commented.

In the hydrocarbons sector, the firm was currently working as part of an integrated project management team that executed “major”capital projects.

It was also completing various pipeline studies, EPCM and project management consultant roles for pipelines projects in Southern and East Africa.

Meanwhile, within the minerals and metals sector, WorleyParsons was also involved in a range of iron-ore, coal, precious metals, base metals, alumina and phosphates projects across sub-Saharan Africa.

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor Online

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