An expanding WEC Projects is right behind SA and the World Cup.
World Cup Soccer fever has hit WEC Projects and everyone is infected.
The excitement of the opening goal against Mexico,
the misery of the defeat at the hands of Uruguay
and eventually the triumph against the French kept tongues
wagging all through June!
Andre Visser has joined the ranks at WEC Projects.
Andre Visser grew up in Cape Town and completed a civil engineering degree at the University of Stellenbosch
with a Department of Water Affairs bursary in 1973. He worked for Water Affairs in Cape Town and Windhoek and
spent two and a half years at the Jonkershoek Tunnels GWS. Together with tunnelling activities, Andre was
responsible for water supply and sewage disposal for the construction township. After the first exposure
to a package sewage treatment plant supplied by Satech Hudamech, he was compelled to enrol for a master's degree
in water care at Stellenbosch. Still with Water Affairs, Andre spent two and a half years in the water treatment
design division in Pretoria and another two and a half years as operations engineer at the Vaal Gamagara GWS which
extracted water from the Vaal river, purified it and supplied potable water via a number of pump stations and a 350 km
pipeline to Postmasburg, Sishen, Hotazel and as far as Black Rock.
Andre joined Lyttelton Engineering Works for six years as programme manager.
He then joined Wates and Wagner (which evolved to the present Golder) as design engineer,
mainly involved in water and sewage reticulation, pump stations and sewage treatment plants.
He started a small consulting practice in 1990 that merged with Wagner Nel, which evolved into the present Sintec.
This merger provided the base to get involved in the design of the first big sewage treatment plant which involved two 35 Ml/d
module extensions for Olifantsfontein WCW and the rehabilitation of the existing 30 Ml/d module. After this followed one
35 Ml/d extension at Sebokeng, the 35 Ml/d Welgedacht WCW greenfield development, another 35 Ml/d module for Sebokeng,
a 50 Ml/d module for Waterval (with BCP/Palace JV) and currently a 50 Ml/d extension for Welgedacht WCW (with SSI/Palace JV)
with a few small ones in between.
Andre is happily married to Margaretha (34 years) and has two children who are both married.
Andre is about to become grandfather early in 2011. Although he has lived in Centurion for 30 years,
his blue blood has distinctive white stripes. "When I'm not working, mowing the lawn or trapped on terra firma
by some other ridiculous activity, you will find me cruising the skies strapped onto a powered
paragliding kit - it does not get much better"
It is our pleasure to welcome Andre on board!
300m3/hr Potable Water Treatment plant for Chongwe Village near Lusaka, Zambia is dispatched to site.
WEC Projects is finalising the installation of a 300m3/hr potable water treatment plant for Chongwe town near Lusaka,
Zambia. The plant has been designed and built by WEC Projects and includes lamella clarifiers and mild steel
horizontal sand filters. It will purify water extracted from the Chongwe river and supply the town with potable water.
The plant was dispatched to site late June and required seven super link trucks each with a loading area of 2,4m
wide by 18m long and each with a payload capacity of 35 metric Tonnes to transport the plant through two lots of
borders via Zimbabwe to Zambia.
The trucks took a total of ten days to reach Zambia.
Mike Slogrove, the project manager responsible was interviewed by ZTV.
The interview was aired on Zambia's national afternoon and evening news.
Site was also visited by a delegation from the Zambian Presidents office.
WEC Projects is now proudly a patron member of WISA - The Water Institute of Southern Africa!
WEC PROJECTS BREAKING NEW GROUND WITH SUBMERGED MEMBRANE TECHNOLOGY
WEC Projects has successfully completed the installation and handover of their high tech Submerged Membrane Bio-Reactor
plant for Aspen Pharmaceuticals in Midrand. We have successfully secured another order for a submerged membrane bioreactor for the
treatment of waste water. The plant will be installed in Zimbabwe in the next month.
(See article - Download here)
Packaged Plant Delivered
