Recent successes for multidisciplinary consulting engineering and project management, as well as construction and operations management company Bosch Holdings include the Mhlabatshane bulk water supply scheme in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) that will provide 100 000 people with potable water and the Mvoti river pipe bridge crossing project, also in KZN.

The company is currently designing a sugar and ethanol estate in Angola, while

other significant projects include a water and wastewater plant in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, and the implementation of a national waste-collection training programme throughout South Africa.

“The company, which has expanded significantly over 52 years, now has offices throughout South Africa, Africa and inter-nationally, and has completed projects in more than 35 countries. “Over the last five years, Bosch Holdings has mobilised engineering, construction and commissioning teams in countries that include Swaziland, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Malawi, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Egypt and Brazil, with a new East African regional head-quarters currently being set up in Nairobi.

“Since 2002, the group’s turnover has increased tenfold. Growth has been driven by enhanced marketing of specialist services, good corporate governance, as well as effective planning and use of resources,” says Bosch Holdings CEO Mike Gibbon.

Bosch Holdings has also expanded its operations in Gauteng, with a recent move to new offices in Bryanston, Johannesburg.

“The consolidation of Gauteng operations enables Bosch Holdings to improve its service to a diverse customer base with an expanded and experienced team of specialists, permanently based in the Gauteng region,” says Gibbon, adding that the company plans to focus on growing its Gauteng client base while continuing to support its strategic growth initiatives both nationally and internationally.

This expansion programme follows in the wake of the company’s 2010 rebrand initiative, which involved the consolidation of different specialist companies to form a single, unified brand, notes Gibbon.

Member of the Bosch Holdings group and specialist operations and maintenance service company to the municipal engineering sector Bosch Munitech’s current initiatives include an increased focus on assisting municipalities to overcome service delivery backlogs in the water, wastewater and solid-waste manage-ment sectors.

A key element of this is the integration of technical solutions, knowledge transfer, skills development and institutional capacity building to enable municipalities to develop sustainable services for their communities.

The Bosch agriculture team continues to provide pioneering irrigation solutions throughout Africa. Important projects in Tanzania include the Mtibwa agriculture expansion project and the Kagera rehabilitation project, which earned Bosch Projects the South African Institution of Civil Engineering Durban branch and national award for the most outstanding civil engineering achievement in the technical excellence category.

Another key development was the estab-lishment of Bosch Ulwazi, which provides transformation solutions in enterprise, socio-economic and skills development. Through Bosch Ulwazi’s enterprise develop- ment programme, the group strives to develop black-owned businesses that operate in the engineering sector.

Bosch Holdings, which is committed to the principles of broad-based black economic empowerment, is certified as a level three contributor. All the company’s project and business activities adhere to international ISO 9001: 2008 quality standards.