Company Announcement - The ability to work across a range of industries on projects that require a diverse set of skills has ensured the sustainability of Murray & Roberts Infrastructure. The company continues to receive a wide variety of project awards in the roadworks and civils arena, a testament to its ability to carry out logistically complex infrastructure projects. According to Eric Wisse, managing director of Murray & Roberts Infrastructure, recent awards for the roadworks teams include a 28 month contract to rehabilitate a section of the R61 in the Eastern Cape region between Bizana and Port Edward (the Magusheni/Mzamba area), led by contracts director Jay Juganan.
Leveraging its long track record of successfully completed road projects in the Eastern Cape, Murray & Roberts Infrastructure is working on the upgrading of a 27.5 km portion of National Road R72 Section 3 between Port Alfred and the Fish River for SANRAL Ltd. The project is due for completion in late August 2018 and includes the widening of the Rietrivier Bridge at km 13.2 of the project. Following on the successful completion of two back-to-back contracts on the N1 outside Hammanskraal for Bakwena Platinum Corridor Concessionaire, the company has secured rehabilitation work for the Northern Toll Roads Venture on the same national roadway between Bela Bela and Polokwane. This work will be done in Joint Venture with Grinaker-LTA and will be the final rehabilitation work for this concession.
Work on the Murray & Roberts Infrastructure N4 project is progressing according to schedule on the section of this major national route near Middelburg, just east of the Rockdale interchange, and ending just west of the Arnot interchange. It involves increasing the carrying capacity of an 18 km section of the toll road by constructing a new double-lane eastbound carriageway, with associated civils infrastructure such as a bridge overpass at the Klein Olifants River and various other structures. Site establishment on the iconic Grayston Road Pedestrian Bridge for the Johannesburg Development Agency has begun. This bridge will link Alexandra township with the business hub of Sandton.
Based on its capabilities within the water and waste water sectors, the company has secured the Orange Farm 33 million litre reservoir contract. Contracts director, Lucas Baars says this award follows on the successful completion of the 20 ML water reservoir and 1.2 ML water tower in Lanseria for Joburg Water. Work is ongoing on a number of wind farm contracts for Mainstream. The first bases for Noupoort’s 35 wind turbine generator wind farm have been poured and site establishment has begun for the Loeriesfontein and Khobab wind farm contract. Each of these wind farms will have 61 wind turbine generator foundations, with a combined construction period of 30 months.
The company has also been awarded the contract for the design and construction of the civil balance of plant for the De Aar 1 Maanhaarberg Wind Farm for Longyuan Engineering South Africa (Pty) Ltd. When completed, this wind farm will contribute 100 MW into the national grid utilising 66 wind turbines A hallmark of Murray & Roberts Infrastructure is its specialist capability when it comes to technical sliding expertise. The company has been contracted by Murray & Roberts Cementation to do an underground sliding job on the Cullinan Mine Project. According to contracts director Joe Rader, the contract includes the construction of two 40 metre high underground silos and one underground water tank.