Gibb Sets The Scene For Sustainability At The 7th Annual Construction Conference
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Company Announcement - The 7th Annual Construction Risk Management Conference being held at the Radisson Blu Sandton on 19 and 20 August 2015, sees Dr Urishanie Govender, General Manager and Director of Environmental Management at GIBB, South Africa’s leading black-owned engineering firm, present on GIBB’s Sustainability Approach in South Africa and across Africa.
cc’s ASPIRE Approach seeks to Acknowledge, work Smart, Participate, Integrate, Respond and Evaluate large scale infrastructure project impacts in a systematic and comprehensive manner. Dr Govender will be demonstrating the application of the ASPIRE model to three of GIBB’s projects viz. MOZISA energy project; Cities resilience study and Sustainable management of social impacts relating to Dams. The Dams project addressed involuntary resettlement at early stages of infrastructure development as well as post resettlement scenarios upon completion of a project. The ASPIRE approach enables GIBB to deliver of projects that take cognisance of economic, social and environmental benefits and provides for high integrity engineering design.
“It is clear that in order to ensure sustainability principles are applied to large infrastructure projects, expertise and experience is required in the project teams. GIBB has the tools to facilitate these conversations and experienced team members that can add value, through developing and tracking project sustainability reports.Integrating sustainability principles into our infrastructure and other projects will certainly leave a lasting legacy”, says Dr Govender.
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