LTE is experienced in delivering whole solutions for airport projects, often in Joint Ventures with Multinational Companies. We are known for producing
innovative airfield designs that deliver long term performance and safety at a reasonable cost.

Our solutions often combine a minimised and highly targeted airside engineering programme with a rigorous monitoring regime to ensure consistent perfor-mance over time. This streamlined approach ensures solutions are never over-engineered, keeping materials use and capital cost to a minimum.

LTE Engineering provides Project Management and Construction Supervision services for all engineering and related projects. The Company has provided project management services to the Gauteng and Free State Provincial Governments, as well as the Sekhukhune District Municipality with regard to the prestigious Consolidated Municipal Infrastructure Programme (CMIP) (now MIG) which focuses on the provision of infrastructure services for previously disadvantaged communities.

– Project planning and development
– Programme and project direction
– Project scope, cost and time management
– Development and management of project budgets, cost and forecasting
– Quality and risk management
– Hazard and risk assessment
– Value and risk management
– Economic appraisals and feasibility studies
– Asset and facilities management
– Public Private Partnership
– Change Management
– Specialist Programming

The company boasts extensive resources and has experience in all disciplines within the civil engineering environment for Bulk and Link services. LTE Engineering covers the following areas:

– Roads & Stormwater
– Bridges
– Industrial, Commercial and Residential Buildings
– Pavement Engineering & Materials
– Water Reticulation
– Sanitation

It is crucial that all quantities and costs related to any project undertaken be monitored and controlled by the relevant professionals in order to ensure timeous and within-budget end-products. This is unconditional, and as such LTE Engineering has in its employ, as well as association with, qualified quantity surveyors. Accurate and meaningful Bill of Quantities, Schedules and the Associated Costing is paramount before implementation.

LTE Engineering recognizes that any given project demands a fundamental understanding and competence in various areas of professional involvement. The firm therefore uses the most appropriate skills within its professional team for each project awarded.

Electrical and Mechanical services that LTE Consulting provides, includes planning, analysing, designing, optimising, system integration, test and evaluation, procurement and construction management in engineering, installation and commissioning. These services range from small projects within established environments to large turnkey capital projects.

– Generation, Transmission & Distribution
– Power System Studies
– Railway AC / DC Traction Electrification Infrastructure
– Standby & UPS Power Systems
– Township Reticulation
– Plant Automation & Control
– Electrical & Electronic Industrial Services

LTE Engineering offers Facilities and Property Asset Management consulting services to a wide spectrum of industries encompassing the public and private sectors. These include the energy and water utilities, mining and manufacturing, telecommunications, and the property sector. The company can assist clients to achieve the following:

– Establish/Review the Clients Asset base via the Asset Register
– Ensure effective utilization and management of an organisation’s facilities and operating assets.
– Gain greatest lifetime utilisation and effectiveness from production and operating equipment assets
– Optimise and standardise maintenance processes and practices throughout the organisation.
– Ensure effective control of the quality maintenance work that is outsourced to third-party organisations
– Ensure that ail facilities and operating equipment assets continue to contribute to the organisation’s bottom line.

GIS solutions is one of the core divisions of LTE Engineering. This includes data acquisition, capturing, modeling and analysis, and the dissemination of spatial data and information.

In addition to GIS solutions being a core function of the company, clients have the benefit of having their projects presented spatially with great detail and accuracy, all within a visually appealing and succinct manner. This is achieved by constantly keeping in touch, with new or improved methods for spatially analysing and presenting information.

Health And Safety / Environmental Management

All development projects undertaken by LTE involve qualified Health and Safety and Environmental Specialists. In addition LTE provides specialist services in these two critical fields. Our Project Team has completed, amongst others, the following projects:

– Hammanskraal Housing Development
– West Rand Housing Initiative
– Vlakfontein Housing Project
– Environmental Management Plans for the extension and upgrading of Michelle Avenue through the Klipriviersberg Nature Area, Alberton.
– Environmental Management Plan for a wetland in Laezonia.
– Environmental Management Plan for construction of Meyersdal Ext23 and Ext25 in the Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve
– Environmental Implementation Plan for rehabilitation purposes in the Magaliesberg Protected Natural Environment (Commissiedrift) .
– Proposed development of the Albertsdal Township, Alberton
– Proposed development of a Microwave Telecommunication structure on the CSIR Hill, Pretoria.

LTE has a dedicated team of ICT professionals involved in an internal and external range of services. These services include:

– Software development
– Database design and development
– System application development
– Data analysis solutions
– Web-based solutions
– Networking solutions
– Wireless-System hardware supply and maintenance

LTE has partnered with CSIR and a Danish Consortium to set up an extremely cost effective and high strength concrete solution to building in South Africa. The process was launched at the recent COP 17 gathering in Durban where it was lauded by professionals from around the Globe.

– Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning Commercial & Industrial Refrigeration
– Fire Detection and Protection Dust and Fume Extraction
– Materials Handling
– Lifts, Hoists & Escalators
– Plumbing and Drainage

Within the mining sector, the Company offers world-class engineering, water and wastewater treatment solutions, comprehensive after-market and client support services and considerable skills and competencies tailored to local conditions.

LTE has undertaken projects for junior miners and mining giants in South Africa and further afield in Africa. We have worked with multiple reserve resources, from coal to manganese, iron ore, gold and bauxite.

Our key personnel are well-versed in mining technologies and the sensitivities surrounding mining developments.

We have established good working relationships with electrical and mechanical consultants in South Africa and through this we can offer our clients an integrated mine infrastructure planning and design solution service, which includes specialist items such as material handling and processing plants, conveyor design and fuel installations

Key Personnel in Mining

John le Roux Director – BSC (Mining)

As a Director with a degree in mining engineering (BSc) and a strong managerial background, John has a proven track record of successfully delivering full lifecycle contracts within compressed timeframes and within budget. He has extensive local and international, cross-sector contracting experience which is invaluable in risk mitigation, implementation and execution of complex projects. Coupled with this John has a strong strategic appreciation and understanding of a client’s business needs.

Prof. Ronny Webber-Youngman PhD (Mech), Pr.Eng (Mining), M.Eng (Mining), B.Eng (Mining), SOMP

Ronny is a specialist engineering consultant within the mining industry. He has 30+ years’ of experience in mining, mine production, mining related education and project management. Ronny joined the University of Pretoria as a senior lecturer in the Department of Mining Engineering, responsible for all mine environmental engineering related subjects, dissertation projects and mine design in 1997. He subsequently obtained his master’s degree in mining engineering and completed his PhD in mechanical engineering, specialising in the energy optimisation of ventilation, cooling and pumping requirements for hot mines. He was appointed head of the Department of Mining Engineering in 2007. Ronny is a registered professional engineer with ECSA (Pr.Eng) and a fellow of the Association of Mine Ventilation of South Africa. He also serves on the International Society of Mining Professors (SOMP) as an executive member for Africa and was recently appointed as the President Elect for the 2013-2014 term of SOMP. Ronny is also a member of the Professional Advisory Committee for Mining for ECSA.

Dr. Stavros Albanis Senior Engineer, Structures and Hydraulics – Pr. Eng, Prof Eng (Greece)

Gerhard du Preez PLS B.Land Survey

Gerhard draws on over 15 years’ of experience in the cadastral, topographical, engineering and surface mining survey industry. Since 2007 he became heavily involved in optic fibre solutions, particularly as the widespread install of fibre infrastructure across South Africa advanced to connect the country to major submarine cables. Through a professional relationship between Gerhard’s company, Simply Survey, Nurizon and LTE our teams can offer an integrated project service delivery for fibre network routing and infrastructure design, site layout, as-built drawings and the collection of field data through the use of cutting-edge survey equipment technologies.

Kevin Dearden Senior Engineer, Airports and Geometrics – M.Eng (Hons) (Civil)

A senior engineer within the airports division at Nurizon, Kevin has specialised within the airport engineering and aviation sectors since graduating from Nottingham University (UK) in 2003 with a master’s degree in civil engineering. His planning, design and project management experience includes a mixture of large scale airport engineering projects in the UK and more recently, South Africa and the wider African environment. Kevin was the airfield design team leader on the London Heathrow Terminal 2A project (scheme design) and a design engineer on Heathrow Terminal 5C. He was also involved in the upgrade of Waterkloof Air Force Base and World Cup projects at OR Tambo International Airport

LTE Engineering is active the fields of township infrastructure and other municipal related initiatives. The company has experience in the design and implementation of projects using labour-based construction methods. In conjunction with broader Civil Engineering, the provision of services to existing and new townships includes the planning, design and construction management of:

– Roads
– Stormwater
– Water and Sewer Reticulation Systems
– Pumping Stations and Rising Mains for both Sewage and Potable Water
– Storage Reservoirs

LTE has established a Financial Division (LTE
Capital) that focuses on the finances of large scale
projects before, during and after planning and
implementation. Traditional methods have proved
wanting and LTE has developed a unique method of
project financing that encompasses every aspect of the project.

Members of the company are intricately involved in various strategic initiatives such as Integrated Development Plans, Development Frameworks, Impact Assessments, Evaluation of Development Applications and Spatial Planning initiatives. The Department coordinates the following functions:

– Base Plan Determination (Land Surveyor)
– Conveyancer Certificate (Conveyancer)
– Outline Scheme report (Civil Engineers)
– Traffic Impact Assessment (Traffic Engineer)
– Electrical Report (Electrical Engineer)
– Geotechnical Report (Geotechnical Engineer)
– EIA Scoping Report (Environmentalist)
– Township Establishment
– Application and Layout Plan
– Additional studies/Professionals
– Submission and Circulation
– Registration Phase
– Approval of Development

LTE Engineering provides a wide range of services in the area of Traffic & Transportation Engineering. Our client base ranges from private developers requiring low key transport studies to being involved in the Development of the National Freight Demand Model for Transnet from 2006 to 2036. Our services include:

– Transportation Planning and Modelling
– Traffic Engineering
– Traffic Surveys and Analysis
– Public Transport Planning and Operations
– Freight Transport Planning
– Transport Infrastructure and Corridor Feasibility Analysis
– Financial Feasibility and Viability Studies
– Community Liaison, Participation and Consultation
– Traffic

The LTE Group of Companies of which LTE HealthCare is part of, provides professional services in the Built Environment Sector, specializing in Civil Engineering, Project Management, Architecture, Quantity Surveying, Property Management, Electrical & Mechanical Engineering, Property Asset Management as well as Town and Regional Planning. This enables LTE HealthCare to offer Clients end-to-end solutions in the development and management of health care facilities.

LTE HealthCare provides a full turnkey service for hospital or day clinic facilities – from demographic studies, initial needs analysis, land identification, design, engineering professional services to license application. Once approved, a comprehensive doctor participation evaluation gets done in order to present a more realistic viability and feasibility reports.

The equipping and commissioning of the medical business inside the building remains an expert field. LTE HealthCare as an associated entity to LTE Group has access to resources from within the Group that enable it to provide a project coordinator or manager to oversee this process, as well as to ensure that all is aligned with the infrastructure of the building and that it remains within the project timelines and budget.

Operational Management of Healthcare Facilities LTE HealthCare provides full management service to hospitals and clinics. It is available to new or existing facilities and include:

• Billing and Claims system
• Managing Daily Operations
• Specialist Relationship Management
• Medical scheme support services
• Improve Business Efficiencies & Optimization

In conjunction with LTE Capital, LTE HealthCare can assist with the design of an investment proposition for the doctors and other investors. We believe that there should be no differentiation in share type and that shares should be made available in both the property and business entities – all within the ambit of regulatory guidelines. There must be full disclosure and transparency on costs, service providers and their quality of service. There are far too many investors who want to venture in the healthcare market who either do not understand the market or who just want to make a quick profit. In collaboration with leading financial institutions and with SpesNet, we always aim to provide our clients with a detailed market overview and objective project-specific report.