

HEALTHCARE

MINERALS & ENERGY

MARINE & SHIPPING

RAILWAY & HYDROCARBONS

CAPITAL & INFRASTRUCTURE

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

ENGINEERING
Project Management
LTE Consulting provides project management on a wide variety of engineering projects. LTE has managed various projects all over South Africa. The Project Management Division is continuously making a meaningful impact particularly in the public sector.
The future of the Project Management Division is exciting. It also represents new training and deployment opportunities for staff – registration with the SACPCMP will be strongly encouraged as it provides the Company a competitive tool in the marketplace.
Civil and Structural
Boasts extensive resources and has experience in all disciplines within the civil engineering environment for Bulk and Link services.
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Housing
The Housing Department specialises in providing professional engineering services to the build environment. These services are critical in any housing development to ensure that the end product is of the highest quality. The housing department provides services of Project Management to ensure that contractors use the correct building materials and follow the architectural plans correctly as shown on the Council approved drawings. The Interrogation of the quality and integrity of the building is done to provide Clients with assurance that the infrastructure under development is of the envisaged standard. Services falling within Project Management include:
- Site inspection
- Construction Monitoring
- Material Management
- Health, Safety & Environmental Management
- Certification of Milestones on Different Categories
- Community Liaison
- Beneficiary Stand Verification
- Liaising with Various Stakeholders
- Coordination of Site Meetings
- Roads & Stormwater
Roads play a vital role in the daily lives of people by improving access to commodities and encouraging trade between communities.
The transportation of goods by road based transportation facilities is a quick and efficient way of ensuring the goods arrive at the intended destination at the required time. LTE Consulting is proud to be staffed with a qualified and highly experienced technical team in the Roads and Stormwater Division. The technical team boasts vast experience on the design and implementation of major roads, as well as secondary streets. Road experience gained by LTE Consulting over the past few years includes the construction of gravel roads and the upgrading of roads in residential areas. - Structures
LTE's Structures Business Unit boasts extensive resources and experience within most disciplines of the civil engineering environment. The Structures Business Unit specializes in Industrial, Commercial and Residential Buildings. We offer professional services for the design, drafting and construction supervision of bridges, reservoirs, waste water treatment plants, stadia and a wide assortment of other concrete or steel structures.
We pride ourselves on our combined expertise and experience gained over many years, and utilize these resources to deliver on any project requirements. Our approach to satisfying the requirements of our Clients is implemented through the provision of quality resources, and the assigning of adequate capacity to each project. This combination of professionals, together with the support of other technical staff guarantees successful implementation of any project.

HEALTHCARE
Our LTE HealthCare consultancy assists with evaluating the healthcare market, legal implications, local doctors and on financial issues relating to the healthcare sector. Our Healthcare consultancy is broken down in the follow departments:
Provision of Healthcare Technology
One of the major ways businesses improve efficiencies, decrease administration costs and allow for more streamlines interaction is IT. Technology (both medical and IT ) should be embraced and used effectively and appropriately.
Civil Engineering
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.
Healthcare facility development
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.
Project Management
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
Structuring of Funding Deals
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.
- Affiliation and membership

MINERALS & ENERGY
LTE Energy provides unique and world-class alternative energy solutions today for a sustainable tomorrow through consulting and project development services to both public and private sectors.
Services include:
Project financing, complex financial modeling, technical designs, implementation, construction and operations maintenance of the installation of renewable energy or energy efficiency projects within solar, fossil, wind, biogas, biomass.
Mining
LTE Holdings has a mining division that was established in 2014 to seek opportunities within the mining sector in South Africa and broader African continent. The primary focus of the division is to bring to market quality minerals at competitive prices and provide our clients with innovative solutions across the full mining value chain.
Within the mining sector, we offer these sub-services;
- Materials handling systems and equipment
- Solid/liquid separation equipment
- Comprehensive mining after-market and client support services
- Bulk materials processing and grading
Our processing expertise covers platinum group metals, base metals (nickel, copper, cobalt and zinc), light and ferrous metals, noble metals (including gold), diamonds and semi-precious stones, coal, iron ore, graphite, heavy minerals, rare earths, lead and phosphates.
We are highly experienced in the provision of open cast and underground mining solutions as well as handling of bulk materials. Our environmental protection technologies cover dust control and minimize of noxious gas emissions.

CAPITAL & INFRASTRUCTURE
LTE Capital focuses on assessing the needs and priorities of our customers, which include modeling cost effective financial solutions required to reach your development goals.
We work closely with LTE Engineering in developing innovative ideas and structuring funding agreements based on the affordability of each client. LTE Capital has formed partnerships with local institutions such as the Municipal Infrastructure Grant, DBSA, South African commercial banks and some international institutions in Asia and Dubai to open avenues for funding.
LTE Capital is presently involved in the development of a student housing project at the University of Zululand aimed at the provision of additional accommodation for 1000 students. The institution has for years been experiencing a shortage of student accommodation and appointed LTE Capital to draw up a package that includes infrastructure design and funding for the project.

MARINE & SHIPPING
LTE Marine and Shipping (UMSA) offers a range of services from port agency to complete logistics solutions. We are represented in all South African ports through our own offices and those of reliable sub-agents and we specialize in South African customs formalities and international freight forwarding.
We offer the following services:
- Ships husbandry
- Bunkering
- Supply of stores and provisions to vessels
- Cargo supervision and tally
- Ship repair management i.e. dry-docking
- Continuous liaison with immigration and port authorities
- Customs clearing and forwarding
- Owners protecting agent
- Charters protecting agent
- Delivery of ships spares
- Medi-vac
- Crew change

RAILWAY & HYDROCARBONS
LTE Rail & Hydrocarbons is the newest member of the LTE family and is part of a long-term strategy to diversify the Group’s service offering and to meaningfully contribute to building a better Africa.
The major focus of the company is to provide specialist professional engineering and project management services to the rail, oil and gas sectors. The renewal of rail and other transportation infrastructure and oil and gas infrastructure will be a very important element of this initiative.
Services offered include:
- Project management,
- Design
- Engineering services

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
We deliver ICT services to the South African government, municipalities, private sector and have a footprint in SADC countries through our partners in Botswana, Mozambique, Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Our ICT service offerings include:
Infrastructure Services
Our managed services include optic reporting and monitoring services, 24/7 technical support services, incident management, problem resolution and hands-on, experienced SMEs.
Cloud computing
Cloud computing provides scalable, on demand resources and services. Whether you’re considering a private cloud or moving to a public cloud.
Data Centre Solutions
Our Data Centre flexible approach is based on minimal risk. LTE ICT offers a flexible approach geared to match your specific IT Infrastructure needs.
Virtualisation
LTE ICT offers both server virtualisation and desktop virtualisation solutions to help customers control cost, manage growth and improve services.
Archiving
Our Archiving services are designed to help you easily and efficiently meet your business needs.
Disaster Recovery Solutions
Our Disaster Recovery services help you design, plan, and implement sound actionable disaster recovery solutions that ensure your data is restorable.
Storage
Our storage services are customised for your specific business requirements and optimise your environment for efficiency, cost reduction and risk mitigation.
Backup
We provide backup and recovery services to ensure clients achieve data protection, recoverability and availability in their data management infrastructure.
- Airport Planning & Design
- Aviation
- Project Management
- Civil and Structural
- Cost Engineering & Quantity Surveying
- Electrical Engineering
- Facilities & Property Asset Management
- GIS Solutions
- Health And Safety
- Information & Communication Technology
- Intellectual Property and Innovation
- Mechanical Engineering
- Mining
- Municipal Engineering
- Project Financing
- Town And Regional Planning
- Transportation & Traffic Engineering
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 performance over time. This streamlined approach ensures solutions are never over-engineered, keeping materials use and capital cost to a minimum.
LTE benefits from the broad technical experience of key personnel who have been involved in both South African, African and globally recognised airport projects. Industry-related clients include airport operators, aviation financiers, military and government authorities, as well as consultants and contractors with a local South African presence.
Our airport services portfolio is varied and ranges from airport feasibility and site selection studies, to airside and landside environment planning and design and terminal capacity analysis and design.
Our team uses industry recognised software to create digital terrain models of an airside environment and vehicle tracking software to refine airside layouts and paint marking designs.
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
Our LTE HealthCare consultancy assists with evaluating the healthcare market, legal implications, local doctors and on financial issues relating to the healthcare sector. Our Healthcare consultancy is broken down in the follow departments:
- Provision of Healthcare Technology
- Civil Engineering
- Healthcare facility development
- Project Management
- Structuring of Funding Deals
One of the major ways businesses improve efficiencies, decrease administration costs and allow for more streamlines interaction is IT. Technology (both medical and IT ) should be embraced and used effectively and appropriately.
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.