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Capacity Building , Non-Revenue Water and Customer Care Management for Greater Harare
This project forms part of the Urgent Water Supply and Sanitation Rehabilitation Project Phase 2 . The project is funded through the Zimbabwe Multi-Donor Trust Fund ( Zim Fund ), which is administered by the African Development Bank on behalf of the Government of Zimbabwe and various international donor agencies .
The consortium comprising of lead partner Vitens Evides International ( VEI ), and including Bosch Stemele and SNV Zimbabwe , were appointed by Crown Agents ( UK ) in April 2016 , to provide professional consultancy services required for this project .
The main focus of the project is to develop programmes to enable the City of Harare to operate and maintain a non-revenue water reduction ( NRW ) programme , to improve operation of the water treatment works and to provide the necessary institutional capacity development to ensure the ongoing successful implementation of these programmes .
VEI have provided management and technical assistance for the development of the Non-Revenue Management Programme and Institutional Capacity Development for the Harare Water Department ( HWD ). Bosch Stemele provided technical assistance for the development of the GIS platform of the Harare water network layout , rezoning of the water distribution network and development of a hydraulic model of the present and future rezoned and upgraded network . The hydraulic network model is essentially a tool for the planning ,
operation and management of the water supply network by HWD .
An additional deliverable of the project was to develop an Investment Plan for the town of Redcliff , located some 150km from Harare along the main road to Bulawayo . The Investment Plan identifies infrastructure rehabilitation measures and interventions to stabilise and improve water supply and sewerage services in Redcliff in the short , medium and long terms .
The project , which is being undertaken by a team of experts from Vitens , Bosch and SNV , commenced in May 2016 and is estimated to be completed by November 2017 .
Mohammed Vawda – vawdam @ boschprojects . co . za
Harare
Mohammed Vawda and Cameron Muller from Bosch at the VEI / SNV offices in Harare
Bosch Munitech expands Underground Services Location to the Western Cape
After the successful launch of its Underground Services Location ( USL ) offering into the Gauteng market in 2015 , Bosch Munitech is pleased to announce the further expansion of this service into the Western Cape . Working from its offices in Cape Town , Bosch Munitech is now in a position to provide a quality , cost effective USL service across the Western Cape . accurate utility drawings for design purposes ; reduced damage caused to essential services during excavation ; reduced costs resulting from re-designs , services damage during construction , and interruptions to work on site ”.
“ We look forward to introducing an improved level of USL services in the Western Cape and increasing our investment in the region ”, concluded Otto .
The detection and mapping of buried utilities incorporates the use of non-intrusive location methods to locate underground services ranging from water pipelines , sewerage lines , electrical cables , telecommunications cables , fibre optic cables and stormwater lines . Bosch Munitech uses state of the art equipment ranging from electromagnetic locators , ground penetrating radar and sonde tracing to locate the services , which are then surveyed , mapped and reduced to 2D and 3D drawings .
Divisional Head , Chris Otto notes that “ Bosch Munitech has become a preferred specialist in underground services location and our high tech , non-intrusive location methods offer fast , accurate and cost effective results on buried utility infrastructure layouts . The expansion into the Western Cape was the next logical step for us , having built up a strong business in Gauteng ”.
He added that , “ Our ability to locate and map buried utilities offers a range of benefits to our Clients . Some of these include :
Chris Otto - ottoc @ boschmunitech . co . za
Luke Crouch scanning grids with ground penetrating radar
Mogomotsi Phoko tracing a high voltage cable route using an electromagnetic locator