ON SITE
ON SITE WITH
MAGALIES WATER
PROJECT
By Tarren Bolton | All photos by Tarren Bolton
Murray & Dickson (M&D) Construction is on track to complete the first phase of their 30km
Moretele South Water pipeline project for Magalies Water — the operations and maintenance of
water supply at Moretele Local Municipality.
M
&D offers a wide range of
construction services,
including general building
construction; civil
engineering construction; pipe laying (in
the water as well as oil and gas
industries); earthworks and road
construction; along with construction
plant hire. With a company CIDB grading
of 9CE PE, the pipe laying division is able
to tender on contracts for the public
sector, with clients including mining
companies, water utility boards, fuel and
gas suppliers, municipalities, and the like.
Plant Equipment & Hire met with
the M&D team on site at their current
project: the Magalies Water project.
It encompasses the construction of
the Moretele South Water Supply
Scheme, consisting of 30km of bulk
steel pipelines and cross-connections to
existing infrastructure, to augment water
supply to towns in the Moretele South
region of the North West Province.
“It’s a new pipeline and we are
adding to its capacity,” says Dirk Steyn,
M&D Construction site manager.
“We have started from an existing
line, then we will bring it all along the
N1, go underneath the N1, up to the
R101, underneath the R101, through to
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The Komatsu PC350 is used exclusively by machine operator Thomas Zikhali, and
he even has his name on the cab door — this results in him taking ‘ownership’;
something he is extremely proud of.
Plant equipment is only as good as its operators.”
Rowan Barnard, plant manager
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