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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 www.plantonline.co.za 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 APRIL 2019 25