PROJECT
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By Dineo Phoshoko
A year later, Lusted Plumbing was contracted to
work on the entire scope of plumbing and drainage
on certain buildings of the university.
PROJECT BACKGROUND
In 2010, the then Minister of Higher Education and
Training, Blade Nzimande, appointed two task teams
to investigate the feasibility of establishing new
universities in Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape. The
Mpumalanga task team submitted a favourable report in
September 2011, recommending the establishment of a
new university in the province.
Two years after the submission, UMP was officially
launched in October 2013. The university will incorporate
the infrastructure of three existing institutions: Lowveld
College of Agriculture, the hospitality school at
KaNyamazane, and the Siyabuswa Education Campus.
Currently, the university offers twelve programmes and
more programmes will be introduced in 2019.
UMP Vice Chancellor, Professor Thoko Mayekiso,
said, “The university will contribute to the academic
development that is needed by the youth and the
growing demand for education in South Africa and
the southern African region. As the only university in
Mpumalanga, it will be accessible to students from as far
as Swaziland and Mozambique.”
THE INSTALLATION
Lusted Plumbing started working on the project in the
middle of 2014. The plumbing company worked on
six buildings at the university, starting with the first
residential block (B001). Lusted Plumbing also worked
on the executive admin block (NBP001), the library block
(NBP002), the ICT (computer) block (NBP003), admin
and multipurpose block (NBP007), and the residence and
Lusted Plumbing owner Llewellyn Lusted explained
that the plumbing company worked closely with Delca
Systems, a wet services engineering company, who
came up with the design specifications for the project.
The project mainly involved the installation of domestic
plumbing and sanitary drainage. This included the
erecting of manholes, new sewer lines, ring feeds to
all the units, and connecting to existing stormwater
and sewer supplies. Overall, this project covered the
entire scope of plumbing and drainage. For block B001,
the following were installed: stormwater, black sewer,
greywater harvesting and supply (for toilet flushing),
cold water, hot water plant, and supply (to all six
buildings making up this block).
Installation at block NBP003 was made up of stormwater,
sewer and cold water — all internal to the building.
Blocks NBP001 and NBP002 had the same installation
of stormwater, black sewer, greywater supply (for toilet
flushing), cold water, hot water plant, and supply — all
internal to the building. The remaining two building
blocks — NBP007 and NBP013 — also had a similar
installation, which included stormwater, sewer, rainwater
storage and supply (for toilet flushing), cold water, hot
water plant, and supply.
The university also has a hotel school, which is another
separate building. Van Aardt’s Plumbing, under the
management of Frans van Aardt, took responsibility for
this building. Most of the work done on the hotel school
consisted of the installation of domestic plumbing and
sanitary drainage in the main kitchen, the demo kitchen,
and the hotel rooms.
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Greywater system to
supply water for toilet
flushing only.
Circulation pump of
the ring feed for the
hot water.
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central dining block (NBP013). Work is still in progress,
with completion being expected in February 2019.
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