The Civil Engineering Contractor March 2018 | Page 10

INFRASTRUCTURE AFRICA
SOUTHERN AFRICA
SOUTH AFRICA
Bureau Veritas invests in SA
Johannesburg, especially to service the
growing demand for pesticide testing.
“We are also investing in Mozambique.
Last year, we invested a lot in a
laboratory in Temba for graphite mines,
and are now investing in Tete for coal
analysis,” he said.
Roussel said South Africa is a key
market in Africa for Bureau Veritas
because of the size of its economy,
while the maturity of the economy also
had a huge impact on the volume of
business it was able to secure.
Roussel said southern Africa accounted
for about a quarter of Bureau Veritas’
business in Africa, but there was still
room to do a lot more business in South
Africa, because there were still some
areas of its services that were not yet
available in the country that were well
developed elsewhere in the world.
Sal Govender, the recently appointed
vice-president for Bureau Veritas
Southern Africa, said they had started
establishing a construction business in
South Africa and planned to have the
required manpower in place and start
operations in the first quarter of
this year.
Govender said they were targeting
municipalities and city entities, such as
the City of Johannesburg and its ageing
structures. She said the inspection
and analysis of structures with
recommendations for urban renewal,
gentrification, and regeneration would
be a huge focus.
Source: Business Report 
Global testing, inspection, and
certification company Bureau Veritas
invested several million euros in South
Africa last year as it expanded its
pr