[IZINGODLA ENGINEERING (PTY) LTD COMPANY PROFILE]
Table of Contents
1.Introduction
2.Our Mission is
3.Our Vision is
4.Ownership and Stake holding History
5.Business Management and standards
6.African Footprint
7.Izingodla Engineering company
7.1Capability of Izingodla Engineering (Pty) Ltd
7.1.1ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
7.1.1.1Electrical Networks
7.1.1.2Industrial and Commercial
7.1.1.3Network Master Planning
7.1.1.4Network upgrade and refurbishment
7.1.1.5Distribution Network Planning
7.1.1.6Documentation
7.2Cost Engineering
7.3Technical support
7.3.1Project Management
7.3.2Energy Management
7.3.3Programme Management
7.3.4Information Network Systems
7.3.5Construction management and supervision
Vendor Relationship
8.IziNGODLA TECHNOLOGY
9.Project experience
10.contactS
1.Introduction
Izingodla Engineering (Pty) Ltdis aninterdisciplinarybusiness founded on the basis of providing excellent, efficient and effectiveservices to its clients. Izingodla EngineeringGroupis a 100% independent Empowerment Companymanaged by Professional with a variety of skills and experience in the Electrical, consulting and development industry.Izingodla Engineeringgroup iscurrently focusing on two main areas of business, Izingodla Electrical Engineering and Izingodla Technology.
Izingodla EngineeringGroup is a premier engineeringservice company that specializes in delivering electrical engineering servicesnationally in the Power System Protection and Telemetry environment, as well as Network Development Plans for sub-transmission networks.
The company is working in concord with new and existing operators, providing specialist support during the implementation of key business objectives. Across the whole field of engineering services we help our clients gain competitive advantage through creative strategy Izingodla Engineering and technical solutions.
Our culture nurtures imagination and creativity, our success is measured by our customers business results.
2.Our Mission is
Our mission is to provide clients across Africa with electrical engineering and information network systems services for all types of Networks, from concept planning through to completion, with highly skilled professional team working together, using common sense and practical experience, tailored to the needs and requirements of our individual customers.
3.Our Vision is
“Striving to be the biggest and powerful power and network systems service Delivery Company in Africa”
Although the company operations are to ensure our future, we will also endeavor to develop community. Izingodla Engineeringoperates by making use of local resources throughout the duration of the contract.
Keys to Success
- Provide professional quality services on time and on budget.
- Develop a follow-up strategy to gauge good performance with all clients.
- Implement and maintain a quality control and assurance policy.
- To be transparent and show consistency to our clients and stakeholders.
- To offer internship, Empower and mentor graduates that specialize in our field of work.
4.Ownership and Stake holding History
SN Nxumalo,is the founder andManaging Director of Izingodla Engineering (Pty) Ltd. S Nxumalo is a dynamic organizational builder with broad exposure to corporate practice, who has been involved in the Projects Clerk of Working at Capital Programme Department in Eskom, and worked as Network Planner at Network Services in Eskom. His extensive experiences are in Designing, Commissioning and Maintaining of Protection, Telecontrol and DC Devices in Substations, Reticulation in the Electricity Delivering Field Services for Eskom. He brings aggressive leadership and organizational building skills to the business.
S S Hadebeis a Marketing & HR Director of Izingodla Engineering (Pty) Ltd. She is a qualified Marketing Manager with 5 years experience in the Marketing field. She has worked at Old Mutual as assistant marketing manager in the PFA department. Two years of those 5 years she has worked as a marketing manager for one of the well established Electrical Engineering Company. She was managing communication between company and clients, Co-ordinating events, advertising, PR and securing and maintaining relationships with clients like Eskom, DRA, Rand Water, Johannesburg Water, various municipalities in different provinces, private companies and other various mines. She is bringing a women feel in the company and ensuring that the company expands in teams of business development and to ensure professionalism in our everyday business conduct.
K Mattheus, Pr Eng is an Executiveoperations strategist; he has 23 years in Electrical Engineering field. He has extensive experience in the Generation, Transmission and Distribution scope of Power System protection. Under the Generation sector: Hydro Electric and gas turbine, under the Transmission sector: he has worked on systems up to 132kV, including system stability equipment such as Reactors and Static VAR compensators. Under the Distribution sector: from substations through to reclosers, sectionalisers and fusing philosophies. He has extensive knowledge off all aspects of Power System Protection, Design, settings calculations, commissioning, system fault analysis utilizing system data recording software, etc. Another one of my functions as a senior protection technician was to project manage entire substation installation and commissioning, including costing, system integration, time management, etc. He has worked predominantly on substation commissioning of phase 3 protection relaying equipment with regards to pre-installation, set-up and commissioning. Relays were dealt with from the following manufacturers: ABB, SEL, REYROLLE, EBERLE, SIEMENS, ASEA, KOKOS and GE.
SM Jantjies, Pr Eng is a Director of Operations and Planningat Izingodla Engineering. He heads our planning and design function and provides advisory in business strategy and finance. He is a registered professional engineer with business and financial savvy. His experience is in the utilities sector and Investment banking. He has been involved in Reticulation and Sub-Transmission Planning, Overhead line designs, Underground Cable Network Designs, and Transmission Projects Management. He was a Network Development Planner and a Project Engineer at Eskom Distribution (Southern Region), Senior Engineer at City Power (JHB) and a Project Manager at Eskom CED(Transmission: PDP Northern Grid Projects).He has developed highly proficient skills in most Planning and Design tools utilised in South Africa. His passion for Techno-Economic business solutions has led him to a career in Investment Banking in one of South Africa’s largest Investment Banks after training in London at one of the leading global Investment Bank in the UK.
M Simmonsis a manager of Technical Specialised Group. He has 18 years of experience in the Electrical Maintenance industry and has built up an enviable client base, network and reputation in the sector. He has been closely involved in many initiatives within the industry and has successfully led the Field Services Divisions a well known company in the sector. His passion for transformers and related components has made him one of the top advisors in the industry. Originally trained in the retail sector he has been able to swing around his knowledge, education and experience to focus only on the Electrical Services requirements of Industry and the Mining sector.
Elvis Ntuliholds the position of being an IT director, with great experience in the IT Industry. Elvis has qualifications from the University of the Witwatersrand with a Business Finance Degree and an Honours Degree in Information Systems. Elvis has been mainly focused on the business analyses and project management of IT projects. Elvis has consulted mainly in the banking industry for top South African banks such as Nedbank and First National Bank. Elvis has great experience working and consulting with international IT companies. Elvis has also been involved in other technological areas such as Website Design and Networking.
Our Organizational Structure
5.Business Management and standards
A commitment to quality in every aspect of its business enshrines Izingodla Engineering Company competitive advantage. Izingodla Engineering Company has a wide range of experience in complying with quality assurance systems requested by clients and conforming to their procedures. We assess each project in consultation with the client, in order to determine an effective programme and an agreed quality level appropriate to the project. Thereafter, the Company ensures that there is full and adequate liaison with the client to assist in assuring quality.
Our Quality Policy includes:
- Achieve, sustain and improve the actual high quality of service provided in a manner that should continually meet the stated, implied and perceived needs of the company’s clients in a cost effective way.
- Provide a documented assurance to clients that the intended quality of service shall be is being and has been achieved.
6.African Footprint
Izingodla EngineeringCompanyis a proudly ownedBlack Business Empowered South African company, which operates throughout Africa, with its head offices in South Africa, Gauteng and branches in KZN – Durban and Eastern Cape – East London.
Izingodla Engineering is committed to the government’s affirmative action policy and to the uplifting of disadvantaged community IE and individuals.Izingodla Engineeringfully subscribes to affirmative action as a necessary means of addressing the imbalances of the past in the professional disciplines. The staffs complement within Izingodla Engineering Group highlights this fact. This means that, wherever possible, opportunity Izingodla Engineering will be created within the Company to train, employ and promote people from historically marginalized backgrounds.
It should be stressed that affirmative action demands that strict criteria be set up for rewarding merit, quality or excellence to ensure that people from marginalized backgrounds can grow to meet the requirements for entry and integration into positions where they can play a meaningful role in the management and direction of the Company. Although a small practice with limited resources, Izingodla Engineering Company strives to fulfil this ideal.
7.Izingodla Engineeringcompany
Izingodla Engineering companystructure consists of directors and managers with the following experience:
Izingodla Engineeringcan provide services in the following areas:
Power System Protection, DC and Tele control commissioning
Power System Protection, DC and Tele control (Short/Long term) maintenance plan
Power System Protection, DC and Tele control breakdown/repairs
Substation cabling and terminating
Substation secondary electrical designs for protection, DC, metering and telemetry
Reticulation equipment testing and installation.
Industrial high voltage network maintenance and commissioning
Construction of distribution lines and High Voltage Networks
Energy meter installation
Project cost estimate and management
Project Co-ordinating and Clerk of Works
Installation, Maintenance and breakdown/repairs of Industrial and Household Security systems.
Network Planning and Designing
Monitoring system adequacy proactively and identifying shortcomings requiring attention.
Identifying possible solutions and study them to select the best techno-economic solution.
Performing financial justification on preferred solution.
Performing reticulation network and sub-transmission planning to produce network Development Plans and Network Master Plans
Forecasting the loads on reticulation and HV feeders by identifying possible loads and load changes
Analysing the loads, fault levels and voltage levels on the network to ensure capable networks
Cost effectively expand network to satisfy customers electricity needs
Ensure appropriate quality and reliability of supply
Produce Planning Reports of electrification projects, Network Development Plans and Network Master Plans
Sub-transmission substation design
Overhead lines design
Earthing and Lightning protection
Refurbishment and major maintenance of overhead lines and substations
IT Experience:(includes E-mail, Network and Website Design, Setup and Maintenance)
7.1Capability of Izingodla Engineering (Pty) Ltd
7.1.1ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Izingodla Engineering can deliver turnkey solutions; the principle for this service is that Izingodla Engineering Company will take ownership and management of suppliers, working in conjunction with the customer to provide the integrated service package.
Example: Management of multiple equipment vendors with electrical and constructions infrastructure build company IE to ensure the scheduling of works allowing for a smooth implementation plan.
7.1.1.1Electrical Networks
Distribution and Sub Transmission lines
Sub Transmission lines
Producing complete optimal optimum PLS-CADD Line Designs from Topographical Strips, X,Y,Z Coordinates, Seed Files and Templates.
Substations
Site selection investigation
Earth mat design
Lighting system design
Lightning protection design
Substation layout subject to :-
- Security zoning
- Operational zoning
- Electrical requirements
- Future extensions
- System flexibility
- Specific requirements
Protection and control system design
Protection acceptance testing
Protection settings calculations
Substation automation and remote interrogation
Substation secondary Network cabling
SVC Static VAR Compensation
Power factor correction
Generation – protection and standby units
Metering selection and setting
Telecommunication system design
Static and dynamic analysis of substation structures and bus bar systems
Optimised separation distances
MV outdoor feeder bay design
- Specifying Outdoor Breakers, Isolator, Surge Arrestors, Post type CT’s and VT’s requirements for outdoor MV feeder bays.
MV indoor switchgear design
- Specifying indoor switchgear requirements (Current Rating for Transformer Incomer, Bus Section and Feeder Breakers). Incorporating Secondary Plant requirement into Primary Plant designs.
HV outdoor (AIS) and Hybrid (Pass and Compass Unit) Substation Design, voltage level 11kV – 132kV
- Single Line Diagrams
- General Arrangement and Section Views
- Fault Level Calculations
- Lightning Protection Plan
- Earthmat/ Grounding system Design (CDEGS)
- Foundation Plan, Bill of Activities, Bill of Materials, NEC Engineering and Construction Contract
Earthing and lightning protection
- Evaluation of existing earthing and lightning systems, including equipment inspection
- Design of the new earthing systems in accordance IEEE 80 standard (Wenner Method) and lightning protection in accordance with SABS and relevant international standards.
7.1.1.2 Industrial and Commercial
Optimised cable types, sizes and layout routs
Switch gear selection and settings
Indoor switching room design
Lighting design and investigations
- Multi-storey building complexes and casinos
- Hospitals and clinics
- Street lighting
- Indoor industrial lighting
- Sports field and flood lighting
7.1.1.3Network Master Planning
- Information Gathering and Review
Review of electrical network information
- SLD,
- Substation diagrams
- Network operating diagrams
- Network analysis files (Power Factory, ReticMaster, PSSE)
- Parameter data (nameplates, cable sizes and cable routes, conductor sizes)
- Load data for sub-transmission substations and feeders
- Network maintenance records
Review of existing studies and reports including:
- Load forecast
- Network Development Plans and Master Plans
- General existing planning related information
- Refurbishment reports
- Planning and Operational criteria
- Network Development Plans and previous Master Plan reports.
Review Operational information of existing networks
- Current operational problems
- List of operational problems
- Maintenance problems.
-Update and refine the existing Sub-Transmission planning criteria
The Planning philosophy
Reliability criteria
Financial criteria
Technology selection criteria
-Network Model
Review major power equipment libraries according to utilities practices and standards
Verify and Test Network Model
-Integration of Refurbishment Plans
Obtain and integrate refurbishment requirements with the long-term Master Plan
-Integration of Load Forecast
Interpretation of the existing feeder loads for use in simulation tool to represent the existing and predict future load scenarios
Update the load forecast model with new substations and feeder zones to comply with the envisaged future network development and load transfers.
-Network Assessment
Network Analysis: Steady-state
Conduct network simulation on existing and future networks, which includes:
- Analysis on various network load levels and configurations to effectively identify thermal and voltage violations occurring due to existing and future load growth
- Identification of alternatives and tests to ensure technical viable solutions to these violations
Contingency Analysis
- Carry out contingency analysis where specific network elements are taken out of service and the result thereof tested through a load flow.
-Cost Estimates
Cost preferred alternatives
-Study report
Compilation of a report which includes the following aspects:
Exceptive summary
Definition of Methodologies
Data and assumptions used to conduct the study
Technical evaluation aspects
Findings and recommendations
7.1.1.4 Network upgrade and refurbishment
Distribution, sub-transmission line and substation audits, investigation and preparation of upgrade proposals
Rehabilitation of overhead networks
System earthing evaluation
7.1.1.5Distribution Network Planning
Reticulation and sub-transmission network planning
Network modelling and load flow analysis using ReticMaster, Power factory and PSSE power system tools.
Identification of network constrains over a forecasted period of time
Proposing different solutions to overcome the identified network problems
Evaluation of the proposed solutions and the selection of the best alternative
Justification of the preferred solution using financial parameters
7.1.1.6 Documentation
Detailed bill of material and scope of works
Detailed design drawings (substations) :-
- Site plan indicating levels required
- General arrangements and sections
- Foundation and earth mat arrangements
- Detailed plans for buildings
- Protection, control, metering and telecommunication AC & DC keys
Detailed design drawings (lines) :-
- HV/LV Line Construction Templates
- Structures
- Foundations
- Fittings
- Earth electrodes
Detailed project specification and tender documentation
Detailed technical reports for network analysis studies
- Executive summary of the proposed solutions
- Network description and analysis
- Proposed network layouts and Single Line Diagrams
- Geographical positioning of the proposed infrastructure investments
7.2Cost Engineering
Quantity surveying on all types of construction and installation
Cost advice, planning and best price negotiation