The practice of GMH/CPP Consulting Civil Engineers was established when G M Hattingh & Partners (GMH); originating from 1987 joined forces with Civil and Planning Partnership (CPP) which started business in 1980. The main focus of both these companies was Consulting Civil Engineering. GMH specialised in civil engineering infrastructure provision such as roads, stormwater, water and sewer reticulation for township and commercial developments as well as incorporating traffic engineering in their service to Central, Provincial, Local Government and numerous private developers. CPP on the other hand, specialised in the fields of Highway/Bridge and Structural Engineering and has undertaken numerous engineering projects in Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Botswana, Tanzania and Mozambique. The combination of these two companies not only widened their specialised service offer to their respective clients but also opened up the Sub Saharan continent to the group.

Realising that more was needed to be done with regards to effective skills transferring within the Civil Engineering environment and in particular in the new South Africa, the next challenge was to establish a sustainable Civil Engineering Consulting entity that would reflect the demographics of the country. GMH/Tswelelo Consulting Engineers was therefore born from a belief that sustainable development within the engineering environment of the Historically Deprived Individuals (HDI's) only will happen if serious effort towards skills transfer from the Non Deprived individuals could successfully be incorporated, monitored and managed. With that goal in mind, 25% of each Non deprived personnel member was "dedicated" to skills transfer within the engineering environment and was monitored and managed on a monthly basis. Our goal of a sustainable professional engineering consultancy was reached quicker than planned and from August 2006 our entire South African operation functions under the GMH/Tswelelo banner.

Figure 1 schematically depicts the relationships between the different entities that finally constitute GMH/Tswelelo Consulting Civil Engineers.

FIGURE 1 : RELATIONSHIP CONFIGURATION- GMH, CPP, TSWELELO

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