YP Best Practice Seminar on

Leadership & Management

12 March 2019 – Cape Town

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Agenda for the Day

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Introduction

• Purpose: A one-day seminar aimed specifically at closing skills gaps in the engineering

environment through empowering you our young professionals.

• Philosophy is that sharing of unique experiences by senior consulting engineers will result in

young professionals making more informed choices, either to grow within the firm of their

employment or to start their own consulting engineering firm.

• Two broad topics have been identified to enable different leaders / speakers to relate their

own life stories and expertise coupled with best practices:

– Engineering, Business and Entrepreneurship

– Personal and Professional Development

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Personal Journey

Sahil Patel

197840 yrs

5

1999BScEng(Civil)24Durban

1st Job 14yrs

DirectorCESAYPF,

Branch

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16Cape Town 2002MScEng

2008Pr Eng

Member representation

• 14 Member Companies and 1 Client Body

• 28 attendees

• 7 attendees from 1 member company

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Personal Introductions

• Name

• Background

• Company

• Share something that is unique about you

• What are your key expectations of this seminar?

• What is currently your key challenge in your career?

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About CESA

12 March 2019

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Outline

• History of Industry

• Membership Growth

• Developments over the past 66 years

• Organisational Governance

• Governance of Members

• Advocacy

• Networking and Information Sharing

• Closing Remarks

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Brief History of Industry

• The first known local consulting engineering practices formed after the First World War (1914

– 1918);

• Firms were small and consisted of civil, mechanical and electrical engineers who were sought

because of their personal standing in the engineering profession.

• Practices operated as partnerships in niche markets such as roads, railways, power

generation and bulk water supply.

• By the 1950’s some of the leading consulting engineering practices were already employing

more than 50 staff members.

• In 1951, small group of independent consulting engineers formed an organisation to establish

a code of conduct and ground rules for endorsing the professionalism and integrity of its

members.

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Developments in the past 66 years

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1952 20141952 1959 1966 1973 1980 1987 1994 2001 2008

SAACE constitution is adopted, Kelvin House, JHB, 1952

SAACE joins FIDIC, 1957

PI Scheme Adopted -Glenrand now AON

1962

Quality and Risk Management Committee initiated, 1980

QMS became mandatory

2006

SAACE rebrands2008

Sustainability Management Frameworks

2014

Business Integrity Management Sytems

2011

See CESA website at http://www.cesa.co.za/node/33

Membership Growth

• Membership grew over the years, from 30 individuals to 560 member firms, which employs

22,000 personnel

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1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 2030

CESA’S Head Office

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• CESA is a voluntary association with member firms with its Head Office in Paulshof, JHB

CESA Directorate’s Operational Team

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Chris Campbell

(CEO)

Education and Training

Brenda Lacey-Smith

Marketing and Communications

Bonolo Nkgodi

Stakeholder Liaison,

Branches and YPF

Godfrey Ramalisa

Finance, HR and Admin

Sue Davis-Clarke

SCM, Membership

& QRS

Wally Mayne

Organisational Governance

• The Governing Body is the Board drawn from Principals of Member Companies, with CEO ex

–officio member of Board led by President & Deputy President (2 year term);

– Neresh Pather (President) – 2018 and 2019

– Sugen Pillay (Deputy President) – 2018 and 2019

• There are several Board Committees, such as Finance, Advocacy, Marketing & Comms,

Transformation, Membership . . .

• Council made up of Board & Branch Chairs representing 12 regions.

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Governance of Members

• As a condition of membership every member firm subscribes to the CESA Code of Conduct,

see CESA website at http://www.cesa.co.za/node/18

• Member firms also required to abide to the CESA Constitution & Byelaws,

see CESA website at http://www.cesa.co.za/node/18

• A Disciplinary Code is maintained by CESA in order to deal with allegations of misconduct/

transgressions of the Code of Conduct and/ or the Constitution,

see CESA website at http://www.cesa.co.za/node/33

• Usually complaints are dealt with by the CESA President, the CEO and the Chairperson of

the Membership Committee. If any sanction is recommended it has to be approved by the

CESA Board.

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Advocacy Role

• CESA promotes members to the Public and Clients at several levels by:

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CESA Directory and Website All Social Media Platforms

Promotion of

Transformation of firms

through Construction

Sector Charter Council

Active Participation in Sector Activities

Arranging National and Branch

Client Liaison Meetings

Liaising and Lobbying with all levels of Government

Networking & Information Sharing

• Networking

– Annual Presidential Media Breakfast;

– Annual CESA-AON Excellence in Engineering Awards;

– Annual Infrastructure Indaba;

– Annual Relay;

– Annual Presidential Golf Day;

– Annual Branch Visits;

– Annual YP Imbizo

• Information Sharing

– Issue number of communiques to members, mostly electronically :

– CE-Track quarterly newsletter;

– CE- Monthly newsletter;

– Ad Hoc newsflashes;

– 6 monthly, Bi-annual Economic Capacity Survey (BECS);

– Annual Salary Survey;

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Closing Remarks

• Encourage you to get involved with your local YPF Chapter;

• Encourage you to aspire to being a future captain of industry;

• It is a journey not an event;

• Be the master of your own destination;

“If it is to be it is up to me”

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING

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