Management Team
Sakkie van der Vyver
Tinus van Heerden
After a short career in designing, constructing and upgrading of airfields and roadworks with the South African Air Force, Tinus van Heerden joined the Transvaal Roads Department where he was active in design, construction and maintenance for ten years until he became a co-founder and director of V&V. From 1983 until the present he has been involved in a variety of projects, including design and construction of roads, development and implementation of Road Management Systems, and detailed geotechnical investigations.
Albie Hanekom
With fifteen years computer and information technology experience behind him, Albie heads Infrastructure System Integrators in obtaining the market share attainable. His strong believe in cost saving through effective system integration is a driving force for the team backing the integration concept. Albie joined V&V during 1995 as Information Technology manager. His responsibilities
included development of management systems. Under his leadership the Road Infrastructure Management System (RIMS) was successfully designed, developed and implemented.
On completion of his studies and national service, he joined Denel Informatics, where hê was involved with various management information systems in the logistical and financial arena. He was awarded the employee of the month award in May 1994 after continued successes in the system integration field. As system integrator at CENIT, Albie was responsible for technical designs and user requirement assessments for the integration of management systems. His expertise around networking, client-server applications and database management systems was enhanced during this period with corporate clients such as ESCOM and the SANDF.
He was responsible for the integration and implementation of the Road Referencing System (RRS), Geographic Information System (GIS), Pavement Management System (PMS), Gravel Road Management System (GRMS), Roadside Infrastructure Management System (RSIMS) and Traffic Surveillance System (TSS) into the Road Infrastructure Management System (RIMS).
His current focus is on Information Technology consultation, which focuses on information technology master plans, quality management and integrating different infrastructure
management systems. His international experience includes integration of tactical management systems in Ciskei, development of a PMS for Roadbinders Namibia, Information Management and Control System (IMCS), Pavement Management System, Traffic Surveillance System and Material Information system for the Department Of Transport Namibia as well as GIS consultation in the Republic of Namibia. Official visits to Dallas (Texas), Belgium and Dubai (UAE) expanded his functional understanding of roads authority management information needs. Albie lectures at the University of Pretoria and Stellenbosch on an ad-hoc basis and is also involved in presenting user-groups for leading engineering companies.
His commitment to service excellence, his ability to bring theory and practice together in a
meaningful coalition and a steadfast believe in solid principles ensures success to any organisation.
Marius van Luin
Marius started his career with Van Wyk & Louw (Africon) in 1984 and took responsibility for a diverse range of technical drawings and calculation of quantities for several roads projects.
During his military training he designed different military facilities, supervised the maintenance of sewage purification works and water mains, which was a 14km steel pipe line, further social commitments reflects involvement in the staking of factory foundation and planning assistance in local community sports development.
n 1992 he joined V&V where now, as shareholder and head of department, specialises in geometric design of roads and appurtenant stormwater, calculation of quantities, project documentation and project management and also registered as a professional project and construction manager at the South African Council for Project and Construction Management Professions. He is also an accredited procurement agent in the application of the targeted procurement of the Department of Public Works, involved on the procurement on contracts. All aspects, from the design to the implementation of a project are done, including the preparation of tender documents and the supervision and management of the construction work.
Pieter Bester
Pieter’s career started at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The division called Transportek at the CSIR, which specialises in road research and all related subjects, was his home. At the CSIR he was a Project Manager where he was responsible not only for his own research, but also coordinated the work of various other project leaders.
He was also manager of the surveillance equipment at the CSIR, which gave him the intimate knowledge of deflection, skid resistance, riding quality and traffic count measurement and equipment.
Since university Pieter has been interested in roads and especially the management of roads, together with road design and maintenance. The field, in which he specialised, is road management systems. He has experience working with various management systems, for example HDM and Paver, as well as lesser known systems.
Pieter also has experience in lesser known fields of Arestorbeds, a system whereby runaway trucks can be brought to a standstill on steep sections of road.
Road maintenance and rehabilitation are the natural next step once a management system is in place and thus the associated fields are also well studied by Pieter. Structural road design, remaining life calculations, reseal design, routine maintenance and rehabilitation design form part of the daily activities of the incumbent. All aspects, from the design to the implementation of a project are done, including the preparation of tender documents and the supervision and management of the construction work.
Pieter has also extensive experience in design and construct projects (turnkey projects) in the roads and stormwater fields. Various projects have been completed for the three metro municipalities of Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni and Tshwane. This concept delivers a very fast turn around time for the construction and design of infrastructure from date of conception to completion.
Annes de Bruyn
Annes de Bruyn started his career at the SAR as an Engineer in training in 1976 after obtaining a BSc Eng (Civil) degree at the University of Pretoria. He obtained further experience working at Consulting Engineers Liebenberg Stander & Vrba and Van Wyk Louw, doing mainly construction supervision and structural design work. He joined the Pretoria City Council in 1982 as a Project Engineer. He left Pretoria to join a small Consulting Engineering practice called Steenkamp Hatting & Haupt in 1984. He was the Head of the Civil Engineering division and became a partner in
1990. In 1996, the company transformed into three companies operating under the following names:
* Dux Consulting Engineers (Pietersburg)
* Hannes Hatting Consulting Engineers (Pretoria)
* Civec (Modderfontein)
In 2002 he retired from Dux Consulting Engineers to move back to Pretoria. He did part-time work for V&V Consulting Engineers since then and joined the company on a full-time basis in January 2006.
Lukas Nigrini
Mr. J.L. Nigrini was employed by SNA Construction and development engineers (PTY) Ltd. where he was responsible for Quality Control on contracts as well as construction supervision. He was involved in major construction works which include Concrete works, Concrete pavements, Bridge Construction, Earthworks, Premix pavements, patching and seal works.
He was also responsible for designing concrete and asphalt mixes and pavement layers on many major contracts throughout the Republic and Abroad.
He is also in charge of Technical Control Laboratories He was also involved in several construction sites where labour intensive and emerging contractors where involved. He later excelled to management where he gained respect as a fierce competitor and dedicated worker.
Terence joined V&V in 2002 as senior IT analyst/developer. His previous experience was IT development of financial systems and systems for grain storage and marketing for a major agricultural company as well as management programs for farmers. Since joining V&V he has maintained and expanded the Infrastructure Management systems. Some of the additions include:
1.Project Prioritisation module. Based on certain risk factors the maintenance and rehabilitation priority lists of the different infra structure branches are combined into one priority list.
2. Link to HDM-4. Relevant data is taken from the various infrastructure management systems, merged according to uniform attribute categories as defined by the user, and exported in a matrix suitable for import into HDM-4. Reports, graphs and maps are then generated from the HDM-4 results.
Legislation regarding the compliance of municipalities to generally accepted accounting standards has lead to the need of an Asset Management module. This is currently his main focus.
Stephan Strydom
Stephan started his professional career in 1995 as site agent, constructing residential roads in Thubatsi (Burgersfort), low level water crossings in Schoonoord (Steelpoort) and fresh water and sewer services in Bela-Bela (Warmbaths). This was to be amongst the first of the pioneering labour-intensive construction projects to be implemented by the Government’s Re-Development Programme.
Stephan joined V&V in 1997 as a Civil Technician where he obtained his BSc(Hons) App. Sci. Transportation Planning at the University of Pretoria. He is currently a Senior Design Engineer of the department Geometry (Roads & Stormwater). Stephan, specialising in infrastructure planning and design, is responsible for planning, design, quantities, contract documentation, contract drawings, quality control and as-built on various roads, infrastructure, fresh water, stormwater and sewer projects.
The diversity of his expertise is reflected in the V&V client base, which includes National, Provincial, Municipal, Institutional and Private Entities.
