Human Settlements Ensuring Quality Housing

SRK Consulting hs contributed its scientific and engineering expertise to numerous housing projects in KwaZulu-Natal since 2010 and has, to date, been instrumental in the successful completion of about 3 400 houses. Projects have ranged from peri-urban developments, comprising upwards of 1 000 stands, to smal rural initaitives comprising 20 to 70 homes.

 The SRK team, with its broad range of expertise, is making an important contribution in terms of services ranging from environmental engineering to quality assurance, 'explains James Morris, partner and lead engineer, SRK. In town planning management, for example, we make use of a spatial planning tool that provides geographic information system overlays of development suitability critieria such as geotechnics, slope, road corridors, floodlines, wetlands, servitudes and endangered species in the area of the development.

Acknowledged: IMIESA