I. Year of foundation relates to the office completing the questionnaire, also add at the line HEAD OFFICE year of foundation of the firm.

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1 DATABASE: SOUTH AFRICAN CONSULTANTS The South African National Roads Agency, Ltd is currently in the process of revisiting its records pertaining to South African Civil Engineering Consultancy Firms. In order to assist us with the updating of our records you are requested to complete the attached questionnaire and return it to Ms Yogie Naidoo. 1. GENERAL INFORMATION I. Year of foundation relates to the office completing the questionnaire, also add at the line HEAD OFFICE year of foundation of the firm. II. III. Second or more branch offices should be listed in alphabetical order. Affiliations to other businesses or companies should record only those that relate to the civil engineering industry, also listed in alphabetical order. 2 CORE BUSINESS I. Please identify your core business according to the disciplines listed below, ranking them according to the in-house capabilities of your own staff. Ability within any discipline should reflect the following categories: 0 no skills at all 1 poor skills 2 medium skills 3 highly skilled If there are disciplines that are not included, please specify them under items 20 and 21 in the table together with their ranking. II. Under code 22 record the percentage of your business that relates directly to transport and road related infrastructure based on your annual turnover. 3. TECHNICAL PERSONNEL Enter the number of employees under each job description for each branch office of the firm. If there are any other employees not mentioned in the list which you feel should be included, please enter them under item Professional Engineers refer to engineers who are registered with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) as professional engineers. 3.2 Engineering trainees refer to engineers qualified with a Degree or relevant Diploma in Engineering who are still in training and not yet eligible for registration. 3.3 Professional Technologist (Eng) refers to engineering technologists registered with ECSA as professional technologists. 3.4 Registered Technicians (Eng) refer to engineering technicians registered with ECSA as technicians. 3.5 Technician Trainees refer to technical staff in training for registration as Technicians. 3.6 Geologists refer to qualified geologists with a B.Sc (GEOL) degree or equivalent appropriate qualification. 3.7 Surveyors refer to: Qualified surveyors with a B.Sc (Survey) degree or equivalent qualification and registered with PLATO as a Professional Surveyor (Cadastral & Engineering)

2 Surveyor registered with PLATO as a Surveyor or a Surveyor Technician. Surveyor in training 3.8 This item refers to the : Number of personnel in the Financial section with financial qualifications. 3.9 This item refers to : Number of administrative personnel, including secretaries, personal assistants and public relations officers Insert the detail of : Any other personnel in the firm not within the above categories. Specify the categories and provide details Indicate the number of Directors in each office. The Directors must also be taken into account in the categories above in 3.1 to EXPERIENCE Provide the number of personnel per each category of work and within each range of years of experience, i.e. In your firm you have 25 engineers, registered professional engineers and engineering trainees, with experience in geometric design of roads. Group them in the categories of experience in that field, e.g. 8 between 0 and 5 years experience 12 between 5 and 15 years experience 5 with more than 15 years experience. The same categories apply for Technologists and Technicians. Other personnel, for example draughtsman, tracers, surveyors etc will be indicated in the last group OTHER. You may specify these job categories in a separate note, if you prefer to have them specified. 5. PROJECTS COMPLETED Provide a list of the most important relevant projects completed recently for the South African national Roads Agency Ltd (SANRAL), Road Authorities or other Institutions. The following information is required for each project description: Whether the work was performed by your firm only, or in Joint Venture (JV) with another firm or firms. In case of a JV, whether your firm was the senior or junior partner of the JV. The actual project cost or the estimated cost. Whether it was a design appointment or construction supervision or both. Initial or detail assessment appointments will fall under design. 6. SPECIALIST FIELD Your firm may be prepared to offer engineering services in fields other than your specialized field. Please indicate in which fields you are specializing and also indicate what other fields of expertise can be found within your company. Please fill in the team leader(s) in each field with their qualifications and experience in detail. This information would enable us to select the appropriate firm for a particular project.

3 7. EQUITY This section should be completed as required by the current Employment Equity Act. 8. AFFIRMATIVE POLICY It is important to indicate your affirmative action policies and plans, supported by actual achievements of empowerment of previously disadvantaged groups. Your contribution towards training, bursaries and empowerment must also be listed.

4 CONSULTING ENGINEERS & CONSULTANTS QUESTIONNAIRE 1. GENERAL INFORMATION please supply details for all offices Name of Organisation OFFICE 1 OFFICE 2 OFFICE 3 OFFICE 4 Address (Physical) Address (Postal) Telephone Fax Year of foundation Affiliations Contact person (s)

5 2. CORE BUSINESS CODE DESCRIPTION ABILITY LEVEL WITHIN THE FIRM OFFICE 1 OFFICE 2 OFFICE 3 OFFICE 4 OFFICE 5 1 Community Liaison 2 Development Engineering 3 Environmental Engineering 4 Geotechnical Engineering 5 Geometric Design 6 Hydraulics & Hydrology 7 Materials & Pavement Design 8 Site Supervision 9 Project Management 10 Contract Documentation 11 Road Signs 12 Road Structures (Bridges, Culverts, etc) 13 Structures (Other) 14 Survey 15 Toll Facility Design 16 Toll Feasibility Studies 17 Traffic Engineering 18 Transport Planning/Economics 19 Road Network Maintenance 20 Labour Enhanced Construction Road related business as a percentage of the total business of the firm %

6 3. CAPACITY CATEGORY 1 Pr. Engineer 2 Engineering Trainees with Eng. Degree with Eng. Diploma 3 Pr. Technologist (Eng.) 4 Registered Technician (Eng) 5 Technician Trainees 6 Geologist B.Sc(Geologist) 7 Surveyors Professional Surveyor Registered Surveyor Surveyor in Training 8 Financial 9 Admin 10 Other (specify) 11 Directors TOTAL NUMBER OF STAFF PER OFFICE PER JOB DESCRIPTION Office 1 Office 2 Office 3 Office 4 Office 5

7 4. EXPERIENCE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE 1 Roads Geom Design Material & Pavement Design Traffic Eng. Construction Supervision 2 Structures Bridge Design: Reinforced Concrete Prestressed Concrete Design of other structures Construction Supervision 3 Hydraulics Hydraulic/Flood design Road drainage design 4 Geotechnic Design Construction Supervision 5 Environmental matters Environmental Impact Assessments Public participation 6 Road Signs Design Construction Supervision 7 Toll Facilities Design Construction Supervision 8 Transport Planning Road Network Maintenance 9 Labour Enhanced construction TOTAL NUMBER OF STAFF PER CATEGORY OF EXPERIENCE Engineers Technologists Technicians Other > > > >15

8 5. PROJECTS COMPLETED (a) For SANRAL PROJECT DESCRIPTION (b) Other Organisations PROJECT DESCRIPTION NO JV SNR PARTNER NO. JV SNR PARTNER JV JV JNR PARTNER JNR PARTNER PROJECT COST ACTUAL OR ESTIMATE PROJECT COST ACTUAL OR ESTIMATE DESIGN CONSTRUCTION DESIGN CONSTRUCTION

9 6. SPECIALIST FIELD SPECIALIST FIELD TEAM LEADERS QUALIFICATIONS EXPERIENCE 7. COMPOSITION OF FIRM DESCRIPTION NUMBER OF STAFF PER POPULATION GROUP BLACK WHITE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE DIRECTORS EMPLOYEES TOTAL

10 EQUITY 8.1 Shareholders TOTAL NUMBER IN FIRM & TOTAL % SHAREHOLDINGS DESCRIPTION BLACK WHITE MALE FEMALE MALE FEMALE DIRECTORS No % Share No % Share No % Share No % Share EMPLOYEES OTHER (SPECIFY) TOTAL 8.2 In service training Provide statistics of training to employees from previously disadvantaged groups Please also include fiqures for Females (including all females) and for PDI s (total number including females) DESCRIPTION OF TRAINING PERSON HOURS SPEND ANNUALLY AMOUNT SPENT ANNUALLY TOTAL