D Niemann & Associates - Consulting Engineers
Steel Structures in Springs

STRUCTURAL STEEL DESIGNERS OF BULK MATERIALS HANDLING PLANTS.

Our company aircraft are hangared at Springs Airfield approximately 30 km east of Johannesburg, from where it is flown by our in-house pilot to our clients’ premises, often remote construction sites, power stations and mines in Southern Africa, using bush pilot, mountain flying and STOL (short take off and landing) techniques, especially on gravel or grass strips. Flying to remote destinations shorten travel times considerably, enabling us to serve our clients more effectively by resolving their complex mining, storage and production problems sooner. We are mainly involved in the mineral and metals, mining, power generation, cement and petrochemical environment, and for the past ten years approximately eighty percent of our work has been in the coal mining sector. Our experience in structural design and industry exposure stretch over a period of almost forty years across a broad spectrum of international projects, in the Minerals and Metals, Mining, Power Generation, Cement and Petrochemical Industries. We are actively involved from inception to handover by travelling locally and abroad liaising with clients and their professional team, before proceeding with any design work. Also multi disciplinary design work awarded to sub-contracting consulting engineers are executed by registered engineers or work of a lesser design nature is done by skilled personnel supervised by a registered Professional engineer. The latest codes of practice and amendments are observed and used for the specific country where structures will be constructed, as well as all related client specifications. Safety and ergonomics are important aspects to us, and therefore we set out to achieve a fine balance between safeness and soundness on the one side, while always keeping the economic factor in mind for the benefit of our clients. We apply internationally accepted norms and engineering practice as well as sound engineering judgement to all work undertaken. The latest and most up to date computer engineering software is used to ensure optimum design results.