a few words about us
Kongiwe Environmental (Pty) Ltd is a contemporary problem-solving consultancy specialising in solving real-world environmental and social challenges. This includes the oftentimes complex process of applying developed world standards, such as those required by the IFC, within a developing world context. We pride ourselves in using practical experience, and the latest technology available, to realise pragmatic solutions for our Clients. The company was created with the essential intent: ‘To solve environmental challenges for a world driven towards a sustainable future’. This remains core to our business strategy and drives all our consulting mandates.
With our head office in Johannesburg, South Africa, and supported by subsidiary offices in Pretoria, Vancouver, and London, our team of professional Environmental and Social Scientists are highly trained across a range of environmental and social disciplines and have significant, hands-on experience in an array of projects across various industries. Equally important, all our staff are direct shareholders and as such have an active interest in client satisfaction and executing projects on time and within budget. Located in the exploration, mining and finance hubs of Johannesburg, Vancouver and the UK, our global footprint is specifically designed to combine a client centric ethos with the ability to execute specialist services quickly and efficiently across Africa.
The company has extensive environmental and project management experience in multiple sectors, with significant experience in South Africa, as well as internationally. Our experience includes large scale and highly complex mining projects with significant environmental and social impacts. This mega project experience combines legislated permitting and licencing functions with ESG and Impact advisory services and is generally undertaken with a complex social backdrop.
We specialise in utilising the latest Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) techniques to establish a holistic understanding of the environment in which our projects occur and we approach our projects from an alternative viewpoint enabling us to establish alternative thinking patterns and deductive techniques to maximise desired outcomes.
We have extensive experience on “both sides of the table” and actively engage lenders. This has developed a practical approach to our advisory service which is sensitive to the commercial aspects impacting the projects we work on.
Being mindful of our unique socio-political history, Kongiwe is committed to meaningful empowerment and transformation. As such, and in line with the South African Government’s Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) programme, Kongiwe is a Level 2 supplier in terms of the Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI) amended BBBEE codes.
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