Industrial &
Logistics.
Factories, depots, processing plants and the hardstands, foundations and services that make them work.
Factories, depots, processing plants and the hardstands, foundations and services that make them work.
The Discipline
Industrial work is judged on two things: whether the floor and foundations take the loads they were designed for, and whether construction interrupts production. Both are civil engineering problems more than building problems, which is why an industrial client tends to get the civils team rather than the building team.
Unicon has built and extended factories, depots and processing facilities, including work carried out inside operating plants where the client could not stop running. That kind of contract lives on sequencing, isolation and clean handover of each area.
Scope Of Works
Heavy floors, heavy foundations, and the services around them.
Track Record
Straight from our project database, not a brochure. Contract values are shown as bands.
Industrial work is a smaller part of our record than water and civils. The projects below are the ones the database actually shows, and the capability behind them is the same heavy-civil and structural capability that has delivered the rest of the portfolio.
3
Projects delivered
2003–2009
Years active
2
Client organisations
24 months
Longest contract
| Year | Project | Client | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | SAFAL STEEL Cato Ridge | Safal Steel | R5–20M |
| 2008 | Nestle Coffee Factory – Upgrade & Additions | Nestle SA (Pty) Ltd | R20–50M |
| 2003 | Nestle Milk Depot | Nestle SA (Pty) Ltd | Under R5M |
Who We Build For
Method
What cannot stop, what can be isolated and when. The programme is written around the plant's constraints, not the other way round.
Access, segregation, temporary services and protection of running equipment before construction starts.
Founding, machine bases and slabs, with the load cases and tolerances confirmed against the equipment supplier's data rather than assumed.
Frame, cladding and services, sequenced so that each area can be handed back as it completes.
Support to the equipment installers, grouting, alignment and final handover with the operations team present.
Capacity
We self-perform the work that carries the risk and subcontract the rest to an approved vendor list. What follows is the plant and capability this discipline draws on.
Contracting
Counts below are across the whole portfolio and come from the same database as the project record above.
Appointment Type
Contract Form
CIDB 7CE and 7GB. B-BBEE Level 2 contributor. Work is measured and constructed to the SANS 1200 and SANS 2001 series, with building work to SANS 10400.
Tell us what cannot stop running. That is usually the constraint that decides the programme and the price.