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“The ASLA house is a really good and robust product,” says ASLA contracts manager Schalk van Eeden, who has been working for the company for over two decades. To illustrate he relays an incident of a bus driving into one of the frames on a construction site. “About 22...

“I’m passionate about improving the human condition, especially within poorer, disadvantaged communities,” says ASLA DEVCO’s project manager Belinda Munsamy-Swartland. “It’s the reason I studied a Social Sciences degree. It motivated my decision to work within the...

Annamie Thompson is a Divisional Quantity Surveyor in the civil division at ASLA, where she has worked for more than thirteen years. In 2003, she first enrolled to study for a Cartography degree, but after a few weeks realised that civil engineering was where her...

If you’re looking for a generous serving of hope and inspiration, then look no further than Werner Brandt (Wally) from Lutzville West. Wally started with ASLA as a jolly jumper (mechanical earth compactor) operator, and today he is a construction manager with ASLA...

On 1 March this year Jody October, a Final Level Grader Operator, celebrated 20 years at ASLA. He hails from Heidelberg in the Southern Cape, a small town on the N2, on route to George and just past Swellendam – “It’s exactly 227km from here where we are on site,” he...

Companies like ASLA are sensitive ecosystems within which many important, yet frequently unsung heroes contribute invaluably to the organisation’s growth and excellence. One such individual is Johan Verwey. Johan joined ASLA in 1988 and has proven his loyalty and...

A scenic six-kilometre drive from ASLA’s head office in Strand will take you to the Sir Lowry’s Pass Village (SLPV) housing development, currently being constructed for the City of Cape Town by ASLA Construction. The project scope encompasses the civils, building and...

Aldine Kleinhans, a qualified Building Quantity Surveyor, joined ASLA in 2007 as an ASLA DEVCO Project Manager. Her project management role involves a fair bit of travelling (30 000 to 40 000km annually) between municipal housing projects where ASLA DEVCO acts as...

One of the largest water infrastructure development projects ASLA Construction has participated in recently is the Ebenhaeser Bulk Irrigation Revitalisation Project, for which it undertook two contracts. The first contract, undertaken for the @Department of Rural...

Alida Bruwer, completed her BEng Civil Engineering degree at The University of Pretoria in 2015 and joined the ASLA Construction: Civils team in 2017. Her current responsibilities include contract administration and quantity surveying for several civil construction...

“I remember the braais at head office, where everyone used to fit under the parking afdak,” says junior contracts manager Francois Jooste. “Today I meet people on site that I’ve never met before, and it’s nice to know the company is growing, and things are moving...

Western Cape based ASLA specialises in offering clients design and construct solutions and has, for the past fifty years, been delivering quality construction projects across the Western, Northern and Eastern Cape Provinces. During its five-decade journey the...

Irma Cloete from St Helena Bay has worked in the construction industry since 2005, and after finishing her NQF 5 she started as a survey assistant on site. She worked her way up to surveyor position, and in 2018 she joined ASLA Construction: Civils, where she is...

Building a brighter tomorrow and providing #DignityThroughInfrastructure. Every year ASLA awards bursaries to qualifying individuals studying Civil Engineering, Construction Management and Quantity Surveying or a B-Tech at a Cape-based institution, such as...

Construction Manager S’koko Matshaya was born and raised in Elliotdale in the Eastern Cape – in his words “the poorest town in the poorest province” – and is the fourth of six children. His parents, both teachers, were able to provide for the family, including...

Shon Lungisa Cabanga hails from De Doorns in the Western Cape and has been with ASLA, where he works as a Quantity Surveyor, for five years. He is currently based at the Sir Lowry’s Pass Village site, where the company is constructing a City of Cape Town development,...