Services
Engineering Services
Eco Elementum delivers multidisciplinary engineering services for mining, water, infrastructure, geotechnical and environmental projects.
Our capabilities extend from site evaluation and feasibility through detailed design, construction support, operational monitoring, rehabilitation and closure.
Tailings and Mine Waste Management
Mining, metallurgical processes generate significant amounts of mining waste, primarily consisting of waste rock, tailings, and mine water. The storage, disposal, and stockpiling of this mining waste present a critical need for responsible environmental practices while also encountering technical complexities to ensure the safety, efficiency, and purposeful design and operation of such structures. To address these challenges, our team of multidisciplinary professionals, including engineers, geologists, and geohydrologists, is dedicated to assisting our clients in the development of secure, practical, and compliant waste containment facilities tailored to meet their specific requirements.
The services we offer include:
- Site evaluation and selection studies
- Feasibility studies
- Geotechnical and geohydrological site investigations
- Stability and seepage analyses
- Tailings deposition and consolidation modelling
- Mine waste and geochemical characterisation and evaluation
- Water balance and water conservation
- Dam review and inspection
- Dam rehabilitation, design and dam breach studies
- Construction monitoring and quality assurance and compliance
- Operational monitoring and instrumentation
- Closure and rehabilitation design
- GISTM Conformance
- Engineer of Record
- Independent Tailings Review Engineer
- Independent Construction Quality Assurance Services (ICQA)
Environmental Engineering
With the support of our environmental science division, we can provide our clients with comprehensive solutions that address and reduce adverse environmental effects, all while considering the unique budgetary needs of each client.
The range of services offered by Eco Elementum includes:
- Stormwater management plans
- Compliance audits
- Water and salt balance modelling
- Passive treatment systems for AMD (Acid Mine Drainage)
- Designing artificial wetlands
- River diversions
- Pollution control dams and silt traps
- Designing stormwater management infrastructure
- Treatment plant design for dirty water disposal
- Rehabilitation design and financial assessments
- Detailed mine closure design
- Detailed decommissioning closure cost estimates
- Identifying post-closure land use opportunities
These comprehensive solutions cover various aspects of environmental engineering, ensuring effective and responsible management of projects while addressing environmental concerns.
Mining Infrastructure
In order to support our Environmental and Mining Technical Services Departments, we offer additional services in terms of the design of all civil infrastructure, associated with the mining operations.
Our design services in terms of mining infrastructure include:
- Bulk earthworks, terracing and stockpiles
- Haul road design
- Conveyor bridges
- Embankment dams (Category II and III)
- River crossings
- Mine access roads (SANRAL)
- Traffic impact studies
- Pumping systems
- Water retaining concrete structures
- Piperacks and structural steel
- Infrastructure planning and layouts
Geotechnical Engineering
Eco Elementum’s team of geotechnical engineers, engineering geologists as well as mining geologists, ensure we offer our clients practical, cost-effective solutions.
Services and capabilities
- Geotechnical investigations and site evaluations
- Slope stability analysis
- Seepage analysis
- Tailings storage facility design
- Waste rock dump design
- Ground improvement design
- Pile designs
- Dolomite risk assessment
Water Resource Engineering
Services and capabilities
- Mining surface water studies
- Water and salt balances
- Dam break analysis and safety inspections
- Hydrological studies and modelling waste classifications
- Design of pumping systems
- Floodlines
Construction Engineering
Services and capabilities
- Construction management
- Contract administration
- Site supervision and monitoring
- Quality assurance and control
- Engineering procurement construction
Municipal Infrastructure
Eco Elementum’s team has extensive experience in master planning, design project management and site supervision of water-related municipal infrastructure. Our services in the field of municipal infrastructure include:
Sanitation
- Sewer reticulation design
- Sewage pump stations
- Wastewater treatment works
Water Supply
- Bulk supply
- Pump stations and pipelines
- Reticulation design
- Water treatment works
Roads and Stormwater
- Pavement design
- Geometrics
- Traffic studies
- Stormwater management flood hydrology
- Flood line studies
- Stormwater reticulation design
Water Utilisation Engineering
Eco Elementum’s engineering team has extensive experience in planning, design, project management and coordination of large multidisciplinary water, wastewater and industrial effluent treatment plants. Our team has been involved in more than a hundred treatment plant projects. Our services offered in the field of water and wastewater purification include the following:
Services and capabilities
- Status-quo investigations
- Treatment plant design
- Operation review and optimisation
- Environmental authorisations
- Operation and maintenance
- Turnkey solutions
- Treatment Process engineering
Mechanical & Electrical Engineering
We offer a full spectrum of engineering services throughout the various project phases in the mining, dams, hydro, bulk water and water treatment sectors, which include:
The services we offer include:
- Slurry Transfer & Pumping Systems
- Pump stations, pipelines, tanks, and ancillary equipment
- Water Management & Bulk Transfer Systems
- Pit dewatering, underground dewatering, pump stations, pipelines, tanks, and ancillary equipment
- Dust Suppression, Fire Suppression & Evaporation Systems
- Conveyor material transfer, stockpile dust suppression, water evaporation systems
- Water & Wastewater Treatment
- Environmental release and Management, Package treatment systems
- Dams and Hydropower
- Hydromechanical equipment (gates, piping, valves), electromechanical systems
- Bulk Materials Transfer & Handling
- Belt conveyors, vertical conveyors, bucket elevators, screw conveyors, feeders, loading bins, silos, stackers & reclaimer systems, OEM engagements
- Material Dewatering
- Dewatering presses, cyclones, ponds, thickeners
- Underground Backfill Systems
- Rock, hydraulic, and paste backfilling solutions
- Structural Asset & Integrity Management System (SIMMS)
- 3D scanning and heat mapping
- Structural Assessments (on-site and desktop), reporting, and tracking
- Remedial designs and execution works
- Asset Management Services
- Due diligence, quality assurance, condition assessments, status quo investigations
- Project Integration & Management, Execution Support & QC/QA Management
- Full project lifecycle support (scoping to close-out)
- Other Services
- Lifting equipment, HVAC for non-commercial spaces
Our Services
- Status Quo Assessments/ Scoping
- Concept and Feasibility Studies
- Detail Designs
- Equipment Assessments and Audits
- Trade-off Studies
- HAZOP’s
- Lifecycle Cost Analysis
- Throughput Optimisation Strategies
- Quality Control and Insurance
- Due Diligence Studies
- Factory & Site Acceptance Testing
- Construction and Commissioning Management/ Support
- SIMMS
- Lender/ Owner’s Technical Advisory (3rd party) services
- Owner’s Engineer (OE) services
- 3D Scanning, Modelling & Brownfileds Projects
Let’s move your project forward
Partner with a team that understands both the technical and environmental demands of complex projects.