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Staff in the Department of Civil Engineering

Lecturing Staff

Head of Department

PrEng, MEng(Pretoria), PhD(Southampton), FSAICE
 
Office: 11-7 Engineering 1
 
PA: Hayley Boks ([email protected])

 Fields of interest

  • Railways
  • Pavement Engineering
  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Physical modelling
PrEng, MS (NC A&T State Univ), PhD (University of Illinois), MSAICE
 
Office: 13-7 Engineering 1

Fields of interest

  • Pavement engineering
  • Highway and airport pavements
  • Mechanical testing and materials characterisation
  • Imaging-based modelling of crushed stone morphology
  • Forensic investigation and pavement performance
  • Sustainable road infrastructure
  • Low-volume roads
PrEng, BEng (Civil), PhD
 
Office: 12-5 Engineering 1
 
Postgraduate Coordinator

Fields of interest

  • Construction Materials
  • Cement-based materials
  • Fibre reinforced concrete
  • Time-dependant behaviour
  • Environmental Friendly construction materials

 

PrEng, BEng(Civil), BEng(Hons), MEng(Water Resources Eng), PhD (Civil Engineering) MSAICE, MSANCOLD
 
Office: 12-19 Engineering 1

Fields of interest

  • Water engineering
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Fluid-structure Interaction
  • Physical Modelling
  • Hydraulic Structures
  • Spillway design
  • Hydropower generation
  • Flood hydrology
  • Water pipelines and networks
PrEng, MEng, PhD(Surrey), FSAICE
 
Office: 11-18 Engineering 1

   

Fields of interest

  • Geotechnical engineering
  • Geotechnical laboratory testing
  • Geotechnical field testing
PrEng, MEng, PhD(Cantab), FSAICE
 
Office: 11-9 Engineering 1

 

Fields of interest

  • Geotechnical engineering
  • Physical modelling
  • Measuring techniques
  • Centrifuge testing
  • Full scale testing
Ms K Jansen van Rensburg
BEng(Civil), BEng(Hons) 
 
Office: 12-14 Engineering 1

Fields of interest

  • Environmental engineering
  • Construction methods and management
PrEng, MEng, PhD(Leeds), FSAICE, FSAAE
   
Office: 11-21 Engineering 1

Fields of interest

  • Building materials
  • Laboratory testing
  • Measuring techniques
  • Full scale testing
  • Structural Engineering
  • Pavement Engineering
Dr JJ Komba
BEng(Civil), BEng(Hons), MEng(Transportation Engineering), PhD (Civil Engineering), MSAICE
   
Office: 12-19 Engineering 1

Fields of interest

  • Pavement engineering
  • Mechanistic pavement analysis and design
  • Numerical modelling
  • Long-term pavement performance monitoring
  • Road asset management
  • Weigh-In-Motion
PrEng, BEng (Civil), BEng(Hons), MEng, PhD
   
Office: 12-20 Engineering 1

Fields of interest

  • Water engineering
  • Urban runoff modelling
  • Flood estimation

Deputy Dean: Research and postgraduate studies

BSc (Civil)(Dar es Salaam), PhD (Miyazaki)
 
Office: 13-5 Engineering 1

Fields of interest

  • Pavement engineering
  • Mathematical modelling and numerical analysis
  • Physical modelling
  • Full scale testing and instrumentation
  • Geotechnical Engineering
PrEng, BEng(Civil), BEng(Hons), MEng, PhD, MSAICE

Office: 13-12 Engineering 1

Fields of interest

  • Railways
  • Pavement Engineering
  • Geotechnical Engineering
PrEng, BEng(Stell), MS PhD(Cornell), FSAICE

Office: 12-7 Engineering 1

 

Fields of interest

  • Structural engineering
  • Structural reliability
  • Earthquake engineering and dynamic analysis
  • Finite element analysis
  • Mathematical modelling

 

Dr B Plüg

BSc. Eng (Civil), MSc. Eng (Environmental Engineering), PhD (Environmental Engineering)

Office: 12-19 Engineering 1
E-mail: [email protected]

Fields of interest

  • Environmental engineering
  • Wastewater Treatment
  • Water Treatment
  • Water Recovery
  • Waste Management
  • Waste-to-Energy
PrEng, PhD, MEng, CEng, MIStructE, FSAICE

Office: 12-9 Engineering 1 

Fields of interest

  • Structural Engineering
  • Mathematical modelling
  • Steel Design
PhD, BEng(Civil), BEng(Hons), MEng 

Office: 12-12 Engineering 1 

Fields of interest

  • Building materials
  • Pavement Engineering
  • Numerical Modelling
  • Concrete Technology
  • Statistical Design of Experiments
PrEng, MSc.Eng, Dr.sc.ETH Zürich, BEng(Civil)

Office: 12-15 Engineering 1 

Fields of interest

  • Structural Engineering
  • Timber engineering
  • Sustainability in structural engineering
PrEng BEng(Civil), BEng(Hons), MEng, PhD(Civil) FSAICE, MSANCOLD, MWISA

Office: 12-18 Engineering 1 

Fields of interest

  • Water engineering
  • Hydropower generation
  • Free surface flow
  • System optimization
  • Water pipelines and networks
Prof C Venter
PrEng, MEng(Stellenbosch) PhD(University of California, Berkeley), FSAICE

Office: 13-5 Engineering 1 
E-mail: [email protected]

PrEng, MEng(Stellenbosch) PhD(University of California, Berkeley), FSAICE

Office: 13-5 Engineering 1

 

Fields of interest

  • Transportation engineering
  • Transportation planning and data
  • Land use and transport interactions
  • Travel behaviour research, modelling
  • Public transport planning and operations
Dr Y Narainsamy
PrEng, BEng(Pretoria), MEng(Pretoria), PhD(Pretoria), MSAICE

Office: 11-16 Engineering 1 
E-mail: [email protected]

Fields of interest

  • Geotechnical engineering
  • Tailings engineering
  • Laboratory testing of soils

 


 

Research Associates

Dr SA Blaauw

CEng, BEng(Civil), BEng(Hons),MEng, PhD (Civil), MICE

E-mail: [email protected]

Fields of interest

  • Pavement Engineering and Sustainability
  • Construction Health and Safety
  • Built Environment Risk Management
  • Infrastructure climate Resilience
  • Life Cycle Assessments

Dr A Broekman

BEng(Civil), BEng(Hons), MEng, PhD (Civil) 

E-mail: [email protected]

Fields of interest

  • Railway engineering
  • Computational design
  • Automation
  • Internet of Things
  • Instrumentation
BEng(Civil), MEng, MBA, PhD

E-mail: [email protected]

Fields of interest

  • Transport planning
  • Travel demand modelling
  • Choice modelling
PrEng BEng(Civil), BEng(Hons), MEng, PhD(University of Berkeley), FSAICE 

E-mail: [email protected]

Fields of interest

  • Pavement engineering
  • Pavement materials
  • Airfields
  • Roads and runways

Prof G Markou

PrEng (ETEK), BSc, MSc, PhD (NTUA)

E-mail: [email protected]

Fields of interest

  • Finite Element Method
  • Earthquake Engineering
  • Soil-Structure Interaction
  • Modeling of Newly Immersed Materials
  • Retrofitting of Structures
  • Mesh Generation
  • Fluid-structure Interaction
  • Dynamic Mesh Update Techniques
PrEng BEng(Civil), MEng, PhD

E-mail: [email protected]

Fields of interest

  • Pavement engineering
  • Pavement materials
  • Roads and runways
  • Roads rehabilitation

Dr H Sebaaly

PrEng BSc(Civil), MSc(University of Nevada), PhD (UP)

E-mail: [email protected]

Fields of interest

  • Civil Engineering Materials
  • Construction materials
  • Porosity & Permeability


 
 

Support Staff
Mr C Baloyi
Timber Laboratory Assitant
Eng 4.0 Laboratory

Ms H Boks

Personal Assistant to HOD
Office: 11-8 Engineering 1

E-mail: [email protected]

  

Ms M Brink
Eng 4.0 Laboratory

E-mail: [email protected]

Ms V Doman
Eng 4.0 E2-94
 
Mr A Esakjee
Eng 4.0 C1-41

E-mail: [email protected] 

 
Mr K Mokomane
Concrete Laboratory Assistant
Eng 4.0 Laboratory
Mr J Mostert
Eng 4.0 E2-97
E-mail: [email protected]

Ms KL Motau

Office 11-10 Engineering 1
E-mail: [email protected]
Mr R Nchabaleng
Eng 4.0 Laboratory
    
Mr J Ngwenya
Water Laboratory
Mr J Selwadi
Eng 4.0 Laboratory
Ms AC Scholtz
Office 11-14 Engineering 1
Mr J Scholtz
Eng 4.0 E2-98
Ms N Sigenu
Office: 13-6 Engineering
 
Mr JJ Van Staden
Eng 4.0 E2-99

 

Mr F Vein
General Laboratory Assistant
Eng 4.0 Laboratory
Mr LM Mongalo
Room 1-12.12, Heavy Machinery Lab B

[email protected] 


 

Post-graduate Student Offices

Floor 11, Room 15Geotechnical and Structural Engineering 
Floor 12, Room 11Water and Transportation Engineering 
Floor 13, Room 10Railway and Transportation Engineering