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Transportation Planning I Project Management I Development Planning I Engineering, Procurement & Construction Management (EPCM)
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SAFIRI is a Swahili word loosely translated means…
to travel. This symbolizes our ambitions of broadening our company offers and service footprint beyond South Africa and into the beloved African continent.
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MANIFESTO
BUSINESS APPROACH
BUSINESS OFFERINGS
AREAS OF INVOLVEMENT
PEOPLE & SYSTEMS
PARTNERSHIPS
MAJOR PROJECTS PORTFOLIO
OWNERSHIP
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Our Manifesto
At SAFIRI our mission is to provide quality services in strategy, planning, design and management in the transportation planning and built environment.
Our vision for 2020 is to be a leading provider of professional expertise and sustainable solutions in the transportation planning and built environment.
Our work and existence is underpinned by values of: Accountability – by being
responsible and answerable for our actions. Excellence – the quality of what we do
exceeding expectations. Integrity – being principled and ethical. Innovation – always
seeking to break new ground. Respect – consider, regard and value others. Teamwork –working with enthusiasm as a Team in a fun and enjoyable environment
We stand for Delivery, Excellence and Sustainability
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Our Business Approach
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We have a sustained commitment to build human capital both internally within the company and externally with clients and new actors in the sectors within which we operate. This we strive to achieve through the following principles:
• Recognising and building on in-house individual expertise,
• Formalising to varying degrees the harnessing of knowledge through the use of appropriate systems and methodologies,
• Developing knowledge from an individual asset into a corporate organisational one,
• Encouraging the growth of an open corporate culture in which knowledge is viewed as being central to organisational development and to the efficiency of methods of business development.
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SAFIRI partners with clients by understanding their mandates and adapting to their requirements. By so doing, SAFIRI ensures that client objectives are met according to desired specifications and to the clients’ satisfaction. All our business offerings are geared towards delivering excellent outcomes.
Our professional teams recognize the critical links between transportation and the built environment.
We understand that planning and project implementation are key drivers of socio-economic development.
Further, we appreciate and value partnerships as key levers for delivering successful projects.
Our Business Offerings
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Transportation PlanningProject ManagementDevelopment PlanningEngineering, Procurement & Construction Management (EPCM) Research & InnovationPolicy & Strategy Development
Transportation Planning:Through our transportation planning skills, experience and passion, we offer a wide range of focussed solutions to transport challenges across modes i.e. road, rail, aviation & maritime. Our team of planning & engineering experts have developed experience over the years and possess skills in data collection, data analysis, demand modelling, options analysis, optimal plan development and report compilation amongst others. Our specific offerings in this area include:
• Freight & passenger transportation data collection and analysis,• Freight & passenger transportation data modelling (current &
projected),• Traffic & development impact studies,• Crafting of freight & passenger transportation strategies,• Crafting of freight & passenger transportation plans, • Feasibility assessments of proposed transportation improvement
programmes,• Infrastructure & system performance improvement design, • Planning & design of new road, rail, port and airport facilities, • Planning & design of transportation intermodal facilities, • Implementation management of transportation interventions
(projects & services), • Transportation infrastructure & system performance audits,• Performance measurement (monitoring) of transportation
infrastructure & systems.
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Project Management:Our experienced Project Management team helps to improve project performance by providing clients with cutting edge project management skills. We do this by combining strategic commercial thinking with precise, hands-on experience of processes, assets and people. Some of our service offerings include:
• Project management office set up (skills, systems & processes),
• Project audits & readiness assessments, • Effective time, cost, quality, risk, control, change and
stakeholder management system implementation, • Full-scale project management and co-ordination,• Employing our own online project management
software known as SAFIRI Project.Show. This flexible and adaptable tool enables one to capture & upload project information, analyse data, generate project reports and possesses a document library. It also performs administrative functions i.e. generate timesheets, attendance registers, minutes etc.
Development Planning:Our Development Planning Unit seeks to solve problems on a manageable scale so as to uplift and sustain development in targeted areas. The unit provides services to a wide range of social & economic programmes that enable sustainable urban and rural development. The following represent some of SAFIRI’s expertise in this area:
• Rapid assessments of challenges in developed areas (urban, peri-urban & rural),
• Community asset mapping, • Geo-spatial mapping of urban & rural assets, • Comprehensive development strategies for towns &
rural settlements, • Guiding processes & systems for effecting change in
urban & rural areas,• Resolution of human and environmental development
challenges,• Decision making tools for policy and programmatic
interventions.
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Engineering, Procurement & Construction Management: At SAFIRI we are passionate about infrastructure development and the role infrastructure can play in the development of our country and its people. We have a multi-disciplinary team of professionals as well as partners that provide solutions to infrastructure development programmes. The specific services in this area include:
• Conceptual, prefeasibility and feasibility studies of proposed projects,
• Infrastructure designs and detail engineering,• Assist project owners procure contractors, construction materials
and equipment,• Project and construction management,• Implementing an effective time, cost, quality, risk, materials
control, change and stakeholder management system,• Reducing project duration and efficient designs through close
alliances with suppliers.
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Research and Innovation:SAFIRI has worked with a variety of clients to deliver research & innovation. We ensure the sustainability of results by providing our clients with the tools, methodologies, skills and behaviours required in major project delivery.
• Primary and secondary research, • Data collection and analysis, • Quantitative and qualitative analysis of research
outcomes,• Process mapping of innovation value chains.
Policy and Strategy Development:Our expertise in policy making emanates from our experience of undertaking rigorous research and evidence-based analysis. Our knowledge brings particular insight to policy concerning the transportation and built environment. We provide strategic advice and research to clients including national government, state owned companies, state agencies, provincial & local authorities as well as the private sector.
Our service offerings include: • Policy, Research and Coordination,• Review of policies and regulations,• Development of policies and policy options,• Monitoring of policy implementation,• Strategic planning,• Review of strategic plans, • Facilitation of strategy sessions, • Development of strategic plans,• Operational planning, • Short, medium & long-term planning, • Support for strategy execution, • Development of tools and templates for strategy
execution.
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The transportation & built environment sectors we operate in cover the full project development cycle. The various elements of this cycle generally call for different skills and expertise from across the transportation & built environment spectrum of professionals.
As SAFIRI, we have taken to mapping the project value chain as we perceive it and then matched our skills and experience against some of these areas. The outcome is the schematic provided below which is a depiction of the project value chain as well as our involvement in it.
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Policy
Strategy
Planning
Design
Implementation
Implementation Management
Operations
Monitoring & Evaluation
SAFIRI’s area of involvement
Our Area of Involvement
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SAFIRI operates in a non-hierarchical project-based approach which is anchored by an integrated and cross functional environment.
We work within well coordinated self-organising work teams.
The SAFIRI environment encourages innovation through imaginative thinking amongst its workforce and strategic partners.
We target the services of smart, creative and development oriented minds which are ready to embrace the exciting challenge of expanding the frontiers of sustainable development application.
Our People & Systems
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SAFIRI has a cost structure that ensures that we deliver excellent products to our clients at a reasonable cost.
We are structured such that we minimize on overhead costs through drawing capacity from a carefully selected network of appropriately qualified and experienced professionals.
Cost structure
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The complex nature of the challenges that characterize the sectors within which we are active, calls for complex approaches. It seems prudent therefore to assemble various minds so as to effectively deal with these challenges. This forms the basis of SAFIRI’s approach which relates to strategic relationships.
We have a variety of partners who we work with in the various assignments that we have undertaken. This ensures the cross pollination of skills whilst ensuring that our team is always equipped with cutting edge tools and solutions.
In addition, these strategic relationships strengthen the institutional capacity of SAFIRI to leverage on industry-specific experience, advanced technology know-how and best practices to ensure that we offer our clients comprehensive business and development solutions.
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SAFIRI has serviced a number of clients some of which are listed here:
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Major Projects Portfolio
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Technical and Secretariat support to the SIP2 Programme Management Unit
CLIENT
Transnet
Durban-Gauteng Transport Corridor: Integrated Freight Plan
Programme Management for the Harrismith Logistics Hub PPP Feasibility Study
Programme Management Unit for the King Sabata Dalindyebo Municipality Presidential Intervention
Socio-Economic Study: research & quantification of economic potential & viability
of Mthatha airport as a gateway to the east of the province
Programme Management Unit for the 2050 Vision for the Durban-Gauteng Transport Corridor
National Department of Transport
Free State Department of Police Roads &
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National Department of Transport
Eastern Cape Socio-Economic
Consultative Counciil
National Department of Transport
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NAME OF PROJECT CLIENT
Baseline Review of the City of Tshwane Bus Services
King Sabata Dalindyebo Municipality Integrated Rural Transport Plan
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality- Integrated Rapid Public Transport Network
Review and Update of Limpopo Freight Data Bank
Development of a Freight Planning Guide for Municipalities
City of Tshwane (Subcontracted to CSIR)
National Department of Transport
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality
Limpopo Department of Roads and Transport
South African Cities Network
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SHAREHOLDING PORTFOLIO
OWNERSHIP
MANAGING DIRECTOR: Mr. Bongisizwe MpondoBSc (Town & Regional Planning) (Hons) - WITS
Equity percentage owned by:
1. Historically Disadvantaged Individuals
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100%
Mr. Mpondo, a Social Entrepreneur, has extensive experience in the fields of transportation planning, development planning, project management and strategy development. Presently Managing Director and founder of SAFIRI (Pty) Ltd, a transportation planning company, he has served in Board positions at the Cross-Border Roads Transport Agency, the Gauteng Transport Management Agency (Freight Transport Expert) and African Tramways. Until recently served as a Non-Executive Director on the South African Airways (SAA) Board.
Prior to venturing into managing his own businesses, he was employed at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR - Transportek), the Gauteng Provincial Government’s Office of the Premier (Director for Growth & Development) and the Road Freight Association (Policy and Regulation Head). Amongst his various activities, he is also a co-founder of the Institute for Transport & Sustainable Development (ITSD) whose major objective is to provide sustainable transport solutions. His portfolio of projects range from Freight & Public Transport Plans, Freight Databanks & Freight Logistics Hubs amongst others. Awards he has received include the 2001 CSIR: Transportek Outstanding Achievers Team Award, the 2002 CSIR: Transportek Young Professional Award and a nomination for the 2003 CSIR Young Professional Award. He is also the co-author of numerous works in the transportation field.
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Email: [email protected]
Web: www.safiri.co.za
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