CESA - Consulting Engineers South Africa

Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) is a non-profit organisation and the ‘Proud Voice of Consulting Engineering in South Africa’. CESA represents for its members, a body that promotes their joint interests and, because of its standing, provides quality assurance for clients. Over 500 firms employing around 24 500 staff are members of CESA, with a total fee income in excess of R20 billion per annum.

CESA member firms offer:

• Adherence to quality management systems, and the basic tenets of commercial viability, on which CESA members' businesses depend, underwrite the quality assurance implicit in membership.
• A commitment to continuous education and to the upliftment of their staff and the communities they serve. Many firms have empowerment programmes, contribute to bursary schemes and assist professionals and construction companies to grow. The Construction Industry Charter is gazetted in terms of Section 9 of Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) ,which informs transformation and is the basis on which public sector procurement takes place.
• Carry a required level of professional indemnity insurance, which provides clients with financial recourse in the event of non-performance, insufficient design, failure or neglect caused by the engineer.
• Implement and maintain an ISO based Quality Management System and the Business Integrity Management System (BIMS) in terms of the CESA Code of Conduct.