2. Family owned, Goss & Balfe was founded by two young aspiring
entrepreneurs in October 1974 and has experienced continued
growth ever since. With an engineering focus, we specialize on
the upgrading and maintenance of plant and equipment,
installation of new equipment, materials handling within the
Chemical, Petrochemical and Mining Industries.
Since inception Goss & Balfe has earned a reputation for their
high standards of quality workmanship accompanied by the
management skills necessary to sustain and develop those
standards. Our belief is that the key to the maintenance of
those high standards lay through the continued education,
advancement and general well being of all the members of our
business.
The share ownership in Goss & Balfe ispresently
in the hands of P.D Goss, K. Kearns, M. Goss,
GBW Investment Company and Social Trust.
Introduction to Goss & Balfe
3. SAFETY OFFICERS
E. SHAM
W. SAUNDERS
W. NAIDOO
R. MOOLMAN
DIRECTORS
K.B. KEARNS
M. GOSS
M. MABASO
PA
A. LOCKEM
MANAGING DIRECTOR
P.D. GOSS
QC INSPECTORS
Z. GOSS
AM. HODNETT
N. MULLER
QA MANAGER
B. LIEBENBERG
WORKSHOP / QUALITY
MANAGER
S. KEARNS
DEBTORS /CREDITORS
ADMINISTRATOR
S. NAIDOO
CONTRACTS ADMINISTRATORS
A. STEWARD
I. RANDEREE
R. TRAILL
N. GRAZIANI
N. MCSHANE
HR &
PROCUREMENT
S. ABDUL
CONTRACTS ADMINISTRATION
MANAGER
N. JONES
PROJECT / CONTRACT
MANAGERS
G. THOMAS
D. HODNETT
B. KEARNS
L. BRUNI
SITE MANAGERS
E. HOUGHTON
C. JASSON
G. TITUS
R. VAN NIEKERK
A. JANNEMAN
AP. HODNETT
FINANCIAL MANAGER
S. RAGHOO
COST
CONTROL
R. DAIWOOD
PLASTICS DIVISION
M. DAWOOD
WORKSHOP
SUPERVISORS
R. ROBERTS
C. STALLS
MATERIAL CONTROL
C PEARSON
MANAGEMENT ORGANISATION
HSE MANAGER
W. CRAGG
4. OUR VISION
Our vision is to become a market leader in
our niche of the industry by focusing on the
specific needs of our Clients as well as
ensuring the well-being and development of
our most valuable asset, our workforce.
To achieve our vision we ascribe to the
highest values of ethics and integrity in
attempts to instill these within and beyond
our workforce.
We wish to become partners in growing
South Africa to further development of this
great continent.
5. ONGOING PROJECTS
We are constantly engaged in multiple contracts,
including major contracts at the SAPREF Refinery,
plan, prep and execution of various shutdowns and we
have recently completed upgrades for Transnet. We
have successfully completed and are currently working
on Petro Chemical projects in Mozambique.
Goss & Balfe are accepted as a preferred vendor for
Bateman, Fluor S.A, Foster Wheeler, Sasol, Bosch
Projects, and Kantey & Templar. We have completed
multi-million Rand projects over the years for these
managing contractors. The completion of the
Uranium One Project for Bateman Engineering
identified Goss & Balfe as a Quality orientated
company capable of producing quality work on time.
7. Completed contracts
Contract Title Description of Works Details of work content Contract Period Value
Country where
work performed Contact Details
Aflease Uranium Contract SMP Contract for Uranium One 1100 Tonnes Steelwork Start: March 2006 R 232 000 000.00 South Africa Mr. D. Jooste
400 Pieces Mechanical Equipment End: October 2007 Klerksdorp Bateman Engineering Projects
Fabrication & Installation of Carbon (011) 899 9000
Steel, Stainless, Duplex, Super Duplex
and Titanium Piping.
Pande Flowline Installation Install Piping Above and Below Installation of 43km's of piping Start: January 2007 R 35 000 000.00 Mozambique Mr. P. Brown
Ground End: December 2008 Temane WK Construction
(011) 206 2000
Transnet Reefer Structures Supply, Fabrication and Erection of 580 Tonnes Steelwork Start: February 2008 R 43 000 000.00 South Africa Mr. G. Clark
60 off Reefer Structures End: October 2008 Port Elizabeth HMG J/V
SAPREF 2009 Turnaround Repairs and replacement of piping Refinery Shutdown - Start: Oct 2008 R 60 000 000.00 South Africa Mr. C. Mensing
& equipment Workforce peak @ 630 DFL & IFL End: Sept 2009 Durban SAPREF
(031) 480 1911
Ambatovy Nickel Project Piping Fabrication for the 30,000 Weld inches Start: Sept 2008 R 17 500 000.00 South Africa Mr. M. Hughes
Ambatovy Nickel Project End: June 2009 Durban Bateman Projects Limited
(011) 899 9000
Waltloo Upgrade Project Mechanical Upgrade of the Installation of mechanical equipment Start: August 2009 R 65 000 000.00 South Africa Mr. R. Poninjhaus
Waltloo Depot of Transnet and piping Complete: October 2011 Waltloo, Pretoria Siemens
Pipelines (011) 652 2484
Langlaagte Upgrade Project Mechanical Upgrade of the Installation of mechanical equipment Start: August 2009 R 55 000 000.00 South Africa Mr. R. Poninjhaus
Langlaagte Depot of Transnet and piping Complete: October 2011 Langlaagte, JHB Siemens
Pipelines (011) 652 2484
2011 Turnaround Repairs and replacement of piping Refinery Shutdown - Start: Feb 2011 R 70 000 000.00 South Africa Mr. C. Mensing
& equipment Workforce peak @ 700 DFL End: October 2011 Durban SAPREF
(031) 480 1911
8. Completed contracts
Contract Title Description of Works Details of work content Contract Period Value
Country where
work performed Contact Details
Oleum Boiler Supply, Fabrication and Installation Manufacture of 1 x Oleum Boiler Start: Aug 2011 R 2 200 000.00 South Africa Mr. R. Tomsett
End: Dec 2011 Durban Chemical Initiatives
(031) 904 9945
Provision of Pipeline Piping Supply, Manufacture, Piping: 5.7km's underground (4"line) Start: 10 Oct 2011 R 11 500 000.00 Mozambique Mr. K. Gibbs
SPI-EP-002-8381 Delivery and Installation of New Above ground flowline @ manifold End: 31 March 2012 Temance Stefanutti Stocks
Boiler compound (031) 700 1416
Hope Bay Gold Project Piping Supply, Manufacture, Piping: 47,000 weld inches Start: 10 Oct 2011 R 33 031 473.16 South Africa Mr. S. Brebnor
M7389-P-X-047 Delivery and Installation End: 15 March 2012 Durban Bateman Engineering Projects
(011) 899-9111
Sasol - Catalyst Plant Piping Piping Manufacture, Delivery Piping: 5,000 weld inches Start: 15 March 2012 R 7 125 340.73 South Africa Mr. F. Botha
26161- C2599 and Installation End: 08 June 2012 Sasolburg Foster Wheeler
(016) 960 5135
BP Project Triumph - Phase 1 Mechanical and Piping Upgrade Civil Start: 26 May 2012 R 74 400 000.00 Mozambique Mr. S. van Zelst
Nacala of the BP Nacala Depot E & I End: 15 September 2012 Nacala Triumph Project Manager (BP)
Tank repairs and 12" pipe-line +258 82 3081305
replacement
SAPREF Multi-Projects Multiple Sapref Contracts Various Mechanical, Structural & Start: January 2009 R 80 000 000.00 South Africa Fluor Igoda
Piping Contracts End: January 2013 Durban Mr. A. Golbaram
(031) 480 1086
BP High Priority Works Tank lining, Demolition of 2 x Tanks, Tank re-lining, Demolition of 2 x Tanks, Start: 26 October 2012 R 24 000 000.00 Mozambique BP
- Phase 1 Rerouting and replacement re-routing and replacement of vent End: 21 December 2012 Beira Mr. T.Mashila
of piping. piping. Triumph Project Manager (BP)
(011) 480 1911
SAPREF 2013 Turnaround Repairs and replacement of piping Refinery Shutdown - Start: February 2012 R 140 000 000.00 South Africa Mr. C. Kolaba
& equipment Workforce peak @ 900 DFL & IFL End: June 2013 Durban SAPREF
(031) 480 1911
9. Current& Completed Contracts
SAPREF Multi-Projects Multiple Sapref Contracts Various Mechanical, Structural & Start: January 2013 R 75 000 000.00 South Africa Fluor Igoda
Piping Contracts End: January 2015 Durban Mr. A. Golbaram
(031) 480 1086
BP IM and Capacity Upgrade to BP Mozambique Tank Floor Replacement and Tank Demo Start: 15 May 2013 R 600 000 000.00 Mozambique BP
Restoration Project Infrastructure and Capacity New Supply Pipe-line End: April 2016 Estimated Beira Mrs. T. Franklin
Civil upgrade to Bunded Area's Nacala Project Manager
E&I upgrade Matola +27833026195
Transnet TM2 Terminal Supply of Pipe Fabrication and Fabrication and erection of 86,000 Start: May 2013 R 63 000 000.00 South Africa Group 5 Construction
Construction Erection Services weld inches End: September 2012 Heidelberg Mr. S. Naidoo
Project Manager
Group 5 Avon & Dedisa Pipe Fabrication Fabrication of 20,000 weld inches Start: April 2014 R 15 000 000.00 Durban Group 5 Project
Fabrication Complete: July 2014 South Africa Mr Andy Stott
Project Manager
Sasol LP Compression Project SMP Works for Sasol LP Compression Installation of Major Equipment Start: April 2014 R 280 000 000.00 Temane Foster Wheeler
c/o Foster Wheeler Project Erection of Free-issue Structural Steel Complete: December 2014 Mozambique Mr Johan Enslin
Fabrication and Erection of Piping Project Manager
Sapref 2015 Turn-around Plan & Prep and execution of the Scoping and Pre- Construction activities Start: June 2014 R 120 000 000.00 Durban Mr. C. Kalaba
Turn2015 -around for SAPREF in progress Complete: July 2015 South Africa SAPREF
refinery (031) 480 1911
Sasol ESE Project Tie-Ins Supply of Pipe Fabrication and Start: December 2014 R 11 000 000.00 Temane Foster Wheeler
c/o Foster Wheeler Erection for Tie-ins Complete: April 2015 Mozambique Mr Craig Mycock
Contracts Manager
10. Our Commitment to Our Clients
Resources
• Ensure that all resources committed to the CLIENT will remain on site for
the duration.
Schedule
• Develop a plan to utilise proper management resources and equipment,
without compromising HSE.
Cost
• Recruitment of a small but sufficient quality workforce to maximise quality
and cost effective attitude.
Quality
• A strong interaction with the Client Inspection Department.
• The placement of an efficient quality management team, ensuring a high
standard of quality.
11. SAFETY COMMITMENT
Health, Safety and Environment
Below are our commitments and main objectives in these areas.
Recruiting labour that have sufficient work experience in the Petro-
chemical environment and are aware of all hazards pertaining to the client’s
project.
Recruiting an artisan workforce that are suitably qualified and competent to
perform the tasks that are required of them.
Planning the job execution to precise detail as to minimise the workforce
numbers, therefore not overcrowding the work areas.
12. Assigning a well experienced and a highly efficient team of supervisors and
foremen to lead the workforce and ensure that all HSE objectives are met.
15. OUR AIM...
AIM
• To achieve and maintain the highest level of Health, Safety and Environment
Performance in all our operations.
GOALS
• To prevent injury and illness to all our employees.
• To minimise the effect of all incidents.
• To institute effective safety control over our sub-contractors.
METHODS
• Training all levels of staff in safety skills from management level to the most
junior employee.
• Implementing a sound formal Health and Safety Policy and procedure.
16. It is our intention with the
assistance of the CLIENT’S HSE
Department and our HSSE
department to develop and
implement Job specific safety,
security, and environmental
criteria and plans.
WORKSHOP SAFETY
OFFICER
PROJECT
MANAGERS
PROJECT SAFETY
OFFICERS
HSE MANAGER
W. CRAGG
WORKSHOP
MANAGER
S. KEARNS
WORKSHOP SAFETY
REPRESENTATIVES
MANAGING DIRECTOR (16.1)
P.D. GOSS
DIRECTORS
M. GOSS
K. KEARNS
M. MABASO
FOREMAN
SITE SAFETY
REPRESENTATIVES
FIRE / SAFETY WATCHES
COMPANY SAFETY
COMMITEE
17. QUALITY ASSURANCE CONTROL
CERTIFICATION / EXPERIENCE
WITH ISO 9001
Goss & Balfe first pursued the ISO
System in March 2000, when we
developed our Quality Manual based
on the ISO 9001:2000 format. We have
continuously been developing and
improving our systems and have re-
structured our manual to comply with
the revised ISO 9001:2008 standard.
We are currently accredited with the
ISO 9001:2008
18. QUALITY ORGANISATION
PIPING CO-ORDINATOR
WELDING CO-ORDINATOR
PIPE-FITTERS
WELDERS
MANAGING DIRECTOR
P.D. GOSS
WORKSHOP MANAGER
S. KEARNS
DIRECTORS
K.B. KEARNS
M. GOSS
M. MABASO
QUALITY ASSURANCE
B. LIEBENBERG
QUALITY MANAGER
S. KEARNS
STOREMAN
QC INSPECTORS
Z. GOSS
N. MULLER
AM. HODNETT
MATERIAL CONTROLLER
C. PEARSON
SITE MANAGERS
E. HOUGHTON
C. JASSON
G. TITUS
R. VAN NIEKERK
A. JANNEMAN
B. AP. HODNETT
FIELD ENGINEERS, SUPERINTENDENTS,
SUPERVISORS
20. CONSTRUCTION ORGANISATION AND RESOURCES
TYPICAL CONSTRUCTION
ORGANISATION CHART
ASSISTANTS
ANICALMECH
VISORSSUPER
MECHANICAL
TENDENTSIPERIN
ASSISTANTS
PIPING
VISORSSUPER
TTERS /PIPE FI
DERSWEL
QC
INSPECTORS
INGPIP
FOREMAN
DOCUMENT
CONTROLLERS
NGPIPI
TENDENTSUPERIN
PLANNER
ADMIN / TIME
CLERKS
HSE OFFICER
SAFETY WATCHERS
ADMINISTRATORS
QS/
SITE MANAGER
QC CLERKS
HEAD OFFICE
BOILERMAKERS
BOILERMAKER
FOREMAN
BOILERMAKER
VISORSSUPER
MAKERBOILER
TENDENTSUPERIN
RIGGER
ASSISTANTS
RIGGERS /
DRIVERS
ASSISTANTS
RIGGINR
EMANFOR
MECHANICAL
FOREMAN
MECHANICAL
TERSFIT
21. WORKSHOP FACILITIES
FACILITIES
Goss & Balfe workshop facility in Springfield Park
with a fully equipped 4000m2 under cover fabrication
facility is used for project specific requirements and is
complete with two overhead gantry cranes with
15Ton capacity.
Including an additional 6000m2 open lay down area.
FACILITY CONSISTS OF:
• Raw pipe lay-down yard with mobile crane
facility.
• Cutting bay.
• Prep and Tacking section.
• Four possible welding lines – six bays per line.
• Lay- down and QA inspection area.
• Completed spool storage with mobile crane
facility.
• Separate stainless steel piping bay. (if required).
• Training centre and skills testing facility.
• Plastics Division for fabrication and assembly.
EQUIPMENT
• Welding bays are serviced by two
overhead cranes.
• Separate welding consumable store.
• Materials control store.
• Shop testing facilities.
• Various welding machines and
equipment
• Cutting and prep equipment.
• All Boiler making machinery such as
guillotines, croppers, bend brakes drill
presses, pipe rollers etc.
• Standby Generator to facilitate power
outages.
PLANT
Ton Tadano crane25 (4 off)
)Ton Galion crane (4 off15
Ton truck c/w hi14 -up (3 off)
Ton truck c/w hi7 -up (2 off)
Mechanical horse
25 Ton low bed trailers (2 off)
EXTERNAL
Grit-blast and paint area.
Transport and equipment repair
workshop.
Inspection Bays.
22. WORKSHOP FABRICATION CAPABILITIES
BASED ON A 40 HR. WEEK NORMAL TIME
SMALL BORE 15NB TO 50NB PIPING
No. of Welders No. of Tackers
Diameter
Inches
Total Diameter
Inches per 8 hr.
Day
Total Diameter
Inches per 40 hr.
Week
Total Diameter
Inches per 10 hr.
Day
Total Diameter
Inches per 60 hr
Week
Total Diameter Inches
per Month working 60
hr/ Week
5 2 24 120 600.0 150.0 900.0 3870.0
10 4 24 240 1200.0 300.0 1800.0 7740.0
15 6 24 360 1800.0 450.0 2700.0 11610.0
20 8 22 440 2200.0 550.0 3300.0 14190.0
30 12 20 600 3000.0 750.0 4500.0 19350.0
LARGE BORE >50NB PIPING
No. of Welders No. of Tackers
Diameter
Inches
Total Diameter
Inches per 8 hr
Day
Total Diameter
Inches per 40 hr
Week
Total Diameter
Inches per 10 hr
Day
Total Diameter
Inches per 60 hr.
Week
Total Diameter Inches
per Month working 60
hr/ Week
5 2 30 150 750.0 187.5 1125.0 4837.5
10 4 30 300 1500.0 375.0 2250.0 9675.0
15 6 30 450 2250.0 562.5 3375.0 14512.5
20 8 28 560 2800.0 700.0 4200.0 18060.0
30 12 26 780 3900.0 975.0 5850.0 25155.0
For Stainless Steels and Exotic Materials use a Factor of 0.7 on the Diameter inches per day per welder.
23.
24. PLANNING SYSTEM AND SCHEDULING
Standard Systems Used:
• Primavera (P6)
• Open Plan
• Microsoft Project
Commitment to Open Plan Professional System.
Commitment to develop Level 4 Plan with the Client.
Progress Tracking System.
25. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS / HR
IR ORGANISATION
BUSINESS GUARDIAN
CLIENT
SUPERVISORS
LABOUR NOMINATED IR
REPRESENTATIVES
GOSS & BALFE
PROJECT MANAGER
MANAGING DIRECTOR
P.D. GOSS
GOSS & BALFE
SITE MANAGER
