KNIGHT PIESOLD
Mechanical Engineering in Phalaborwa

Knight Piésold is an employee-owned global consulting firm that provides specialized services to the mining, power, water resources, infrastructure, and oil and gas industries. We are engineers, environmental scientists, geoscientists, and technologists who focus on creating value at every stage of a project through quality driven, sustainable, and cost-effective solutions. Established in South Africa in 1921, we have expanded our reach into a global network of over 750 professionals based in offices in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia. By developing close working relationships and focusing on the specific and unique needs of each one of our clients, we work together to understand each project and business in today’s global environment. With a commitment to quality, safety, and technical excellence, Knight Piésold specializes in creating tailored solutions at every stage of a project life cycle while delivering sustainable bottom-line results. We have led numerous award-winning projects to completion, and have fostered many long-term client relationships that still hold strong today. Our mission is to build permanent relationships with reputable clients through world-class engineering, scientific, and management services that provide innovative solutions, the highest caliber of services, the best quality of product, the greatest efficiency, the finest technical expertise, and the maximum value for their investment. At Knight Piésold, we understand that each project is unique. From drilling in permafrost to finding groundwater in the desert, we look for creative ways to overcome all challenges. Our experts in engineering, environmental services, geosciences, and management and testing work together to provide you with the right solutions tailored specifically for your project. Engineering scoping, pre-feasibility, and feasibility studies. South African Association of Consulting Engineers: Awards for Excellence in Consulting Engineering (special recognition award in civil engineering including related structures), Katse Dam, Lesotho. Knight Piésold re-established in the UK as Knight Piésold Limited with an office in London, focusing on natural resources and engineering projects in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Central and Eastern Asia. Offices were later opened in Ondangwa in 2009 and Keetmanshoop in 2014, extending Knight Piésold’s reach in the country’s central northern and southern regions. A Global Operating Committee was established to coordinate operating companies and partnerships in South Africa, Swaziland, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, UK, Australia, Canada, USA, and Malaysia. Knight Piésold & Co. was established in Denver, USA. RB (Bruce) Knight, who had originally worked for the company in Rhodesia and moved to Canada in 1964 to work on the Mica Dam, established an office in Sydney, Australia. The Harare (then Salisbury) office moved to London, and later Ashford, Kent, in the UK to continue work in newly independent African countries of Botswana, Swaziland, Zambia and Malawi, and later in Kenya. Dr. HLB (Hans) Uhlmann joined the partnership with special expertise in the structural and thermo-dynamic design of natural draught cooling towers. Projects in Central Africa included the hydroelectric developments at Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River and at Nkula Falls on the Shire River, the outflow from Lake Malawi. TC Watermeyer assumed the running of the company and was faced with the challenge of post-war staffing problems and the expansion of municipal and ESCOM thermal power stations in Southern Africa. TC (Tom) Watermeyer became a partner and the company became FE Kanthack and Partners. The principal areas of expertise were in water resources, natural draught cooling towers, thermal power stations, and hydroelectric power stations in Southern Africa. At the age of 49, he decided to set up as a consulting engineer, operating as a sole practitioner as FE Kanthack.