Tlou Consulting has a number of functional areas within the company: These include:
Water Resources Planning
- Providing technical and management support on strategic, operational plans to ensure sustainable water resource availability to the sectors
- Conducting recognisance, pre-feasibility & feasibility studies
- Assessment of non-conventional methods of supply management, such as desalination, effluent reuse
Environmental Management
- Critical to ensuring development is balanced with need for green environment
- Undertaking assessment of Ecological Water Requirements and River Health
- Socio-economic impact assessments of development initiatives
Civil Engineering Design
- Carrying out planning & detailed design of civil infrastructure based on LCP
- Project specifications & tender documentation
- Providing construction administration of projects
Water Conservation & Demand Management
- Framework & policy development for improving water use efficiency in the water sector
- Development of strategies and business plans to reduce water losses and manage consumer demands in all sectors (municipal, agricultural, industries, Eskom, mining sectors)
- Implementation of WC/WDM intervention measures
Asset Management
- New focus area in which the Company has developed considerable expertise
- Need for managing existing infrastructure – deterioration of infrastructure
- Client needs to be GRAP compliant & meet PFMA & MFMA
- Compilation of an Asset register incl. field verification & condition assessment (roads & stormwater, water, wastewater, electricity, community facilities, etc.)
- Valuation of infrastructure assets, based on costing models developed by the Company
- Development of Asset Management Plans