Welcome to our newly designed website and the first of my monthly newsletters. In the first five months of 2024, I can proudly state that we have seen month on month growth with some of our longstanding client’s extending our project scope, in addition to onboarding additional water treatment facilities projects whilst upscaling our mining reach in Zambia as well as adding to our list of serving premier mining multinationals. Together this has increased our status as the African project planners of first choice and our mounting recognition for providing generative AI and technology systems-based approach to project controls; offering customised, cohesive and comprehensive suite of services throughout the project lifecycle. To this end in May, we have entered into an agreement with the United Kingdom (UK) based Nodes and Links enhancing our AI capabilities and capacity. Together we will set the standards and be the benchmark for utilising technology in project controls and planning for improved client effectiveness and significant cost efficiency.

Earlier this year I led a team to exhibit together with our partner PaCE at the Project Controls Expo in Dubai exploring enterprise opportunities and extending our network as we prepare to jointly expand our operations specifically in Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. This is an open invitation for potential clients and collaborators to open a dialogue for mutually beneficial interests. On our research hub of excellence side coupled to our developmental project work in February one of our Directors, Michelle Beeslaar, presented at a British Academy funded conference in Nigeria and last month a book she contributed to – Women and Finance in Africa: Inclusion and Transformation – was published and availed for purchase by Springer. Looking ahead, we are presenting through a collaboration with African Women in Mining South Africa (AWIMSA) at the Project Management Institute – South Africa (PMI-SA) Summit; whilst preparing to present and exhibit at the largest Project Controls Expo to date at Wembley Stadium in London, UK.

I encourage you to sign-up to the receive this monthly newsletter to stay abreast of our activities, achievements and areas for collaboration. I personally undertake that your information will not be shared with a third party and will only be used by Faolan Consulting for contact with subscribers whose information will be strictly confidential in line with the Protection of Personal Information Act, in compliance with South African law where we are registered. Additionally, please follow us on Facebook / Instagram @faolanconsult and on Twitter @FaolanProjects. Furthermore, you are welcome to email me to open discourse electronically and where appropriate set up online or in-person conversations on bringing us onboard as (sub)contractors or entering into strategic fit-for-client alliances.

Until next month, best regards.
Morne JF Beeslaar, Managing Director