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Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment
Departmental Statistics
Permanent and Long-Term Contract Staff
Professors
4
Associate Professors
7
Senior Lecturers
3
Lecturers
1
Research Officers
3
Technical Support Staff
6
Administrative Support Staff
7
TOTAL
31
Emeritus and Honorary Staff
Emeritus Associate Professors
4
Honorary Research Associates
3
TOTAL
7
Students
Doctoral
22
Master’s
188
Undergraduate
425
TOTAL
635
Research Fields and Staff
Permanent and Long-Term Contract Staff
Professor Mark Alexander
Concrete durability and deterioration; concrete materials;
concrete service life; sustainability of concrete construction;
applications to structural design and construction.
Associate Professor Neil Armitage
Urban water management including: Water Sensitive Urban
Design (WSUD), Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) and
the provision of water services to informal settlements.
Associate Professor Roger Behrens
Activity-based travel analysis; local movement network
configuration and management; non-motorised
transportation; policy analysis in the fields of urban
passenger transport; land use-transport interaction.
Associate Professor Hans Beushausen
Concrete materials; structural engineering; repair of
concrete structures.
Dr Kirsty Carden
Urban water management; sustainability assessment;
integrated approaches geared towards sustainable urban
development and water sensitive cities.
Mr Michael Champanis
iCOMMS: Information for Community Oriented Municipal
Services. Role of ICTs in water service delivery and
management.
Ms Fariidah Chebet
Geotechnical engineering
Professor George Ekama
Chemical and biological wastewater treatment; physical
and biological process modelling.
Dr Denis Kalumba
Geotechnical engineering: Ground Improvement, Waste
Minimisation, Foundations/Soils Interaction, Electrokinetics,
Geosynthetics, and Soil Remediation
Professor Pilate Moyo
Structural health monitoring and testing.
Associate Professor Ulrike Rivett
iCOMMS: Information for Community Oriented Municipal
Services. Role of ICTs in water service delivery and
management.
Mr Herrie Schalekamp
Road-based public transport policy and regulation;
institutional and operational reform processes in passenger
transport systems; qualitative methods of investigation in
the transport arena
Dr Sebastian Skatulla
Multiscale Methods; Biomechanics; Electromechanics;
Meshfree Methods; High-Performance Computing.
Associate Professor Marianne Vanderschuren
Assessment of urban transport systems; urban transport
decision-making; transport policy.
Associate Professor Mark van Ryneveld
Urban Engineering
Associate Professor Kobus van Zyl
Hydraulics; urban water management; water demand
analysis; distribution networks.
Ms Nicky Wolmarans
Academic development; teaching and learning; mechanics
of solids.
Professor Alphose Zingoni
Shell structures; space structures; structural mechanics;
applications of group theory; finite element modelling;
vibration and structural dynamics; structural analysis and
design.