PRO Aurecon

Version 06/2015

Table of Contents

Introduction

Transformation Overview

Preferential Procurement

Enterprise Development

Corporate Social Investment

Aurecon’s BBBEE Status

Awards and memberships

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INTRODUCTION

This PRO Aurecon document summarises Aurecon’s progress and achievement with regard to transformation, human resources development, preferential procurement, enterprise development and corporate social investment.“ ”

• The PRO Aurecon slideshow provides an overview of the progress and achievements of Aurecon South Africa with regard to transformation, human resources development, preferential procurement, enterprise development and corporate social investment.

Welcome to the PRO Aurecon presentation

Lulu GwagwaChairperson of the Board of Directors ofAurecon South Africa

*Aurecon South Africa (Pty) Ltd.

TRANSFORMATION OVERVIEW

At Aurecon, transformation encapsulates positive change in cultural diversity, including race and gender, throughout our company. PRO Aurecon is a corporate citizenship programme that encompasses aspects of transformation such as BBBEE, skills development, preferential procurement, and Aurecon Cares CSI initiatives.

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• Aurecon continues to lead the industry, having pioneered the process of transformation and the deracialisation of South African businesses with our first empowerment transaction in 1995.

• In FY14, equity ownership by Black employees and investors encompasses 39.73% of the global economic benefits of all Aurecon’s Africa and Middle East interests.

Equity ownership

• The Board consists of six members, of which three (50%) are Black, two of which are women.

Management

• Currently, three members of our RSA Management Team are Black.

Management (continued)

On 30 June 2014, Aurecon South Africa employees were made up of:

Employment Equity

Diversity forumAurecon has consciously created a diversity forum to recognize and enhance the wealth that comes from diversity within Aurecon.

Aurecon Women. Achieving Women.A key component of Aurecon’s gender diversity programme, ‘Aurecon Women. Achieving Women’, was developed to contribute to the attraction, development, motivation and retention of women at Aurecon.

Employment Equity (continued)

HUMAN

RESOURCES

DEVELOPMENT

The very future of our business relies heavily on the education and skills of our employees.“ ”

• Aurecon South Africa’s comprehensive skills development plan complies with both the spirit and requirements of the South African Skills Development Act of 1998.

• The plan is submitted for approval to the Construction Education and Training Authority (CETA) on an annual basis.

• Approved quality assurance procedures are followed in the development and implementation of this plan.

• Aurecon South Africa invests some R49 million in skills development annually.

Skills Development

Training

Skills Development (continued)

Additional training initiatives:• Aurecon Campus• Limelight

• Aurecon Campus

Skills Development (continued)

Aurecon Campus is a platform that encompasses all of the professional skills learning that Aurecon has to offer. In contrast to our technical skills, professional skills focuses on the broad range of skills required to succeed in a professional services consultancy and the training that we offer is designed to complement the technical offering.

To simplify the curriculum framework, the offering has been organised into seven key course streams which are colour coded accordingly.

• Limelight

Skills Development (continued)

Limelight is Aurecon’s network of young professionals who are committed to growth within their career, within their industry and within the communities that their industry impacts.

“Limelight encourages young professionals to share ideas and knowledge and provides them with a platform to grow through collaboration and interaction.”

- Sibongile Vilakazi

“Being part of Limelight has created the platform for me to not only strengthen my technical skills and knowledge but it has also given me the opportunity to form positive working relationships within Aurecon and to give back to various communities through Corporate Social responsibility initiatives.”

- Dimitri Sarjoo

Education

Skills Development (continued)

• Bursary Programme

Aurecon has been investing in its own in-house bursary programme for more than 30 years.

Students and staff from UCT and Aurecon at the UCT/Aurecon post-graduate bursary function

Left to right: Leighton Leukes (MEng Student - Structures); Janina Kanjee (MScEng Student - Structures); Professor Francis Petersen (Dean of the Faculty of Engineering & The Built Environment); Albert Geldenhuys (Managing Director, Aurecon South Africa); Mpafane Deyi (PhD Student - Water); Professor Alphose Zingoni (Head of Department of Civil Engineering)

Skills Development (continued)

The group’s postgraduate bursary programme includes donating R400 000 each year for BBBEE postgraduate studies in civil engineering at two universities – the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Stellenbosch University.

Education

Skills Development (continued)

• Student technicians

• Aurecon is addressing the challenge of supporting staff throughout their career with an in-house mentoring programme.

• We have invested extensively in our mentoring programme, which contributes to our status as a Leading. Vibrant. Global company.

• The programme is designed for both the professional and personal development of young professionals.

Mentorship Programme

• The programme has achieved recognition at the Consulting Engineers South Africa’s Glenrand M.I.B. Engineering Excellence Awards in 2010, where Aurecon won the Mentoring Company of the Year award.

• Aurecon has 36 mentors and 54 trained mentees.

PREFERENTIAL

PROCUREMENT

Aurecon is committed to supporting the growth of Black enterprises by providing opportunities for these enterprises to increase their economic output.“ ”

• Aurecon is not a capital-intensive operation, therefore the bulk of its procurement spend encompasses the procurement of intellectual capital from contract workers and/or sub-consultants on a project-to-project basis

• We maintain a policy of increasing our procurement with Black suppliers and especially Black-owned entities

• Currently 82.48% of Aurecon’s procurement spend is on Black suppliers and service providers

Introducing some of Aurecon’s Preferential Procurement suppliers:

ENTERPRISE

DEVELOPMENT

Aurecon focuses on accelerating the development of organisations through business relationships that will facilitate operational sustainability. “ ”

Enterprise Development activities

during FY2014

• Aurecon assisted with mentoring and coaching enterprise development beneficiaries. Aurecon also provided financial support to the value of more than R7 million to some SMME’s through Cadiz.

Aurecon focuses on accelerating the development of organisations through business relationships that will facilitate operational sustainability.

CORPORATE

SOCIAL

INVESTMENT

Our contribution to society is shaped by our values.“ ”

• Corporate Social Investment (CSI) is a key element of PRO Aurecon. Aurecon encourages all of its people to embrace the philosophy of giving back to the community.

• Many of our professionals are proactively involved in our multiple Corporate Social Investment (CSI) initiatives.

• This aspect of Aurecon’s culture has become a hallmark of our operation and a catalyst for even greater change in countries around the globe.

• In order to encourage staff in South Africa to become directly involved in community support and development projects, we instituted Aurecon Cares initiatives.

• During the FY14, Aurecon contributed more than R3 million in donations and employees’ time to Aurecon Cares.

Motivating young cyclists

…our involvement with Songo.Info has involved both financial support for this charity as well as the mentoring of young riders on road cycling skills, etiquette, nutrition and assistance with planning their future in road cycling.

Bringing Christmas cheer to the sick

…hosting a Christmas Party for the sick. Aurecon shared love, laughter and gifts with sick children at the Steve Biko Hospital, who were due to spend their festive season in hospital.

Aurecon staff cycling with a group of children in Cape Town

Aurecon Cares Christmas event at the Steve Biko Hospital

Sharing smiles with the elderly

…spreading hope at an old age care centre. Aurecon donated gifts, groceries and essentials for the elderly pensioners from Brits, who have no homes or family relatives.

Planting trees of life

…visiting a rural shelter for orphaned children affected by and infected with HIV. Aurecon contributed by planting trees and refurbishing the Emthanjeni children’s home.

Reka Kgona Old Age Care Centre at Brits

Tree planting at the Emthanjeni children’s home

Empowering the youth at Nellmapius

…visiting the youth of an informal settlement. Aurecon’s young professionals visited the young children from the community and provided them with motivation and encouragement, together with groceries and hygiene essentials.

Learners shadowing professionals

…providing young learners with the opportunity to shadow engineering professionals, Aurecon hosts multiple Job Shadow Days across its regions in South Africa. Learners spend their day gaining first hand experience from professionals in their future career fields.

Nellmapius youth outreach

Job Shadow Day event

Encouraging young schoolgirls to aim high…

Aurecon regularly hosts ‘Take a girl child to work’ days across its offices in South Africa to motivate young learners to set goals in pursuing higher education and empowering careers.

Aurecon assists maths boffins

…by supporting the University of Cape Town’s Mathematics Competition by donating towards transportation to the event. 395 participants were transported from Khayelitsha, a partially informal township located on the Cape Flats in the Western Cape.

‘Take a girl child to work’ day at Aurecon’s Tshwane office

University of Cape Town’s Mathematics Competition

Empowering young learners to pursue careers in Science, Engineering and Technology

…covering the cost of tuition fees, learning support material, travelling and catering for Grade 11 learners in Learner Excellence Programmes provided by PROTEC (the Programme for Technological Careers) in Gauteng, Free State and Eastern Cape. The programme has proven to be immensely rewarding, considering where we started. The latest round of results received from matric students involved in this programme since Grade 10 through our sponsorship yielded a 98% pass rate, with 70% passing with matric exemption. Aurecon couldn’t be more proud to be involved in such a worthy initiative.

Supporting Learner Excellence Programmes from PROTEC

AURECON’S

BBBEE STATUS

Aurecon South Africa has been certified as a Level 2 BBBEE contributor.“ ”

Aurecon South Africa (Pty) Ltd has been certified as a Level 2 BBBEE Contributor.

AWARDS

Aurecon’s transformation achievements have been recognised by industry.“ ”

Awards and memberships

Industry rankings/listings:

Industry awards:

Aurecon has been adjudicated as one of South Africa’s top empowered companies by the publication Impumelelo

Finalist, 2011 Metropolitan Oliver Empowerment Awards (Basic & General Industries category) for outstanding achievement as a top empowered company in its sector; and for outstanding contribution to the growth and sustainability of the South African economy

Winner, 2012 CESA/Glenrand M.I.B. Engineering Excellence Award for Mentoring Company of the Year

Awards and memberships

Member of EthicsSA: Aurecon’s Code of Conduct and Ethics sets out the company’s commitment to working with stakeholders in all industries to promote ethical practices and procedures. In line with this, Aurecon has continued its stand for ethical business by becoming a member of The Ethics Institute of South Africa (EthicsSA), a nonprofit, public benefit organisation founded with the vision of building an ethically responsible society.