Paul Olivier has been elected Managing Director of Jeffares & Green Engineering & Environmental Consulting, from 1 March 2015. He has been with the firm for 30 years.
Olivier graduated from the University of Witwatersrand in 1982 with a B.Sc.Civil Engineering, obtained a Diploma in Business Management in 1987 followed by a Master’s degree (cum laude) from the University of Pretoria in 1990.
In 1993 Olivier was instrumental in forming Dynatest Africa, a specialist pavement engineering and equipment company jointly owned by Jeffares & Green and Dynatest International. He has been CEO of Dynatest Africa since inception.
This was followed, in 1997, by the formation of Specialised Road Technologies, a pavement surveillance and asphalt testing company.
Olivier has gained wide respect for his knowledge of pavement design and materials as well as for the management of pavements in all types of road networks and performance-based contracts. He is frequently involved in investigating the premature failure of pavements and acts as an expert witness in arbitration cases.
On his new position, Olivier comments: “I am looking forward to the challenges in leading our 93-year-old, proudly South African-owned company through the current era of our young democracy, where the need for our services and expertise in developing, rehabilitating and maintaining our infrastructure and protecting our scarce water resources is immense.”
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