DRA began trading in January 1984. Commencing in the heart of a severe recessionary phase, the intention was to establish a project engineering company with a mining / mineral processing project focus and with an accent on a high standard of engineering competence and a leaning towards the practical application of computer technology to project engineering. Since that time our project company has expanded to its present complement of over eight hundred people.

Fifty members of our staff are registered professional engineers; one hundred and fourteen have BSc degrees, twenty are registered Project Management Professionals (PMP), and the balance of our two hundred and twenty one engineers are all well qualified in their respective positions. The members of the team have all been used to working on large capital projects in the minerals processing fields of coal, diamonds, gold, platinum and base metals. Some engineers have also had experience in the mineral sands, vanadium, steel and gasification industries.

During our existence to date, our rapid growth has frequently involved the need to make 'quantum leaps' in order to accommodate increases in work loading as these have arisen. Generally, our policy, in keeping with general practice in contract engineering, is to build a sound core of senior project personnel and augment these individuals with contract draughting staff. We believe that our high ratio of professional engineers demonstrates this policy. Viewed from the point of view of process, mechanical and electrical engineering staff, we can field an immediate team of considerable competence and experience.

We consider our expertise in the following disciplines to be essential to your project’s success:

• Health & Safety
• Process Engineering & Metallurgy
• Design (Structural, Civil & Piping)
• Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering
• Infrastructure
• Project Support
  (Planning, Cost Estimation, Procurement)
• Construction Management
• Commissioning & Process Optimization