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The IMESA Knowledge Base is a central hub for municipal engineering information, offering professionally compiled guidelines, technical documents, and best-practice resources across key areas such as infrastructure, mobility, environment, built form, systems, and strategy. It provides engineers, asset managers, local authority officials, and consultants with easy access to essential content on topics ranging from road and storm water design to solid waste management and energy systems. Designed to support informed decision-making and promote consistency in standards, this comprehensive platform helps improve the planning, implementation, and long-term sustainability of municipal infrastructure projects.
This section focuses on the core civil engineering disciplines within urban and rural environments.
This section covers environmental stewardship, urban cleanliness and structural development.
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| Title | Description | Source | Author(s) | Year | Discipline | Download Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Civil Engineering Works associated with the Installation of Underground Telephone Plant | This specification describes how excavations and back filling of trenches, the construction of manholes, the installation of jointing pits, jointing pillars, street distribution cabinets, underground pipes and the reinstatement of surfaces are to be done. | TELKOM | 2002 | Roads | Download | |
| SMALL COASTAL STORMWATER OUTLETS | This project on compiling guidelines for small to medium sized coastal outlets entails two parts, namely: Phase 1: Literature survey; and Phase 2: Design guidelines (this report | IWEESU/ Stellenbosch University | J S Schoonees and A K Theron | 2017 | Stormwater | Download |
| Visual Assessment Manual for Concrete Pavements | This manual provides guidelines for the visual assessment of rigid paved roads at network levels for use in pavement management systems. Both jointed concrete pavements and continuously reinforced concrete pavements are considered. | SANRAL | 1998 | Roads | Download | |
| Structural Design of Segmented Block Pavements | This document is intended as a complete guideline for the design of segmental block pavements in South Africa. The structural design method may be used for both concrete and fired-clay blocks. | SANRAL | 1987 | Roads | Download | |
| Structural Design of Urban Roads | This document deals with the structural design of paved and gravel urban roads. | SANRAL | 1988 | Roads | Download | |
| Guidelines for the Geometrical Design of Urban Arterial Roads | This document deals with the geometrical design of urban arterials. It forms part of a series on freeways, collectors and arterials. | SANRAL | 1986 | Roads | Download | |
| Best practice Guidelines for the DFE in municipal areas in SA | The requirements for design flood estimation in urban areas are changing largely as a result of the pressure placed on flood | WRC | CJ Brooker, JA du Plessis, SJ Dunsmore, CS James, OJ Gericke, JC Smithers | 2023 | Water | Download |
| Small Coastal Stormwater Outlets- Module 1 | Literature Review & SA Design Guidelines | IMESA COURSE | Koos Schoonees andAndré Theron | 2019 | Stormwater | Download |
| Small Coastal Stormwater Outlets- Module 2 | Literature Review & SA Design Guidelines | IMESA COURSE | Koos Schoonees andAndré Theron | 2019 | Stormwater | Download |
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