About Us
We are UMZ Consulting (PTY) Ltd
A 100% black owned multidisciplinary civil engineering consultancy firm operating across Southern Africa.
Our Mission
To provide innovative and sustainable infrastructure solutions to both public and private sector clients. We offer design and project management services that meet and exceed our client expectations.
Our Vision
To be the best and preferred partner for the provision of Design Solutions, Institutional Support, Project Management and Infrastructure Delivery in the country.
Why Us
We provide technical solutions that are sustainable and meet our customer expectations, underpinned by ECSA-registered professionals and a proven delivery record.
Who We Are
UMZ Consulting (Pty) Ltd is a 100% black-owned, multidisciplinary civil engineering consultancy providing innovative engineering, infrastructure planning, and project management solutions across Southern Africa. Established in 2018 in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, the company was formerly known as Umzuzo Infrastructure and has since evolved into a trusted engineering partner for both public and private sector clients.
Our practice is built on a commitment to technical excellence, innovation, integrity, and sustainable infrastructure development. We deliver a comprehensive range of civil engineering design, project management, and infrastructure advisory services, tailored to meet the unique needs of each client while consistently exceeding expectations in quality, efficiency, and value.
At the heart of our success is a team of highly skilled engineers, technologists, technicians, and project management professionals who are professionally registered with ECSA and affiliated with recognised professional engineering institutions. Our specialists possess extensive experience in the planning, design, supervision, and delivery of transportation, structural, water and sanitation, and municipal infrastructure projects.
By combining technical expertise with a client-focused approach, UMZ Consulting delivers practical, sustainable, and cost-effective engineering solutions that contribute to economic growth and improve the quality of life in the communities we serve.
Professional Capabilities and Technical Expertise
Our greatest asset is our people — a team of engineers, technologists and technicians registered with the Engineering Council of South Africa.
Registered Professionals
Our firm is distinguished by a team of highly qualified and professionally registered engineers, engineering technologists, and engineering technicians registered with ECSA. Our professionals are active members of recognised engineering institutions and professional associations, demonstrating an ongoing commitment to professional excellence, continuous professional development, and the advancement of the engineering profession.
Bridge Infrastructure
We offer extensive experience in the planning, design, assessment, rehabilitation and management of bridge infrastructure across South Africa — reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete, steel, composite and pedestrian bridge structures, together with major culverts and retaining structures. Our bridge specialists are accredited COTO Bridge Inspectors, undertaking routine, principal and special inspections, structural condition assessments, rehabilitation strategies and bridge asset management in accordance with the TMH19 Manual.
Water, Sanitation and Transportation
Our professionals have delivered complex water, sanitation and transportation projects for national, provincial, municipal and private sector clients: bulk water supply systems, water treatment works, pump stations, reservoirs, rising mains and gravity pipelines, wastewater collection and treatment, stormwater systems and municipal services. Our roads and transportation specialists deliver national and provincial roads, municipal streets, rural access roads, interchanges, pavement rehabilitation, traffic engineering and road safety improvements.
Standards and Delivery
Our expertise is underpinned by a comprehensive understanding of South African engineering legislation, design standards and procurement frameworks. We combine sound engineering judgement, innovation, sustainability, digital engineering tools and robust quality management to deliver infrastructure that is safe, durable, economical and fit for purpose.
Through a culture founded on technical excellence, collaboration, integrity and client-focused service delivery, we deliver engineering solutions that enhance mobility, improve water security, strengthen community resilience and support sustainable economic development.
Mxolisi Khaya Ntshangase.
FOUNDER / MANAGING DIRECTOR
Meet Our Founder / Managing Director
UMZ Consulting is under the leadership of its founder and managing director, Mxolisi Khaya Ntshangase.
Mxolisi is Professional Civil Engineer (Structural), has over 15 years of experience in the consulting engineering industry and holds an MBA from GIBS.
His experience includes project & construction management, conducting feasibility studies, and designing a variety of civil engineering infrastructure projects, including bridges, culverts, retaining walls, and building structures. Furthermore, his experience includes asset management which incorporates infrastructure maintenance, conditional assessment of infrastructure, routine maintenance and rehabilitation of drainage structures, and slope stability on embankments and cuttings.
He is also a certified bridge inspector by the COTO, and has conducted conditional assessments of existing infrastructure assets (bridges and culverts) for major clients in KwaZulu-Natal, Free State and the Eastern Cape Provinces. Recently, his responsibilities have expanded to include providing technical and programme management support to government institutions where he is assisting with the successful implementation and management of infrastructure projects.