About Our Team
Dirk Marais Oosthuizen
B.Tech Chem Eng (Chem Eng) (Univ of Tech) TASA075; Carbon Footprint Analyst PNo.0110
Dirk Oosthuizen founder and director of NESconsult and Associates has been intrigued at early age by engineering aspects and revolutionary ideas for problem solving of high altitude wild flower farming and veld firefighting techniques by his late father, Japie Oosthuizen in the little town of McGregor in the Boland. Dirk enjoyed leadership and creative problem solving opportunities from a young age and really only established a love for Chemical Engineering after he left school and served in the defence forces where he was exposed to high intensity and explosive situations at a noticeably young age. After he completed his Chemical Engineering Studies his, employment in Denel’s Pyrotechnic division Swartklip, exposed him to R&D and QC aspects including high temperature reaction studies and triggered the product and business development skills of a true entrepreneur, by investigating and performing early product development feasibility studies on numerous proposals. The urge to consult and advise other to excel became a natural outcome of his consulting principles as he started his consulting career in CNCP cc in 1995. As a Chemical Engineering council member, and as one of the founders of The Thatcher’s Association of South Africa the importance Fire Safety allowed him to consult on various Fire Safety and Rational designs for customers all over South Africa. High risk Heritage structures and Green building procedures provided an outcome for his skills on energy emission and embodied energy calculations and process mass balance consulting. His recent qualification as a Carbon Footprint Analysist and a SETA accredited IEMA and Carbon Foot print tutor, provided him with consulting expertise to forecast carbon emissions on products and processes, attempting to influence associates and clients to not only reduce carbon emission but “to follow the carbon emission to see where your and your organizations money is going”. The EPD’s and the extent of the carbon footprint that we are leaving behind now form the integrated consulting package to his clients and students with the cutting edge of creative sustainable technology. This included in his work ethic’s, reflects his keen interest to prepared and support other to achieve higher goals for the communities they serve with a sustainable and Natural Engineering Solution.
WN. Esterhuizen
Pr.TechEng(ECSA) NHD.Eng (Struct,Civil) (Univ of Tech), CPM, MNHBRC, MSAISC Professionally Registered at E.C.S.A
Patrick Lynch
B.Sc Mechanical Engineering (Wits, 1998); B.Com (Unisa, 1992)
Goverment Certificate of Competency for Factories
His experience is in thermosetting resins in the manufacturing of Melamine work surfaces, Ply Wood, Chip Board, Polyester Work Surfaces.
Experience in the cement industry formulation and packing of Tile Adhesives.
Experience in machine design and manufacture is in material handling systems, press line layout and equipment for mixing and bagging of powders.
Suzanne Lambert
MSc. Civil Engineering (University of Cape Town); BSc. Civil Engineering (University of Cape Town)
She finished her master’s in civil engineering with a focus on wastewater and material engineering. She has been with NESconsult since March 2020 and offers structural and wastewater design consulting services, using the framework of making carbon negative and sustainable solutions. At NESconsult she has worked on and aided in the design of filtration rainwater tanks, modular toilet units and backend wastewater filtration systems (Dewdrop).
Evral Ntsa
MEng & BTech Chemical Engineering (CPUT), Fire structural Engineering (University of Stellenbosch: 2CPD, 536/86684): ECSA Registered
Managing of research and testing lab, Fire lab department, (fire testing of newly developed construction materials) and internal & external quality control. He is also responsible for waste vaporization process in chemical and civil engineering domain, where he works in various roles and capacities including research and development of the process at the lab, industrial-scale up, and quality control assurance at industrial scale on various projects.
His passed works were focused on the development of a low carbon and negative carbon cementitious binders and concretes respectively, being industrialized at the production of 72 panels production of 2400x 800x150mm per days and ensured its quality from the raw material to the final product, development of urine content organic fertilizer process, development of low cost and fewer chemicals cellulose fibers for sanitary tower production, development of less carbon emitted biochar process using pyrolysis system and its production, development of plastic derived oil trough pyrolysis system.