Andre van Niekerk
Director | Land Surveyor
Bachelor of Science (Geomatics), University of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, 2008
CAREER
Andre was born in Bloemfontein and studied land surveying at the University of Cape Town. He gained varied experience with different firms during his articles and registered as a professional land surveyor and sectional title practitioner in 2011.
Andre joined NPM Geomatics in 2012 and became a director in 2015. Andre has previously served on the Eastern Cape Branch of the South African Geomatics Institute (SAGI).
When he is not meticulously checking survey data or preparing for an upcoming survey, Andre is a keen fisherman and busy dad of two boys.
EXPERIENCE
Andre has worked throughout South Africa and has experience in Congo, Tanzania and Mozambique. His work is primarily as a project manager. His focus is on
- Major survey control projects
- Specialist engineering surveys
- Topographical surveys
- Monitoring surveys
- Cadastral surveys
Andre has extensive experience in supervising and preparing surveys which are specified to conform to high order TMH11 standard surveys.
SPECIALISATION
- Project co-ordination
- Resource management
- Large scale topographical projects
- Precise industrial surveys
- Development of a simplified survey specification matrix to assist professionals in the built environment in the compiling of requests for survey quotes
