WE ARE ONE GIBB
Welcome to the GIBB Group, a proudly South African provider of advisory, infrastructure, engineering, architecture, investment, and project delivery solutions.
We design and deliver complex infrastructure and built-environment projects.
We work across complex environments, combining technical depth, commercial insight and practical delivery to help clients execute with confidence.
Founded in 1956, we remain proudly South African, with 70 years of uninterrupted operations and a proven ability to adapt, endure, and deliver responsibly through changing economic, social, and environmental conditions.
As a dependable, forward-thinking partner to South Africa and the continent, we help clients plan, finance, design, deliver and operate critical infrastructure that supports growth and improves quality of life.
As our markets have evolved, so has our business. Today, our structure reflects the breadth of our capability and the changing needs of clients, partners, and host communities.
Over the past decade, we have grown rapidly, optimised operations, expanded our built-environment advisory capability, and established an investment division focused on rail, power, and water assets. We now operate through two primary divisions—GIBB Holdings (advisory and infrastructure solutions) and GIBB Investments—and we also own, operate, and maintain a portfolio of infrastructure assets.
ONE GIBB is built on partnership — with developers, financiers, government, operators, and communities. Our model is defined by collaboration, co-creation and long-term relationships that improve project readiness, reduce risk, and unlock sustainable value.
FEATURED PROJECTS
FEATURED PROJECTS
Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme
GIBB was appointed to design and monitor the construction of a 1 344 MW pumped storage scheme in the Drakensburg of South Africa. The design and construction included an upper reservoir (50 m high CFRD dam) and lower reservoir (40 m high RCC dam), an underground power house complex, with access tunnels and associated waterways which link the two reservoirs.
Gautrain
GIBB was appointed to be a member of the transaction advisory team for public-private partnerships on the Gauteng Rapid Rail Link Project in Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni.
Nuclear 1
GIBB acted as the Environmental Impact Practitioner in terms of the application for Environmental Authorisation. This included managing the scoping and Environmental Impact Assessment process over a 10 year period, compilation of an Environmental Management Programme, Public Participation process and input into appeal responses.
Cosmo City
GIBB acted as the lead consulting engineer for this project. It entailed the development of a mixed land use integrated township with a proposed 12 300 stands, which targeted low and middle income families.
Green Point Athletics Stadium
GIBB, as part of the Joint Venture responsible for the design and preparation of the stadium for the 2010 World Cup Soccer, was responsible for electrical engineering and lighting design.
Nestlé Gum Factory
GIBB’s tasks included the design and contract administration of the civil, structural, electrical and mechanical engineering.
What We Offer
Help us design the future
Join a collaborative team of experts that thrives on challenge and unconventional thinking. We’re passionate about doing purposeful, sustainable work that helps shape our communities and the future.
Our offices
Acting locally means being present in our communities. With offices in major centres in SADC, West Africa and Mauritius and having worked in more than 20 African countries.
Corporate Social Investment
Social responsibility is an ethical framework and suggests that an entity, be it an organisation or individual, has an obligation to act for the benefit of society at large.
PROUDLY WORKED WITH
AFRICA | THE FASTEST GROWING CONTINENT
AFRICA | THE FASTEST GROWING CONTINENT
GIBB’s reputation as a hub of technological intelligence, along with its professional service and solid track record, has seen the company become increasingly involved in landmark projects across Africa. The depth and breadth of expertise ensures that GIBB is well positioned to provide a variety of engineering solutions to clients through service excellence.
GIBB has developed deep insight into the socio-economic dynamics of several countries on the continent, with completed and on-going projects in South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Dijbouti, DRC, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Zambia.
GIBB is one of South Africa’s leading multi-disciplinary engineering consulting companies with a solid footprint on the African continent. The company is a wholly owned South African entity with a 67% black ownership, with a legacy that spans over 70 years. The company offers design, planning and management services across the entire engineering consultancy spectrum.
