About

Wouter Engelbrecht, managing director of NWE founded a consulting engineering company in 1989, trading as Wouter Engelbrecht (Pty), in Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa. He retired as chairperson of the company in 2001 to operate as a developer.

Building on his career as natural leader and bold entrepreneur, Wouter re-enter the consulting engineering industry in November 2003. NWE Consulting Engineers was established with offices in Cape Town operating as a multi-disciplinary Consulting Engineering Firm in the fields of civil, structural, mechanical and electrical engineering.

In the past 15 years of NWE’s existence, we have grown into the consulting engineering disciplines of roads & transportation, dam & hydropower, mine related infrastructure, project management and additional project support services that gives our clients the advantage of finding all the engineering services they need in one place.

Although a relatively young group of entities, the extensive experience of the senior engineers of NWE gained while working for some of the largest Consulting Engineering Companies in South Africa has assisted in establishing a reputation of excellence.  Our team of experts has played a major role in establishing NWE as a fast growing, dynamic and notable role player in the consulting engineering industry on the African continent.