Our Multi-Disciplinary Offering.

At EKCON, we unite all our multidisciplinary expertise under one roof. Our services are fully scalable — appoint us for a single discipline or combine multiple areas for a more comprehensive solution. We collaborate seamlessly not only within our own teams but also with external professional partners, ensuring alignment across all stakeholders. This holistic approach simplifies processes, accelerates delivery, and strengthens collaboration.

Structural
Engineering.

Every project has a core team consisting of a project manager, lead engineer, and sustainability or compliance specialist to ensure quality from day one. Mentorship, continuous learning, and sharing knowledge across disciplines are central to how we work.

Mechanical
Engineering.

At EKCON, we provide a wide range of mechanical design solutions—including heating, ventilation, and air‑conditioning (HVAC) systems and specialised medical gas systems—each engineered to meet the diverse requirements of the industrial, commercial, residential, retail, and medical sectors. In addition, we offer dedicated vertical transport solutions, including lifts, escalators, dumbwaiters, and goods hoists, ensuring seamless movement of people and material.

Civil
Engineering.

Roads, water, drainage, sanitation, public infrastructure. We combine normative standards with local insight for projects that work, not just on paper.

Renewable
Engineering.

Wind farms at the core — from design to optimisation. Harnessing clean energy through efficient wind systems, hybrid integration, and data-driven performance. Decarbonisation and sustainability embedded from day one.

Wet
Services.

EKCON delivers smart water solutions—from drainage and pumps to stormwater and water-harvesting systems—ensuring efficiency, reliability, and compliance.

Fire
Services.

EKCON provides complete fire-safety solutions—from sprinkler and reticulation systems to smoke simulations and gas-suppression—ensuring safety, compliance, and reliable performance.

DIRECTOR

Hennie Karsten

PR ENG, B ENG, HONS B.B&A

Hennie Karsten co-founded EKCON Engineers and Project Managers in 1996 and serves as a Director and Mechanical Engineer. With over three decades of consulting experience, he specialises in mechanical building services, rational fire design and project management across commercial, residential, industrial and healthcare projects.

His expertise covers air conditioning and ventilation, fire protection, water reticulation, hospital mechanical services and a wide range of industrial systems. Hennie holds a B.Eng (Mechanical) from the Stellenbosch University and is registered with the Engineering Council of South Africa.