Overview
Installations built so the certificate can actually be issued.
Electrical work is where corner-cutting is easiest to hide and most expensive to discover. A panel that was never functionally tested, a cable that was never megger tested, a protection setting that was left at factory default — none of it is visible until something trips or, worse, does not trip.
Malanc Projects executes electrical installations across water infrastructure, commercial buildings and industrial plant. We manufacture our own motor control centres and distribution boards, which means the panel arriving on your site has been wired, labelled and functionally tested by the same company that will install and commission it.
Scope of works
What this covers.
Each item is work we self-perform or directly supervise.
- Motor control centres
- MCCs designed, manufactured, wired, labelled, factory tested and installed for pump stations, treatment works, plant rooms and fire systems.
- Distribution boards and reticulation
- Main and sub-distribution boards, LV cable reticulation, cable racking, glanding and terminating to specification.
- Building electrical installations
- Lighting, small power, emergency lighting, essential supplies and distribution within commercial and public buildings.
- PLC programming and controls
- Control logic for pump duty/standby rotation, level control, treatment plant sequences and building services, written and commissioned by our own engineers.
- Instrumentation wiring and loop testing
- Field instrumentation wired, loop tested and calibrated end to end so the reading at the panel matches reality in the tank.
- Standby and changeover systems
- Generator changeover arrangements, essential distribution and load management for facilities that cannot afford an outage.
- Earthing and lightning protection
- Earth mats, bonding and surge protection appropriate to the exposure of the installation.
- Compliance testing and certification
- Insulation resistance, earth continuity, earth fault loop impedance and polarity testing, with certificates of compliance issued to SANS 10142.
- Electrical maintenance and fault finding
- Planned inspection, thermographic scanning and reactive fault finding on LV installations and control systems.
Benefits
Why it matters who does this work.
Panels built and tested in-house
Your MCC is manufactured, wired and functionally tested in our own facility, so it arrives ready to energise rather than requiring rework on site.
Certified to SANS 10142
Installation work is tested and issued with a certificate of compliance by a registered person — the paperwork exists on the day of handover.
Controls written by the installer
The engineer who writes the PLC logic is the engineer who wired the panel, which removes the finger-pointing that usually follows a control fault.
Complete test records
Insulation resistance, continuity, loop impedance and functional test results recorded per circuit, not summarised on a single generic certificate.
Protection actually set
Overloads, earth leakage and motor protection configured to the connected load and recorded — not left on factory defaults.
Labelled and drawn as built
Every circuit labelled, every panel drawn, as-built schematics issued so the next person can work on it safely.
Our process
How we deliver it.
Each stage produces something you can inspect, test or file.
Load assessment and design review
Connected load, diversity, cable sizing and protection coordination checked against the design before any material is ordered.
Panel design and manufacture
General arrangement and schematic drawings issued for approval, then the panel is built, wired and labelled in our workshop.
Factory acceptance testing
Functional testing of the panel before dispatch — every control, interlock and indication proven on the bench.
Site installation
Cable reticulation, racking, glanding and termination executed and inspected against the schematic.
Sectors
Industries this serves.
The same discipline applied to different operating environments.
Gallery
Electrical Engineering on our sites.
Questions
Frequently asked.
Yes. Electrical installation work within our scope is tested and certified by a registered person in accordance with SANS 10142. The certificate and supporting test records form part of the handover pack, issued at practical completion rather than chased afterwards.
Yes, and it is a large part of what we do. We work from the consultant's schematics and specification, issue general arrangement and schematic drawings for approval before manufacture, and offer the panel for factory acceptance testing before it is dispatched to site.
We do both. Our engineers write and commission control logic for pump duty and standby rotation, level control, treatment plant sequences and building services. Because the same team wires the panel and writes the code, control faults get resolved rather than debated.
Usually. We plan the changeover in advance — pre-wiring the new panel, staging temporary supplies where needed, and sequencing the cutover so that the live outage window is as short as the installation genuinely requires. We will tell you honestly how long that window has to be.
Yes, as part of planned electrical maintenance. Thermographic scanning of distribution boards and MCCs under load identifies loose terminations and overloaded circuits before they become failures, and the report tells you which findings are urgent and which can wait for the next shutdown.
Related services
Often delivered together.
Combining disciplines under one appointment removes interface risk.
Electrical Panel Manufacturing
Motor control centres, distribution boards and control panels built, wired and tested to SANS.
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Telemetry & Instrumentation
Remote monitoring, SCADA integration, level and flow instrumentation for water networks.
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Mechanical Engineering
Pump sets, rotating equipment, mechanical installations and industrial maintenance across water, building and process plant.
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Pump Installations
Supply, install, align and commission pump sets — booster, borehole, sewer, dewatering and fire duty.
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