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Frequently Asked Questions

We are encountering frequent blockages in our apartment’s plumbing and drainage systems. Does your company offer services that can rectify this?

Yes. We offer comprehensive plumbing and drainage services, including unblocking of blocked plumbing, drainage, and sewer pipes. We also supply sewer/drain rodding sticks and sani-sticks used in clearing plumbing blockages.

Our home is located in an estate without access to the piped water system. We are considering drilling a borehole or shallow well to meet our domestic water needs. Does SANKOFA offer this service and what would be the procedure for engaging your services?

Yes. We offer water engineering related services for development of self-supply (point-of-use) options such as borehole drilling, shallow well drilling, and rainwater harvesting. In the case of borehole drilling, the engagement procedure for our services begins with a hydrogeological survey to ascertain the presence or absence of groundwater in your land, and to locate the optimal borehole drilling point.

We have a community borehole in our village that has been in use for more than 10 years. Recently, we noticed that the borehole yield has significantly reduced. We would like to establish whether your company can help us restore its functionality.

Yes. We offer borehole rehabilitation services, beginning with borehole camera inspection to inform subsequent actions such as borehole flushing and borehole fishing.

Our residential home keeps getting bloated water bills, for which we suspect presence of pipe leakages after the water meter. We wanted your company to make an investigation and fix any pipe leakages on our water supply system.

We do undertake high billing investigations, non-revenue water management, and active location and repair of pipe/plumbing leakages. In addition to fixing plumbing leakages and pipe bursts, we undertake water audits to advise on water efficient plumbing fixtures.

I am a local farmer into coffee growing and looking at implementing irrigation technologies on my farm. Being an active company in irrigation sector, what potential irrigation technologies would your company advise me to implement.

Each individual farm has its most suited irrigation technologies, based on a number of factors. The possible irrigation technologies we could recommend and implement for your farm include drip irrigation, overhead sprinkler irrigation, and centre pivot irrigation. For farms for which valley dams/valley tanks/water harvesting ponds are the ideal solution, our services include dam excavation, as well as supply and installation of dam liners/pond liners.

What are the main products offered by your company?

Our main products include drip and sprinkler irrigation equipment, rainwater harvesting tanks, HDPE geomembrane dam liners, geotextile fabric i.e. woven and non-woven geotextile fabric, geo grids, gabion baskets, borehole/hand pump spares parts, surveying equipment, construction materials, construction equipment, solar street lights and solar street light poles, submersible water pumps, surface water pumps, HDPE water pipes, borehole casing pipes, steel pressed tank towers, armoured cables, solar water heaters, solar panels, generators, ISSB machines, toxic gas monitoring equipment, and water treatment and purification systems.

What are the main services offered by your company?

Our main services include structural and architectural drawings, land surveys, engineering surveys, topographical surveys, design of solar powered piped water systems, solar street lighting, ISSB trainings, design of solar powered irrigation systems, construction of fish ponds and valley tanks, design of wastewater treatment plants, bathymetric surveys, hydrographic surveys, design of mine tailings facilities, construction of sanitation facilities, hydrogeological surveys, borehole drilling, borehole motorization, borehole fishing, borehole rehabilitation, electrical wiring and lighting installation, electrical transformers, biogas plants, earthworks, civil works, painting works, tiling works, roofing works, culverts, drainage works, swimming pool construction, plumbing works, unblocking plumbing blockages, and repairing leakages and pipe bursts.

There is a consultancy opportunity for design of various international trunk roads and strategic bridges under open international bidding. We would like to join hands with your company and bid for this contract as a Joint Venture. Please let us know if you are open to our suggestion.

We are open to joint project undertakings, depending on the nature of the project. This can take on various forms as Joint Venture (JV), Sub Contractor, Sub Consultant, or Special Purpose Vehicle Company (SPVC).

We have been awarded a project in your country to undertake the design of solar powered piped water supply systems. Given your local expertise, we would like to bring you on board as a sub-consultant for this project. Let us know if this is something that might be of interest to your company.

Yes, we do welcome business opportunities, and are open to taking on such roles of serving as a sub consultant.

Sankofa Consulting Engineers

We are a premier multidisciplinary engineering consulting company based in Uganda. We offer services across a wide spectrum of engineering disciplines, such as electrical and power engineering, water and sanitation engineering, civil and building engineering, surveying and geomatics engineering, mining and petroleum engineering, environmental management, agricultural mechanization and irrigation engineering, among others.

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