Branch management team member, Lucky Penduka (left) thanking Guillaume de Swardt.
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Guillaume obtained his Mechanical Engineering degree through the North West University in 2019. During his early career at Proconics his experience focused on piping design and pipe stress analysis. Guillaume’s work at ProRisk involves risk-based fire and gas detection mapping and quantitative consequence modelling in the petrochemical environment, so he was well qualified to present on this subject.
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