WBHO runs regional offices rather than a single contact point, and each has its own number, fax, postal address and mailbox. Pick the region the project is in, not the one nearest you.
WBHO regional offices
- Head office, Johannesburg: +27 11 321 7200, fax +27 11 887 4364, [email protected], 53 Andries Street, Wynberg, Johannesburg, 2090, PO Box 531, Bergvlei, 2012
- Cape Town: +27 21 532 5100, fax +27 21 531 8123, [email protected], WBHO House, 9 Logan Way, Pinelands, 7405, PO Box 320, Maitland, 7404
- KwaZulu-Natal: +27 31 714 1500, fax +27 31 569 1272, [email protected], 107 Old North Coast Road, Glen Anil, 4051, PO Box 22428, Glenashley, 4022
- Port Elizabeth: +27 41 398 4600, fax +27 41 360 8962, [email protected], 81 Warbler Street, Cotswold, Port Elizabeth, 6045, PO Box 10189, Linton Grange, 6015
Two divisional mailboxes are published alongside those: [email protected] and [email protected]. Building and civil engineering are run as separate divisions at WBHO, so naming the discipline in your first line saves a transfer.
Plant and services
- Chloorkop, Gauteng: +27 11 265 4000, fax +27 11 265 4088, 245 Mastiff Road, Glen Austin, Chloorkop
- Cape Town: +27 21 692 2660, fax +27 21 692 2610, WBHO Plant Yard, Papkuilsvlei Road, Philippi, 7781
Plant and services is the division that owns and hires out the equipment. If your query is about machinery, a plant hire arrangement or a delivery to site, it belongs here rather than at a regional office.
Outside South Africa
- Kalcon, Botswana: +267 390 9202, fax +267 390 5464, Plot 20714, Western By-pass, Broadhurst Extension 34, Gaborone
- WBHO Construction Ghana: +233 30 80 40 123, fax +233 302 766 706, Plot 73, Second Close, Airport Residential Area, Accra
- WBHO Projects Limitada, Mozambique: +258 21 747 933 or +258 21 747 936, fax +258 21 747 932, Avenida Samora Machel 259, Matola
Tenders and subcontracting
WBHO publishes a dedicated tender enquiries page separate from its general contact page, and that is the route for a subcontractor or supplier approach. Send a short capability statement with your company registration, tax clearance, B-BBEE certificate and relevant CIDB grading rather than a general enquiry, because a main contractor screens on those before anything else.
If you are pricing work on a specific project, name the project and the region in the subject line. A large contractor runs many sites at once and a general enquiry that does not identify one gets filed rather than actioned.
Getting paid as a subcontractor
Construction payment disputes are common and the law gives you routes. Keep the signed subcontract, every variation order in writing and every payment certificate. Verbal instructions to vary work are the single biggest cause of unpaid claims: get them confirmed by email the same day, even if only as a note of what was agreed on site.
Working for WBHO
Apply through the WBHO site rather than an agent. Nobody at a listed construction company charges for an application, a site induction, a medical or safety equipment. Those are the employer cost, and a request for payment is fraud.