GBCWorld Design and Engineering is a large Canadian vertically integrated engineering firm, with expertise in large scale infrastructure projects, including public$-$private partnership $($PPP$)$ projects involving government departments and agencies. It has been a major player in North America and has started to venture into consulting activities in other areas in the world.

The firm was recently approached about taking on a major tourism project, a green powered luxury hotel east of Worcester, South Africa, about $350$ kilometres beyond the Cape Town International Airport and Seaport. The project once complete will be valued at $$35$ million Cdn$.$ In recent years, local corruption has grown, crime has increased and contributed to social instability. Those harsh realities aside, the country has benefited from foreign investment, and GBCWorld perceives an opportunity to take on a complicated, potentially profitable project in a region considered too risky by the firm$$s competitors.