NEW HEAD OFFICE FOR
SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC
A new head office is currently under
construction for Schneider Electric. The
office will be located in a P-Grade multitenanted building designed by Aevitas Group
in the Waterfall City CBD.
The site is located adjacent to the recently
completed Novartis Head Office and
diagonally opposite the soon-to-becompleted Mall of Africa. With exposure to
Allandale Road and access off the main ring
road of the City, the building enjoys a
prominent position within Waterfall City.
The development comprises 3 basement
levels of parking and 4 office levels above
ground. With over 15,000m2 of Rentable
Area, the building will house Schneider
Electric along its Northern wing and other
blue chip international tenants in its Southern
wing. The two wings are connected by a
grand, fully enclosed, quadruple-volume
atrium which will serve as one of the main
features of the building.
The building is targeting a Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
Silver rating and is to be seamlessly
integrated into the Urban Fabric of Waterfall
City. As such, the building enjoys a total of
four major access points for pedestrians one on each of it’s boundaries. It also ties in
with defined pedestrian routes and bus
stops as dictated by the overall Master Plan
of the City.
The design makes use of feature
landscape berms and grand staircases to
take up the substantial slope across the site.
The result is that the building starts to merge
wit