Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa September/October 2014

PROJECT 2929 on Nicol The Samsung head offices were a part of a R135 million, three phase office park development project, taken on by the well renowned development company, Zenprop Property Holdings 2929 ON NICOL Phase 1 of Bryanston Office Park CLIENT / DEVELOPER Zenprop Property Holdings PRINCIPAL AGENT AND PROJECT MANAGERS Capital Expenditure Projects (Capex) TENANT Samsung ARCHITECTS Empowered Spaces Architects QUANTITY SURVEYORS Schoombie Hartmann Quantity Surveyors CONSULTING ENGINEERS CIVIL/ STRUCTURAL Sotiralis Consulting Engineers MECHANICAL C3 Consulting Engineers T he site for this development is found adjacent to the Nicolway Shopping Centre in Bryanston and is known as the Medscheme Office Park. The position of the site offers good corporate exposure opportunities and is also easily accessible from all major surrounding road arterials, the highway and Gautrain bus routes. The Site The gross leasable area on site measures 16,000m² in total. Of this area, building phases one and two, which consist of two individual office blocks atop two levels of structured basement parking, take up 12,000m², with the Samsung offices occupying 6,000m². The remaining area hosts a third office block and an area on site has already been designated to allow for the possible future expansion of the Samsung offices. The biggest challenges throughout this development were the time constraints and budget. Each building was given a total project time of 6 months after which time it was to be completed. As a result, a well co-ordinated flow of information between all the teams needed to be adopted so as to ensure that these goals were reached. After incorporating such a system, each building phase was successfully completed within budget and on time. The development was set up in three phases, each to be ELECTRICAL CONSULTANT Standard Electrical FIRE CONSULTANTS TWCE TRAFFIC Kantey & Templer FAÇADE CONSULTANT Andrew Riley & Associates ELEVATOR CONSULTANT S4E INTERIOR DESIGNER Infinitude Design LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS InSite Landscape Architects LAND SURVEYORS Charlie Crowther Peter Caldwell MAIN CONTRACTOR Murray and Roberts The site for this development is found adjacent to the Nicolway Shopping Centre in Bryanston and is known as the Medscheme Office Park 40 2929 on Nicol

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