BCX
HEAD OFFICE
BCX HEAD OFFICE Centurion
CLIENT BCX HQ Offices Co-ownership JV
PROJECT MANAGER & PRINCIPAL AGENT JSA & Associates R . O . M .
ARCHITECT SVA International
QUANTITY SURVEYORS DelQS in a JV with PMPlus
CIVIL & STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS Bigen Africa Group Holdings PDS Civil Engineers
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS Quad Africa Consulting Moditi Consulting Engineers
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Spoormaker & Partners Dientsenere Tsa Meago
FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEER Ingplan
WET SERVICES GIBB
VERTICAL TRANSPORTATION CONSULTANT Projitech
SUSTAINABILITY CONSULTANT WSP in Africa
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT Uys & White
INTERIOR DESIGNER & SPACE PLANNER dsgn design
MAIN CONTRACTOR Concor ( formerly Murray & Roberts Construction ) in a JV with Fikile Construction
PHOTOGRAPHY Graham de Lacy
South African information and technology group , Business Connexion ( BCX ), wanted to construct a new headquarters , consolidating their various offices across Gauteng . Their brief to architects SVA International was to create an iconic & contemporary building accommodating 36,000m 2 of GLA including offices and a warehouse of 2,500m 2 . Parking was to be maximised . The building was to contain client engagement and function areas as well as various showroom aspects to allow BCX to display their IT vendor offerings .
Site The site is located in Centurion , on the corner of John Vorster Drive and Lenchen Avenue . It lies adjacent to Centurion Mall and falls within a short distance of the Centurion Gautrain Station and numerous multi-occupant modes of public transport , making it easily accessible and highly visible in the surrounding urban fabric .
The BCX headquarters is the first building to be constructed in a larger development master plan for the vacant land between the Centurion Mall and John Vorster Drive . The development master plan allows additional commercial development as well as public spaces and amenities to be developed on this key piece of vacant land .
Locating the building on the site presented many challenges due to the dolomitic conditions of the Centurion area . There were two large category seven sink hole areas on the site that are located close to the main road intersections of John Vorster & Lenchen Avenue as well as Lenchen Avenue & South Street . This forced the building to be located towards the back of the site and informed the angular geometries of the plan as the building ‘ wrapped ’ itself around these sink hole zones . The remaining portions of the site allowed for pockets of parking to be separated into visitor and staff parking areas which in turn informed the entrance locations to the buildings .
Design Concept & Strategy The building is a contemporary corporate environment encompassing the social workplace lifestyle required of an innovative tenant as well as those of a commercially savvy developer . The footprint is derived from these design drivers .
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