GUGULETHU SQUARE
GUGULETHU SQUARE Gugulethu , Cape Town
DEVELOPERS West Side Trading 600 A JV between MZoli Properties , IDEAS Fund , Group Five , Khula Finance and a community based investment scheme
PROJECT MANAGER Profica Project Management
ARCHITECTS Bentel Associates International
QUANTITY SURVEYORS Davis Langdon Nanza Consulting
STRUCTURAL & CIVIL ENGINEER Manong & Associates
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS 4em Consulting Arcus Gibb ( for Jet Stores )
Gugulethu Square , the R350 million retail development which opened in Gugulethu in November , may help shape the rating tool to be applied to shopping centres by the Green Building Council of South Africa .
South Africa has adapted the Australian Green Star rating system to assess buildings for their energy and resource efficiency and environmental friendliness , says Mzoli Ngcawuzele , spokesman for the developers , Mzoli Properties .
Site Cape Town ’ s newest shopping centre , Gugulethu Square , opened in November , and promises to redefine the shopping experience for the residents of the greater Gugulethu area .
Construction began on the site of the old strip retail facility known as the Eyona Shopping Centre in Gugulethu , a township 15km from Cape Town . The N1 main route runs through the area and is close to the N2 bypass intersection . Gugulethu , along with Nyanga , was established in the 1960s due to the overcrowding of Langa , which was the only black residential area in Cape Town at the time . During the apartheid era , black South Africans were not permitted to live in the city of Cape Town and many people were removed to areas with poor infrastructure such as Gugulethu and Nyanga . Over time , there was growth and some infrastructural
MECHANICAL & FIRE ENGINEER EKCON Engineers
TRAFFIC ENGINEER Pendulum Consulting
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT CONSULTANT Bergstan
HEALTH & SAFETY CONSULTANT Ukhuseleko Health & Safety Consultants
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT Amathemba
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT Doug Jeffery Environmental Consultants
LAND SURVEYORS Brian Mellon & Associates
TENANT COORDINATION & LEASING AGENTS Soundrock Tenant Coordination
MAIN CONTRACTOR JT Ross & Son
PHOTOGRAPHY Fiona Barclay Smith
272 Gugulethu Square