Bosch Holdings Enginuity - July 2017 Enginuity-final-31July-lres | Page 12

12 Upgrading of Mitchells Plain Town Centre and construction of Link Road This project was undertaken on behalf of the City of Cape Town in phases and will be completed in 2017 at a construction cost of R 57m. The work consists of a wide range of activities, which includes 25 000m 2 segmented paved pedestrian alleys and squares in the Town Centre, upgrading of four parking areas, construction of 250m Link Road and 10th Avenue, with a turning area for large trucks in Alpha Crescent. The project further includes retaining walls, a boundary wall, street and area lighting, CCTV network with pole mounted cameras, over 400 steel trader canopies for informal traders, fish trader facilities, landscaping including more than 200 trees, irrigation and a 24 month horticultural maintenance period, street furniture and upgrading of artwork, a guard house, as well as a 90m 2 mosaic art work at the Mitchells Plain library. at a time and fenced off to ensure the safety of the public and a free flow of pedestrians through the area. Furthermore large delivery trucks to the shops had to be accommodated on a daily basis during the construction in the parking areas and the existing road layers in the parking areas were contaminated with tree roots to the extent that these layers had to be replaced with new material. Riaan van Wyk - [email protected] Some challenges during this contract were the large number of informal traders, as well as approximately 20 000 pedestrians moving through the area on a daily basis, which had to be accommodated and diverted around the works. The works in the Town Centre therefore had to be executed in small sections Paving around trees Library entrance Link Road with paving