PROJECT
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Katherine Towers
stands tall and green
Another towering commercial building is the latest addition
to Sandton’s mixed use precinct.
By By Benjamin Brits | All images Plumbing Africa
Each of the bathrooms (both male and female), are equipped with electronic washbasin taps and soap dispensers.
Located within the new Katherine Street precinct is
a development within walking distance of Sandton
City and the Gautrain Station that will become the
new head office for Bidvest Bank.
Katherine Towers offers expansive views of its
surroundings and will become a prominent Sandton
landmark. The building was designed without an
underground basement parking structure and therefore
has nine floors of above-ground parking, with 11 floors
of office space catering for 1 000 parking bays and more
than 23 000m² of lettable area.
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The project was started mid-2017 and is expected to be
completed in full at the end of July 2019.
PROJECT CHALLENGES
Time was a challenge as deadlines were tight from the
start, so the wet services team had to push to get things
done. However, this is the nature of a project of this size
and all the teams knew what needed to be achieved from
the start.
As the building was still under construction during the
plumbing installation, access to get the material to the
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