SA Affordable Housing May / June 2018 // Issue: 70 | Page 36

PROJECTS
The project won developer of the year at the SAARDA gold day and awards evening.
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"There’s community engagement.
They care for each other."
– Nenique van Rensburg, Caliber Properties.
An open space area offers play gyms and other places for
recreation for children and parents.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Three-storey walk-ups are also available on the property.
Caliber faced a few challenges when it came to be involved
in the project. Despite this, they were able to employ
locals to help with building work such as brick laying,
excavations and paving.
“We’ve extended a contract with one of the contractors
for the next phase of the project,” says project manager,
Martin Croukamp.
Other challenges experienced were around securing
service level agreements and approval of plans at city
council, the distance between major suppliers to the site
also created challenges in terms of project management.
What Caliber admires most about the project is that
there’s nothing like that in the area. “The community does
what they have to do to keep the place intact. There’s
community engagement. They care for each other,” says
sales and marketing manager, Nenique van Rensburg.
RECEIVING TOP HONOURS
The project won the Developer of the Year award at the
South African Affordable Residential Developers
Association (SAARDA) annual golf and awards evening held
at Glendower Golf Club last year.
“We were very excited when we won the award, I was
flabbergasted. It motivated us to go to higher standards
and go bigger with our service, providing homes. It’s
always nice to provide a house to a first-time buyer and the
project is successful,” Taljaard expresses.
“Everyone deserves to have their own house. We invest
in people’s futures,” concludes Van Rensburg.
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From left: Nenique van Rensburg (sales and marketing
manager), Marlisé Taljaard (development manager) and
Martin Croukamp (project manager) from Caliber Properties.