The Civil Engineering Contractor September 2018 | Page 18

ON SITE
Illovo’s mixed-use
affordable site
By Eamonn Ryan
With its proximity to
Gautrain stations, Illovo
is becoming a prime
residential and commercial
location. Illovo Central is
the second of four planned
mixed-use buildings to be
developed in the exclusive
new Illovo precinct.
16 - CEC September 2018
I
llovo is a suburb of Johannesburg,
Gauteng, bordered by Hyde Park,
Dunkeld, Sandhurst, Inanda, and
Melrose. The suburb is home to many
young professionals and creatives
because of its close proximity to
the business centres of Sandton and
Rosebank, and many affordable
apartment blocks are located there.
Due for completion in January
2020, the 70 Melville Road
development — Illovo Central —
is rising from the 8.44m basement
initially dug. The civils work was
completed before the first week
in July when construction began
of what is to be a multipurpose
building, 18 storeys high. Those
storeys will consist of:
• three basement parking levels
• a ground level floor dedicated
to communal facilities such as
restaurants
• another five levels of parking
• two levels of office space
• a commercial level that includes
shared office space, a wellness
centre, and an exclusive upmarket
entertainment area; and
• the remaining six floors make
up the residential section, which
ranges from studio apartments
starting at R914 000 all the
way through to R28-million
penthouses.
Sumé van Jaarsveld, quantity
surveyor for project developer
FWJK Developments, says the
R500-million total development is
a ‘co-development at cost price’
project in which FWJK created a
special-purpose vehicle into which