ON THE COVER: JSE listed multidisciplinary construction group, Stefanutti Stocks, is at an advanced stage of completion on two clay core earth-fill embankment dams in Mumbwa, Zambia. The fast track projects see Cat machines forming a core component of the construction mix.
Operating from its home base in South Africa, Stefanutti Stocks is progressively expanding its African footprint. The group’s focus continues to evolve, with new opportunities unfolding in East Africa and West Africa.
The project profile this month is on a wind farm being developed in the karoo. Murray & Roberts Infrastructure reports that the construction of 35 wind turbine bases at the Noupoort Wind Farm as well as the ancillary civil works have been completed.
This 35 wind turbine farm is located in the Umsobomvu District some 10 km east of Noupoort on the top of the mountain range of the same name. Once completed this wind farm, which will be operated by Mainstream, will feed 80 MW capacity back into the national grid via a 132 kV overhead power line.
From left: Steel reinforcement in progress on a base, completed concrete base and plinth before backfilling, and the gravel access road prior to placing wearing course.
Construction World this month introduces its first feature on quantity surveyors in South Africa.
The quantity surveying profession is a key component of the construction supply chain – but all supply chain members have to share commitment and combine forces to make sustainable building more acceptable in South Africa, says Danie Hoffman, a l member of the Association of SA Quantity Surveyors.
SA quantity surveyors should broaden their scope of operations beyond our national borders, says Synergy Property Solutions, a small quantity surveying and project management company based in Port Elizabeth, which has made major inroads into Africa and worked on several high-profile, prestige contracts in several parts of the continent and on Indian Ocean Islands.
Poorly prepared tender documentation has become a major problem in the South African construction industry with tenders put out by municipalities, in particular, increasingly dropping in standard, warns Bert van der Heever, president of the Association of SA Quantity Surveyors (ASAQS).
From left: Danie Hoffman, Grant Hechter (right), owner and MD of Synergy Property Solutions, with the company's senior associate Member, Bruce McNicol and Bert van der Heever, president of ASAQS.
The area around the iconic Loftus Versfeld stadium in Pretoria is set to become another of the city’s growth nodes, with the development of new residential and mixed-use spaces such as the ambitious Loftus Park with its retail and commercial office components.
Development at Bridge City to the north of Durban is gathering momentum with the precinct not only emerging as a key investment location but also as a strategic regional precinct and transport hub.
A new 148-room City Lodge Hotel has opened at Newtown Junction – Atterbury Property Developments’ ground-breaking R1,4-billion mixed-use development in the Joburg CBD.
The three-star hotel is the latest addition to the award-winning 85 000 m² Newtown Junction shopping, leisure and office development.
From left: The construction of a new residential apartment block called 441@Kirkness, Bridge city and the new City Lodge hotel in Newtown.
