Construction World December 2019

Category: Building Contractors

PROJECT INFORMATION

• Company entering: 6WHIDQXWWL 6WRFNV .=1 • Client: 1HGSRUW 'HYHORSPHQW • Start date: January 2017 • End date: 1RYHPEHU • Main contractor: Stefanutti Stocks Building • Architect: MAP Architects • Principal agent: Focus Project Management • Quantity surveyor: 0EDWKD :DOWHUV Simpson • Consulting engineer: Arup

PARK SQUARE Park Square, Mhlanga’s newest business and lifestyle development, opened its doors in November 2018 and offers a future-forward, people-centred destination where communities and professionals can shop, work and connect. When the team at Map Architects were approached in 2015 by Nedport Developments, a subsidiary of Nedbank, to design a space that would accommodate their KwaZulu- Natal team, the brief was to create a structure that would allow the easy flow of people through the development but also accommodate a 17 500 m² space to house their staff in addition to general commercial and retail space.

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