Construction World May 2017

Internal excavations underway, with steel-clad pillar in the centre.

Steel braces provide support while this apartment’s floor is deepened.

replaced with a new circular entrance complete with water feature. Unusually for Murray & Roberts Western Cape, they will take the construction only up to ‘white box’ stage, where floors and walls are tiled, ceilings are installed and all surfaces are prepared, painted and ready for their final coat. “We will provide temporary doors and hand over the client’s own contractors, who will undertake the finishing stages of the job including kitchen fittings, vanities, cupboards, door frames, doors and architraves,” says Dutton. The out-sized specifications of the specially imported tiles – 2,8 m long and 800 mm wide – are another indicator that this is

no ordinary development, and that no expense has been spared to create a luxury result. “There will be little room for error in the handover to the final- stage contractors, so the pressure is on us and our South African tradesmen to complete our work to ‘seven star’ grade,” says Griffiths. “We will have to leave our part of the work perfect in anticipation of the next stage, especially given the high value of the imported components which must fit exactly.” Top-end appliance brand names have also been associated with the apartments to assure buyers of the highest standard of finishes and equipment. 

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