Construction World December 2018

T he conceptual planning, town-planning and preliminary designs on this project started as early as 2005. Infraconsult Engineering was part of this project from the onset. The Watervalspruit project (now named The Sky City Housing Project by Cosmopolitan) is situated south of Alberton, north of the border of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality and Midvaal Municipality, east of the R59. The entire Watervalspruit Residential Development will consist of 15 358 residential units which will be developed and completed in 11 phases over a period of eight to 10 years. Watervalspruit will provide housing to a group of people that is normally referred to as the ‘missing gap’ when it comes to housing beneficiaries, i.e.: people with a combined monthly household earning of more than R3 000 who do not qualify for RDP housing grants and people who cannot afford higher upper-class houses of say above R500 000 (these are people who earn at least R10 500 per month). Beneficiaries who qualify for the Financial Linked Individual Subsidy Programme (FLISP) will also be catered for on this housing project. The project submitted for Best Projects is Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the Watervalspruit Residential Development, i.e.: ‘Provision of Engineering Services for Watervalspruit Phases 1 and 2’ and comprises provision of bulk and internal engineering services to 2 975 RES 1 stands and 425 high density units, a shopping centre, filling station, taxi rank, two schools and three Social Node stands for community facilities, at a cost of ± R220-million.  backlog and more specifically the East Rand of Gauteng (Ekurhuleni Region), Cosmopolitan Projects, launched what is defined as a mega housing development, at Watervalspruit, on 1 June 2016. PROJECT INFORMATION WATERVALSPRUIT MEGA RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PHASES 1 & 2 Against the backdrop of a huge national housing

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• Company entering: Infraconsult Engineering • Client: Cosmopolitan Projects JHB • Project value: R220 000 000 • Start date: June 2016 • End date: May 2018 (phases 1 and 2 complete) • Main Contractor: Sikhumba Construction • Principal Agent: Infraconsult Engineering • Consulting Engineer: Infraconsult Engineering