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CONSTRUCTION WORLD
JANUARY
2017
This is the first development in the
Western Cape to have been awarded this
Custom Mixed Use tool and only the second
in the country.
Century City Square consists of a
Conference Centre with a total capacity
of 1 900 over 20 venues, a 125 room
hotel, 15 000 m
2
of offices, 51 apartments,
showrooms and restaurants all set around a
public open square. The entire development
is set over a super basement and this,
together with a structured parking garage,
provides under cover parking for 1 330 cars.
Steve Cloete, Rabie project manager,
said Century City Square had been a pilot
project for the new mixed use rating tool
for the GBCSA. “As such our green building
CENTURY CITY SQUARE
The mixed use Century City Square development, which was developed
by the Rabie Property Group at a cost of R1-billion, has been awarded
a 4-Star Green Star – Custom Mixed Use Design rating by the Green
Building Council of South Africa.
consultant worked very closely with the
GBCSA to formulate the rating tool and
in future Century City Square will be a
benchmark for all mixed use developments
going for a Green Star rating.”
Rabie’s Green Building consultant, Paul
Carew of PJ Carew Consulting, said the
project posed some immense challenges
in getting all the documentation together in
that there were so many buildings and so
many consultants involved.
“However, in spite of these difficulties
we received a very high round one score
from the GBCSA who said that the quality of
the submission had assisted them in their
assessment of the project and that it had
been much easier to review than what they
had anticipated.”
Carew said they would also be applying
for Green Star v1 As Built rating for the
Square and were currently getting the
documentation ready to submit.
Century City Square, which comprises
a total of six buildings, falls within the
Bridgeways Precinct of Century City which
is being developed as a green building
precinct and is home to five other green
rated office buildings, four of which were
also developed by Rabie.
These are the Business Centre and Philip
Morris which were awarded 4-Star Green
Star v1 ratings in both the Design and As
Built categories, Chevron – which received
a 5-Star Green Star v1 rating also in both
categories – and the 18 000 m
2
Bridge
Park development which is the new home
of Absa’s regional offices. Bridge Park also
has a 5-Star Green Star v1 Design rating and
has applied for an As Built rating.
Cloete said planning of the last two
office buildings in the precinct is well
advanced and details of these 8 000 m
2
buildings on a site bordering Sable Road
will be announced shortly.
“It is our intention to also register these
with the GBCSA, aiming for a 4-Star Green
Star rating in both the Design v1 and As
Built v1 categories.”
achieves Green Star rating