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CONSTRUCTION WORLD
JUNE
2015
PROJECTS AND CONTRACTS
Nu-Way executive director Jordan
Mann announced to government and
private sector delegates at the Eastern
Cape Construction Summit in Port Elizabeth at
the end of March, that the project was on track
to break ground in 2018 and had the backing
of the Coega Development Corporation (CDC).
“This project will alleviate Nelson Mandela
Bay’s housing backlog of 87 000 units by
almost half through the construction of
40 000 housing units,” said Mann.“Not only will
Coega Ridge help substantially dent the metro’s
housing shortage, but as the Coega IDZ attracts
more and more top industries, we will build the
housing they will need, as our project caters for
all tenure groups.”
Mann said up to 5 000 jobs per month
would be created during the construction
phase, which was on track to start in 2018, and
that the entire project had a capital expenditure
value of R20-billion.
A newwaste water treatment plant planned
for the Coega IDZ, adjacent to Nu-Way’s Coega
Ridge development site, was a huge boost for
housing project, he said.
“The sewer pipeline which will run from
Coega to Motherwell will help unlock the
greater Coega Ridge project,” said Mann, who
has been working closely with municipal and
provincial stakeholders for several years to
make the project a reality.
Earmarked for 3 200 hectares of land along
the R335 to Addo, Nu-Way Housing Devel-
opments was in August last year given the
green light by the provincial Department of
Economic Development, Environmental Affairs
and Tourism (DEDEAT) to proceed with town
planning for the project.
Coega Ridgewould also include community
facilities in addition to schools, a university, a
technical college, a hospital, neighbourhood
shopping centres, and a regional shopping
centre spanning up to 110 000 m², said Mann.
Project civil engineers Aurecon are
confident that enough services are in
place to begin the first phase of the estate –
about 5 000 housing units.
However, a bulk waste water treatment
works in the IDZ would unlock the greater
development, said Mann.
Award-winning housing expert, Lance
del Monte, who is involved in the Coega
Ridge planning, said the development
would go a long way to addressing the city’s
housing backlog.
“This is a mega project which will certainly
go a far way to addressing the backlog,” said
Del Monte, who has commenced with the
conceptual stages of the project’s town plan-
ning for Nu-Way.
According to Mann, town planning for the
project could be completed by 2017, after which
– pending approval from all relevant provincial
and local stakeholders – ground on Phase One
could break. The project would unfold over six
to 10 years, he said.
At a national housing indaba in Johannes-
burg last October hosted by Human Settle-
ments Minister Lindiwe Sisulu’s, Nu-Way signed
government’s housing charter which maps
out the plan to reduce South Africa’s housing
backlog of 2,3 million units.
Project information
• Main contractor:
Al Futtaim Carillion
• Architect:
Studio Altieri International
• Consulting engineers:
Eng. Adnan
Saffarini Office,
• Subcontractor:
Al Alamal
Construction LLC
• Terraforce design engineer:
Knutton
Consulting Engineers
• Terraforce consultant:
Bryan Newby
• Terraforce licensed UAE
manufacturers:
Consent LLC
The walls reduce noise and create a pleasant environment.
Says Holger Rust, Cape Town based founder
of Terraforce, after he visited the site
February 2015: “This must be the most effi-
cient irrigation system ever. The exposed
pipe is hidden by the plants (portulacaria
afra) within three months.
Each plant has a dripper and water
provision for each plant can be accurately
controlled with a timer and wastage of the
precious resource is reduced to a minimum.
Further the system is extremely mainte-
nance friendly and repairs are a breeze.”
SA’S LARGEST
‘HOLISTIC
HOUSING
DEVELOPMENT’
Developers behind what aims to
be South Africa’s largest mixed-
use residential development, the
multi-billion rand Coega Ridge
holistic housing estate between
Motherwell and Coega outside
Port Elizabeth, have announced
strides inmaking the mammoth
project a reality.
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As the wall increased in height, backfill was
brought in, compacted to specification with
reinforcing layers of high strength geo-grid
every second course, to the final height of up
to 8 m. Near the top of and mid-way of the
walls, a non-woven geo-textile cut-off filter
layer was installed.
Bryan Newby stayed on in Dubai for a
few months, working with the team mostly
at night to avoid the intense summer heat.
Later Sinan Awad took over the supervision
of the contract, which is still on-going.
A pipe runs along each
row, dripping water
into each block.
Nu-Way executive director Jordan Mann (left) is flanked by Eastern Cape MEC for Finance, Economic
Development, Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Sakhumzi Somyo, at the recent Eastern Cape
Construction Summit.