As South Africa’s population of university students has grown, so has the demand for accommodation; a Cape Town project being built by Concor Western Cape for client Respublica will help meet this need.

Private sector-financed building activity (see explanatory note) in the South African market for new housing showed continued diverging trends on specifically a segment level in the first eight months of 2018, which caused the planning phase of new housing to have improved whereas the construction phase has contracted over this period.

The fourth and final phase of the popular Willow Wood Office Park, developed by Heartwood Properties, in Fourways in Gauteng, is currently under construction and due for completion in March next year.

Westbury Clinic – a R23 million state of the art health facility that services more than 55 000 people and creates an environment that not only heals but promotes health and human dignity – won first prize in the Health Completed Buildings at the Berlin World Architecture Festival in November last year.

Raubex Building has notched up another successful RDP housing project in Gauteng, completing 480 units at Riverside view south of Diepsloot in the Fourways area near Johannesburg.

The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport has invested more than R30 billion in the past three years on public infrastructure projects.

Abland is developing Loftus Park, an impressive new mixed use precinct adjacent to Loftus Versfeld, where once stood the infamous Sinbin.

The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport has spent over R3 billion undertaking heavy and light rehabilitation of the road infrastructure along various corridors in the province since 2014.

The NHBRC’s Disciplinary Committee imposed a fine of R1, 6 million on a developer, PJJ Van Vuuren Beleggings (EDMS) BPK (NHBRC reg. no. 4526), for failure to enrol 160 residential units which were under construction at Erf 1943, Elarduspark in Gauteng.

Habitat for Humanity South Africa in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Foundation will be hosting their Nelson Mandela International Build Week from 17 to 21 July in Orange Farm, Gauteng.