Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa January/February 2015 | Page 62
Sutherland Expands
Mechanical Division
Sutherland continues with its multi-disciplinary growth into the Johannesburg
market. This national growth started with a branch office opening in Park Town
North in 2005 that initially only offered structural and civil services.
D
ue to strong client demand in Gauteng as well as Sub
Saharan Africa, Sutherland recently appointed two new
senior engineers to the fast growing mechanical division.
Technical Directors Gavin Pereira (Head of Wet Services JHB)
and Lindsay Lund (Head of HVAC JHB) joined Sutherland in
late 2014 at their new, larger offices in the recently refurbished
25 Rudd Road building opposite Wanderers Golf Club, Illovo.
Technical and CAD support teams, with full Revit 3D capabilities
to ensure fully integrated and optimised multi-disciplinary service
offerings for both these sub divisions are now well established
and growing fast.
Gavin Pereira
Gavin Pereira has over 28 years of experience as he joins
Sutherland as Head of Wet Services Johannesburg. Prior to
joining Sutherland, Gavin headed up WSP’s Wet Services division
before starting his own company, GK Pereira. His profile includes
projects such as Discovery Head Office in Sandton with 82,000m2
lettable, A-grade office space with 6 star green star aspirations.
In this issue of Architect and Builder Magazine alone, Gavin
provided consulting services on 15 Alice Lane South, Matlosana
Mall and Steyn City Clubhouse.
Lindsay Lund
To establish a truly multi-disciplinary national service offering to
their clients, Lindsay Lund, who has extensive HVAC experience
spanning 29 years, joined the Johannesburg mechanical team
as Head of HVAC. Previously managing his own practice before
heading up an international practice’s HVAC department in
Gauteng for many years, he was involved in a wide range of
commercial office projects. These include Worley Parson’s
Head Office at Melrose Arch, airports (OR Tambo), schools
(Oprah Winfrey Academy for Girls), hotels and a various retail
projects nationwide such as Atterbury’s recently completed
Newton Junction.
LINDSAY LUND
Head of HVAC
Johannesburg
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Some Current Projects in Johannesburg
A sample of high profile projects the team is currently working on
include Webber Wentzel’s new headquarters at 90 Rivonia Road
Sandton (Wet Services), Discovery’s new 82,000m2 Corporate
Head Office in Sandton (Wet Services), Rosebank Towers
23,000m2 (HVAC and Wet Services), the R1,65 billion Rosebank
Park Central Apartments (Wet Services) and the new, mixed-use
Village Walk in Sandton (Wet Services).
About Sutherland
Sutherland is a multi-disciplinary consulting engineering practice
with just over 100 staff that offers a broad range of engineering
services, including Structural, Civil, Mechanical (HVAC, Wet
Services and Fire) and Electrical engineering to its clients in
South Africa and numerous countries in Sub Saharan Africa.
Sutherland has a national South African footprint with branch
offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban and Tyger Valley
and a fast growing presence on the ground across Sub Saharan
Africa with local in-country partnerships.
Sutherland’s core focus is the optimisation of all aspects of
commercial offices, shopping centers, high rise apartment
buildings, hotels and conference centers, industrial distribution
centers and factories, hospitals, schools, data and call centers,
parking garages and deep and often wet basements.
Sutherland was proud to have engineered the following
category winners at the most recent SAPOA Awards – No 1 Silo,
best corporate office development, Cradlestone Mall, best retail
development, No 2 Silo, best residential development as well as
assisting Silo 1 gain six star green star design and as-built rating
in 2014.
Contact Details
CT: 021 425 0065 JHB: 011 268 1412 DBN: 031 265 4707
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.sutherlandengineers.com
GAVIN PEREIRA
Head of Wet Services
Johannesburg
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