Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa March/April 2014 | Page 39
Description
Ridge 5, known as Strauss Daly Place, is a new
office development in the prestigious Ridgeside
Office Park in Umhlanga, KwaZulu Natal.
The building comprises four levels of
basement parking, one level of open parking
and eight levels of office accommodation with
a concrete roof slab. The total Gross Building
Area is 35,000m², with approximately 10,000m2
of this being lettable office space.
The building is designed as a reinforced
concrete frame with post tensioned slabs, and is
supported on piled foundations. Pile diameters
vary between 300mm and 750mm diameter.
An unusual feature of the building is the raking
off-shutter concrete wall to the south-west
elevation, with cantilever balconies projecting
from the face of the wall.
Due to the tight space constraints on
the site, anchored contiguous piled walls
were utilised to form the basement levels, in
addition to conventional reinforced concrete
retaining walls. The process of excavating for
the basement had to run hand-in-hand with
installation of gunite facing to the contiguous
piled walls, which resulted in a very complicated
earthworks operation.
The building comprises four
levels of basement parking, one
level of open parking and eight
levels of office accommodation
with a concrete roof slab
Scope of Services
Hatch Goba (formerly Goba) were appointed
by Chanter Properties to carry out the civil
and structural design for the new office block.
Hatch Goba were able to provide an efficient
structural solution on a very restricted site
which came in on budget and within the tight
development timeframes.
ADVERTISERS ON THIS PROJECT:
Corobrik
Manufacturer and distributor
of clay bricks and clay pavers
Elphick Proome Architects
Architects
FWJK Quantity Surveyors
Quantity Surveyors
Grid Construction
Main Contractor
Hatch Goba
Consulting Engineers and
Project Managers
Shirley Burrows Interiors
Interior Design Consultant
Spoormaker & Partners Inc
Consulting Mechanical &
Electrical Engineers
WSP Group Africa
Consulting MultiDisciplinary Engineers
Strauss Daly Place
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