A 17,000 m² three-storey retail centre with basement parking, ground-floor shops and first-floor offices and restaurants, delivered in joint venture with Carlos Da Costa Building, with Unicon constructing all the concrete structure.
Project Overview
The Invesco Centre in Pietermaritzburg is a three-storey retail building of roughly 17,000 m². It combines basement parking, ground-floor shop space and first-floor office and restaurant space, a stacked layout that puts the weight of the structure squarely on the concrete frame.
Unicon took the contract in a joint venture with Carlos Da Costa Building and constructed all of the concrete structural works. The programme ran for twenty months, from April 2008, under JBCC Series 4.
At A Glance
Appointment
Full Contract (principal contractor)
Contract form
JBCC Series 4
Location
Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal
Programme
Apr 2008 to Dec 2009 (20 months)
Value band
R20–50M
Employer
Invesco
Sector
Retail
Status
Complete
Unicon’s Appointment
Unicon holds a single construction agreement with the employer. We price the work, carry the programme and quality risk, procure and manage the subcontractors and hand over a completed asset. This is the appointment employers choose when they want one party accountable for delivery.
JBCC Series 4 is the Joint Building Contracts Committee Principal Building Agreement, the standard contract for building work in South Africa.
Scope Of Works
Brands & Stakeholders
Employer
The employer on the contract.
Joint venture partner
Building contractor in the joint venture with Unicon.
Related Capability
Questions
All of the concrete structure of a three-storey building of about 17,000 m² with basement parking, delivered in joint venture with Carlos Da Costa Building.
Yes, where a project suits it. Joint ventures allow each partner to carry the trades it is strongest in, and Unicon's structural concrete capability is typically what it brings.
Yes. Basement parking and multi-storey reinforced concrete structure are in the recorded scope at the Invesco Centre, and structural concrete is a core Unicon capability.
JBCC Series 4.
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