Atterbury has won the fiercely contested tender to develop a new Gauteng office for Deloitte in South Africa after an intense selection process involving 15 submissions.Atterbury is developing the new Deloitte Gauteng office on behalf of a 50/50 JV between co-owners Atterbury and JSE-listed real estate capital growth fund Attacq Limited.
Louis van der Watt, CEO and co-founder of Atterbury, says: “We are thrilled to win this tender in a highly competitive environment. This development continues Atterbury’s track record of creating flagship corporate head offices and top-quality real estate assets for national and international blue-chip businesses.”
Deloitte’s new premises will be developed in Waterfall in Midrand, Gauteng joining a number of leading corporates consolidating their operations in what is becoming South Africa’s leading business destination. The total estimated development cost is in excess of R1 billion.
Mike Jarvis, COO of Deloitte Africa, says: “The consolidation of our Johannesburg and Pretoria offices into one Gauteng office in Waterfall City promises to be an exciting journey. We are quickly outgrowing both existing office spaces and are now in a position to bring together approximately 3,700 of our people into one, new, custom-designed building.”
The ultra-modern premises will comprise 42,500 m2 of workspace, consolidating Deloitte’s current Woodmead and Pretoria offices in a single central location. The building has space for close to 5,000 people.
Its position right on the Allandale interchange of the N1 highway will give exceptional access and visibility, with major highway frontage at the eastern side of Waterfall City.
The new Gauteng premises consist of a ground floor with six storeys of offices and four basement parking levels including nearly 2,000 parking bays. Commercial architecture practice Aevitas designed the new Deloitte headquarters, which will comply with a Silver LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Rating on completion.
Green buildings are proven to be cost effective and have meaningful impacts in mitigating against climate change. In this way, its new Gauteng office complements Deloitte’s purpose to make an impact that matters.
Bulk earthworks for the project will start in August 2017, with construction commencing on Deloitte’s new Gauteng office in the final quarter of this year. The development will be complete in the first quarter of 2020. Deloitte will begin operating from its new South African base from April 2020.
