Illustrating its commitment and long-term investment in the region, Schneider Electric in southern Africa is constructing a new head office building in a prime location in Waterfall City, Midrand.
Waterfall City is South Africa’s largest urban concept development, designed to provide everything expected of a world-class modern city, with all the conveniences of a quality urban environment. It is strategically located between Midrand and Sandton, spanning land on both sides of the N1 highway from the Woodmead to Allandale interchanges.
The new construction follows Schneider Electric’s investment in a 12 000 square metre premises, which was opened last year, also in Midrand, which is home to Schneider Electric’s manufacturing operation, its mining team which services the whole of Africa, its sustainability development business unit and low voltage electrical distribution division, as well as the Schneider Electric Academy and the company’s data centre consolidation initiatives.
Earthworks have already begun and the new building is being developed in line with Schneider Electric’s ‘Cool Sites’ brand ethos, which encapsulates the company’s energy efficiency solutions and an architecture that mirrors the brand whilst enhancing greater collaboration, productivity and motivation among staff.
Schneider Electric’s chairman and CEO, Jean-Pascal Tricoire, senior vice president for Africa and the Caribbean, Mohamed Saad, and country president for southern Africa, Eric Leger, marked the start of construction at a celebratory soil turning event, together with representatives from Atterbury Property Holdings, developers of the new head office.
Left to right: Mohamed Saad, Jean-Pascal Tricoire, Eric Leger, Morne Wilken, CEO Attacq and Luke Chandler, architect at Aevitas Group.
Business units, including energy services, partner projects and buildings, retail, industry, IT business and support services, currently operating from Schneider Electric’s head office in Janadel Avenue, are expected to relocate to the building on 1 August 2016.
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