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oncor has been awarded the 814 tons of rebar and some 8 707 m3 of
Concor to construct
Ikusasa office block
at Oxford Parks
contract to construct the new concrete will be used in the construction
CIkusasa office block at Oxford of Ikusasa.
Parks in Rosebank. Work started on the Martin Muller, contract manager at
building, which will house Anglo Global Concor, says that the company is excited
Shared Services (AGSS), at the beginning to continue constructing within the
of March 2021 and is scheduled for Oxford Parks precinct. “Our involvement
completion in January 2022. with this exciting development goes back
The four storey building will be to the construction of the first building
constructed on three basement levels of which today houses BPSA,” he says.
approximately 10 326 m2 and will have The Oxford Parks BPSA building
four office levels totalling approximately received industry recognition at
7 555 m2 GLA. It is anticipated that some Construction World’s 2019 Best Projects
when Concor scooped the winning place
in the Building Contractors category,
and the project also received a Special
Mention in the AfriSam Innovation
Award for Sustainable Construction.
Following on this, at Construction
World’s 2020 Best Projects, the Oxford
Parks precinct featured again with
Concor being recognised as the winner
in the Building Contractors category; this
time for Building 2 – Life Healthcare’s
new 10 000 m2 head office, Building 3 – a
4 000 m2 multi-tenanted building housing
inter alia Metier Private Equity, and G+D
Currency Technology and Building 5 – 3
400 m2 offices for Arup and Sony Music.
Most recently, Concor completed the
Radisson RED hotel which is also part of
this exciting new precinct in Rosebank,
and is due to be opened in June 2021. dw
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