When we started at the Sandton city buildings, it was known as the richest square mile in Africa, 10 years later, we are still getting called back time and time again, but its now the richest square mile and a half.
It would surprise most people if we were to put an arrow on each building in this photo that we have been apart of in the last 27 years, there be wouldn’t this beautiful urban photo in front of you, it would just be lines.
- Gautrain
- Bowmans
- Sanlam
- Sandton city
- Nelson Mandela square
- New discovery
- Old discovery
- Sasol
- Radison blue
- Village walk
- The Marc
These are just the tip of the iceberg, of the different buildings, not even to mention the amount of work in each building, each time we return.
In Sandton city alone, we have been apart of every major and minor renovation for the past 10 years, as a trusted and preferred subcontractor by Liberty themselves, that is how much we have done there, in 10 years we have removed more concrete in one building than anybody anywhere has ever removed.
However more recently we were tasked with removing 89m long x 12.5m wide floor for the new Checkers revamp, they tasked us to provide a clean safe removal while the mall was live and buzzing…. With one critical part, we had 14 days to do it in. Essentially they wanted 2396m of cutting in 112 hours.
Well at DCCS we never back down from a challenge so we had to make sure that every hour that passes 21.4m of concrete had to fall, which doesn’t seem to bad on paper, but consider that 21,4m essentially means 7 blocks, so every hour 7 blocks (1m x 1m) needed to be cut and lowered to the ground, from the ground be taken to the load area, with losing no time while waiting.
We struggled on day one and two, but we came back even stronger, we completed the task in 11 days, even though we did additional drainage cores, surface bed cut outs, we even managed to take down a stair case, and 6m long supporting beams, for them at the same time.