Gibela awarded Trencon Construction- Black Jills Engineers JV the contract for the main site buildings for its factory in Dunnottar, Ekurhuleni. The value of the contract is USD 26 million project (R 400 million).
It is planned that construction and equipping of all the buildings on site will be completed by November 2017, when full-scale building and assembling of the first of the 580 South African-made trains, for delivery to PRASA, will begin. The gross building area of the factory covers 53,000m² of the site’s total area of 270,000m², or 27 hectares.
The construction programme will reach its peak at the end of 2016 where in some 1,900 limited duration jobs will be created.
With completion of environmentally sensitive site-clearing in February 2016 and partial completion of earthworks, construction of the new train-manufacturing facility has now begun. Site mobilisation for this critical phase started early in May 2016 to begin work on the factory and ancillary buildings which comprise five manufacturing buildings (including the training centre), a central complex of two buildings and utility buildings for operational purposes. The training centre will be the first building to be completed. Prioritisation of the training centre is to allow for staggered training of South Africans in readiness for when local train manufacturing operations begin.
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