Overview
Some practical results
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Design Overview

Facilities Design involves space planning, interior design and workflow systems design. It is considered to be the strategic component of Facilities Management, and Afroteq has dedicated experts in this field to assist you in the design, implementation and management of one of your most important assets – your office space.

Our extensive and in depth knowledge of Facilities Management and its related operational challenges has led to a honing of our Facility Design skills to an unsurpassed level. To date, Afroteq has been directly responsible for managing design projects for major clients totaling over 350,000m² of office space.

Some practical results

Department of Public Works: Space Investigation
Afroteq was commissioned to develop architectural and furniture as-built layouts for a variety of prestigious accommodation sites amounting to roughly 2,500 occupants across 167,000m². Afroteq accounted for all the space using a variety of parameters, which were incorporated into a space management database specifically developed by Afroteq for DPW. Several space management reports on usage, vacancies and related subjects can be drawn off the system, allowing the client to manage space in a more efficient and strategic way.

Department of Public Works: Refurbishment Project
Afroteq was commissioned to handle a project involving the refurbishment of a prestigious accommodation building to the value of approximately R93 million. Afroteq’s responsibilities under this project were:

Overall project managers for all aspects of the project, representing the client’s interests to the professional team as well as the client’s own internal and outsourced contractors.
Principle agent/Architect responsible for the management of the professional design team, contractors and all architectural design work.
Office space planning, interior design and interior specifications for a high density, open plan environment with stringent security requirements.
Relocation planning and execution involving the project management of the relocation itself.

Chevron SA
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Afroteq performed a spatial requirement forecast for Chevron SA and also performed a “functional relocation” of nearly all the current occupants of their 12,000m² head offices in Cape Town using existing finishes and furniture. Since then, Afroteq has been involved in all of Chevron SA’s office planning and implementation for their head office and regional offices in SA.

At present, Afroteq is performing space planning consulting relating to the possible refurbishment of Chevron SA House in Cape Town, including considerations to move to an aggressive open plan, international standard office environment, as well as relocations in the East Coast regional office in Durban.

Direct Axis
Afroteq was appointed to perform the office planning, interior design and project management installation of 250 call centre workstations and a gymnasium.

Metropolitan Life: Rental Recovery System
Afroteq has audited all of Metropolitan Life’s CAD drawings together with a business process analysis of their rental recovery system. This facilitated more efficient internal rental recovery within the company.

Metropolitan Life: Space Requirement Forecasting
Afroteq was commissioned to perform an analysis of Metropolitan’s head office space requirements over a period of three years.

The methodology adopted in this exercise was the same as the previous space planning analysis performed by Afroteq resources and involved the interviewing of the various business and department heads in order to understand their spatial requirements. The results of the interviews were captured in a “department space requirement profile” and grouped per business, division and department. The findings are used for:

Determining the best location and grouping of businesses in various buildings within the campus
Justification for the non-renewal/cancellation of lease agreements of non-Metropolitan companies within the campus
Briefing an architectural team for commissioning the design of building another building

Metropolitan Life: Space Management
For a period of 18 months Afroteq managed the day-to-day office planning requirements for the roughly 2,500 staff housed in its head offices in Parc du Cap, Bellville, as well as numerous regional offices. The total space under management was approximately 64,000m².

Metropolitan Life: New Corporate Head Office
Afroteq and associate resources were responsible for and involved in Metropolitan’s new corporate head office project. The project involved the design and construction of an additional 13,000m² of office and auxiliary space, as well as the interior design and office planning of the total 64,000m² and the relocation of all 2,500 staff. Most notably, the office plan dictated the change from a primarily cellular office environment to an aggressively open plan layout design. Andre was responsible, inter alia, for the change management and education process for the relocations.

Tiger Brands: New Head Office
Afroteq performed the design and relocations management for Tiger Brands' new head office in Durbanville. The project was similar to the Metropolitan new corporate head office, but smaller in scale - involving 250 staff in 5,000 m² of office space. As in the case with Metropolitan, the design and relocation involved dramatically changing the space standards from office to open plan to such an extent that the MD now sits in an open plan cubicle. Afroteq was responsible for the successful change management for the project.
Afroteq continues to provide a design services to Tiger Brands for the day to day relocation needs.

Medical Research Council (MRC)
Afroteq was commissioned to perform an analysis of MRC’s current space usage and recommend the best layout over the next three years using block, stack and concept layouts. The methodology adopted in this exercise has been the same as the Metropolitan space planning analysis, and involved the interviewing of the various business and department heads in order to understand their spatial requirements. Amongst other activities, the project involved the update of CAD drawings. The total area audited was in the region of 8,000m².

Sanlam Investment Management
Afroteq performed the design function for SIM’s new offices in Bellville, known as Tijgerpark VI in 2000. Since then, Afroteq has continued to perform all “churn” space planning in the building. The total area Afroteq is responsible for is 3,500m²

Truworths
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Afroteq was appointed to perform the re-organisation project of the Head Office space usage. This entails, assessing the current space usage and making recommendation for the future space usage for this building. On successful completion of this project we are currently involved in phase two which entails the Space Planning, Interior Design and Project Management of a fit out of the entire building floor by floor.

City of Cape Town
Afroteq was appointed to assist the internal space planning team on major renovations projects. We were then appointed on a tender to compile all the design layouts for all the renovation projects in both the office accommodation facilities and other building structures in the entire Western Cape Region.

Recently we were also appointed to another tender to supply Project Management services to the city on all its projects in the entire Western Cape region.

Further to this we are also appointed as their preferred Space Planning consulting firm to assist them in compiling reports relating to their future spatial needs on various built environments.