Where America once had its time-honoured twin towers, Malaysia its 6 year reigning tallest building in the world Petronas Towers, Shinar a tower whose top was said to reach the heavens … Babel; closer to home – infact at the heartland of the sprawling CBD of the northern suburbs – stand Sandton Towers. Despite the colossal construction’s glass and aluminium towers linked by a vertical atrium, this 20 000 m2 and 18 storey office rental keeps the environment in mind … in a big green way!
This commercial office space is one of a few that adhere to guidelines put forward by the Green Building Council SA, an ‘independent, non profit membership-based organisation formed in 2007 by leaders from all sectors of the commercial property industry’ as outlined on their official site http://www.gbcsa.org.za/home.php
Materials that get pre-selected for use are of prime importance when it comes to office rentals that keep the environment in mind, and erecting Johannesburg’s formidable fort was no exception. Take the commercial structure’s distinct panels which it gets its “salt and pepper” name for instance, these make up a functional but fashionable patterned facades of dark grey and translucent glass economically clipping together to adjust for external heat, cold, and outside noise – so tenants needn’t strap on sound cancelling headsets.That’s your company’s electricity bill from all the air-conditioning and heat consumption eliminated.
As rare a property development this is on the subject of office rentals that keep the environment in mind, the greenery of this designer rental office space is also enhanced by its economic and ecological placement, reflective in surrounding ponds and featured waterscapes.
So it’s not only companies looking for a mainstream location along arterial routes or large office spaces with ample parking (6 storeys in Sandton Towers’ case), but those keen on renting office property with an energy-footprint in-line with climate and energy targets; what we have in this article been aptly referring to as office rentals that keep the environment in mind. Overtime, eco-friendly equipped officeblocks are making more fiscal sense as they allow corporations to bank most of their bottom-line, especially in a period like one we’re in … barely certain of bail from a garden-fresh recession.
The northern suburbs have seen an influx of companies occupying some of the Greater Johannesburg region’s loftiest office spaces to-let to-date; robust start-ups and big firms alike taking-up residence within the capital district of trade. This has been partly due to an unprecedented real-estate investment injected over the past 2 decades. As a result large,eco-viable properties being built leading to an increase in office spaces that keep the environment in mind, both in construction materials used coupled with energy efficient enhancements – in the case of Sandton Towers, not without style to show for all the talk of green office rental mindedness.