Press Release: Efficient processes from GEZE help to streamline ambitious retail project

17-10-2019
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MAMS Mall, Mamelodi, Gauteng

MAMS Mall is ‘the place to be’, so says the mall’s slogan. The expansive shopping centre covers 70,000 square meters, and is situated right in the middle of Mamelodi’s bustling informal settlement.

The extensive mall offers a full kilometre of flow, yet the whole project was completed in record time. Co-developers Resilient and New Africa Developments appointed Beckers Building Contractor to construct this ambitious project.

GEZE supplied and installed a range of ironmongery, from overhead door closers to floor springs to standard ‘commodity’ door hardware products for the building itself, as well as for many of its key tenants. Cole Briel of GEZE summarizes the role that the mall fulfils, ‘The mall is stimulating new consumerism. It’s meeting the need of a growing community and is a strong new focal point of Mamelodi.’

Neels Fourie explains how LP Architects needed an ironmongery provider who would partner with them throughout the project: ‘GEZE was involved in the whole process: from designing to supplying to installing. Their BIM Model saved us so much time – they really took the scheduling off our hands. GEZE are specialists in what they do. They knew the ironmongery requirements and they supplied it in the right sequence to the contractor, which worked well.’

Zampie van Heerden, Beckers Building Contractor, reiterates that, on a project of this size, scheduling and clear numbering of ironmongery requirements is key. With four different architects designing the mall’s different key tenants, it soon became clear that more on-site support was need from GEZE. ‘GEZE appointed a dedicated person on-site for us, so this streamlined the process hugely. It saved a lot of time and we could get what we needed quickly,’ he explains.