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PROJECT

Project Team
Client: Simbithi Eco-Estate and Country Club
Main Contractor: SJC Projects Estate entrance
Principal Architect: Gerhard Architects
Civil & Structural Engineers: Mono Block

SIMBITHI ECO-ESTATE

SPORTS COMPLEX

Simbithi Eco-Estate on KZN’s north coast recently completed and launched a state-
of-the-art sports complex for its residents, comprising a lap pool, bowling green,

pavilion deck, tennis, squash and padel courts. All aspects of the complex were
designed with environmental stewardship in mind, aligning with the Estate’s core
design ethos of sustainability, water conservation and eco-friendly landscaping.

entral to the sports complex is a lap approximately 464 l/sec, to leave the tank at Racket sports
pool supported by a 280 000 litre the original, pre-development flow rates of There are three colour-coded, concrete
Cattenuation tank which facilitates approximately 159 l/sec. tennis courts, enabling participation in
stormwater management. Its surplus Once a storm has passed, 260m3 of league tournaments. The court surfaces
capacity provides back-up for the country the stormwater will be retained within are blue, tying in with the Club’s primary
club and landscape irrigation, with storage the attenuation tank, which can then be corporate colour.
of rain-harvested water occurring directly used by the Estate for augmenting the Two padel courts have an artificial
under the new lap pool. water supply to the golf course and sports surface, and have been built to the Jubo
In the event of a significant storm, complex, including the swimming pool. standard. Jubo Padel is a world-renowned
the 260m3 tank will initially function as Presently, the system is not connected company that manufactures and installs
an attenuation tank, allowing for large directly into the sports complex’s irrigation padel courts, and Simbithi’s courts have
volumes of stormwater entering the tank system, but this will be considered in the been built to their standards. The courts
to be throttled back from high flow rates of near future. feature their top product, which was used

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