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Wood MAkEs

sTRaTegiC MoVe

Global engineering firm is the latest blue-chip and provides a collection of shared
communal facilities such as conference
company to call Waterfall home halls, restaurants, and green spaces.
W aterfall City continues perfectly with this strategic focus.” Wood’s interior design firm, Interiors

for Change, helped craft an innovative
to attract high calibre
clients, with Wood, one
Corporate Campus, a secure 35 000m
of the world’s leading Wood will be moving into Waterfall’s 2 space that has longevity and is tailored
to Wood’s specific needs. The design
consulting and engineering companies, office park, located on the corner of enables those working from the office
the latest in a long line of global brands Waterfall and Letaba Drives. As with to move between silent and social
moving to Gauteng’s fast‐growing all Waterfall developments, Corporate spaces with relative ease, empowering
business hub, developed by Attacq. Campus prioritises sustainability employees to work in areas that
and green design, incorporating best optimise their productivity.
Operating across the fields of elements such as a state‐of‐the‐art
energy and the built environment, water and irrigation system, innovative “With the new ways of working,
with over 40 000 employees in variable Refrigerant volume (vRv) it was important that our new
over 60 countries worldwide, condensers, pedestrian walkways, home be optimised for hybrid
Wood specialises in sustainable and shaded canted roofs. working. We needed quiet areas,
infrastructure, energy transition, collaborative areas, and teamwork
digital systems and technology. Core Basson adds: “In our search for areas to complement our hybrid
to the firm’s operating philosophy is a a location that aligned with and working philosophy. Corporate
commitment to helping their clients complemented our brand and Campus offered exactly that – the
unlock sustainable solutions to the sustainability objectives, as well as flexibility to customise spaces to our
world’s most critical challenges. meeting the work-life balance needs individual needs,” concludes Basson.
of our employees, Waterfall’s strategic
Mark Basson, Manager Commercial placement between Johannesburg Wood joins a long list of prominent
at Wood, says: “As a business that and Pretoria, access to public companies that already call the safe,
specialises in helping our clients transport and array of world-class smart and sustainable Corporate
achieve their energy transition and amenities made it the ideal choice.” Campus home, including global
sustainability goals, it was essential to consulting firm Accenture, international
us that we partnered with a brand that Corporate Campus is close to the pharmaceutical company Boehringer
shared our commitment to creating Mall of Africa, Waterfall City Netcare Ingelheim, the African Exploration
a safer and more sustainable world. Hospital, Curro Waterfall school, Mining and Finance Corporation
Waterfall’s vast offering of A‐grade several A‐grade office developments, (AEMFC), and data, digital and
buildings, best in class urban design and various residential developments. performance intelligence businesses
and emphasis on creating safe, smart The office park comprises seven Decision Inc, Dimension Data, and
and sustainable spaces, aligned buildings of around 5 500m² each, Astute Financial Services Exchange.

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