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Careers – Development Manager

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Qualifications and Requirements:-

*         Qualifications, one of the following:

  • Project Manager (MSc Project Management)
  • Construction Studies (BSc Construction Studies)
  • BSc (Honours) in Quantity Surveying
  • Architect (Bachelor of Architectural Studies) or Master’s in Architecture   

*         4 -7 years of industry and site experience, good construction knowledge and understanding of the JBCC

*         Excellent project management and communications skills

*         Good team player

*         Good at planning and organization

*         Confident and willing to direct meetings

*         Strong administration and management skills to drive projects.

Duties:-

The Development Manager will be responsible for driving the entire development process, from inception to completion. This will include:

Due Diligence and purchase of sites for development

  • Analysis of site setbacks, title deed restrictions and what can be developed on the site.
  • Arranging Conveyancer’s Certificates, Town Planning opinions, traffic and heritage assessments etc.
  • Requesting opinions from various professionals, documenting findings for sign-off.
  • Assess information and make recommendations on development opportunities.
  • Development feasibilities and preparation of documentation to investment partners.

Appointment of the professional team and pre-construction

  • Development of project scope for briefing of the professional team.
  • Requesting fee proposals from all professionals, assessment, negotiation and finalization of appointments.
  • Overseeing the design process by external architects.
  • Pre-Construction: holding bi-weekly team meetings with professional team, taking minutes and following up on required items.
  • Ensuring all information required from various professionals is obtained and timelines & deadlines met.
  • Obtaining demolition permits and dealing with council related applications.
  • Setting up of project timelines and ensuring all items are attended to – from council submissions, preparation of marketing images and brochures, project launch and site commencement.
  • Assisting with marketing brochures for developments – obtaining relevant plans, 3D renders, interviews etc.
  • Work within selected PC allowances to specify finishes on developments.
  • Assist with NHBRC registration and enrolment.
  • Arranging various insurances required for construction commencement.
  • Negotiation of professional fee drawdown requests, monthly monitoring and payment of the professional team.

Construction period

  • Attend weekly site meetings and provide relevant info to professional team timeously.
  • Assess monthly cost reports from QS and prepare documentation for feedback to Investment partners.
  • Monitor project timelines & builders programme.
  • Monitor Contractors quality on site.
  • Prepare documentation for monthly drawdowns from the bank for timeous payments of contractors and the professional team.
  • Drive the process of obtaining required info for the Occupancy Certificate and allow for timeous transfer of end units.
  •  Ability to bring in projects on time and on budget.

Please note that the ‘qualifications and requirements’ section is the most important. We assume that many of the ‘duties’ will be learnt while at Horizon Capital.

Please send your CV to Terry Witter – terryw@horizoncapital.co.za

How To Save Water – 5 Simple Steps

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In light of Cape Town’s on-going drought, businesses need to know how to save water.  Since people spend around 8 hours per day at work, businesses consume vast amounts of water.  We have put together a short and simple list of ways businesses can save water.

1. How To Save Water? Awareness Is Number 1!

The best way to conserve our most precious and scarce resource is education. Simply making staff aware of the issue and how to help is by far the simplest and most effective method of saving water.

  • Limit your usage – Be conscious not to let taps run unnecessarily while making alternative arrangements like utilizing water coolers for drinking.
  • If its yellow, let it mellow – Every flush of a toilet can use at least 3 litres of water, rather consolidate a few uses into one flush
  • Washing of dishes – Try make use of recyclable cutlery and crockery.

As discovered by Jeremy Clarkson, fuel efficiency is not necessarily dictated by what car one drives, but rather how one drives it.  Similarly, the saving of water is dependent on how we use it.

2. Install Private Water Meters

If your business is located within a body corporate, you might want to think about installing a private water meter for your office. While this will not directly save water, it will certainly provide you with direct feedback on usage. This will allow you to monitor how much water is being used and implement your own water saving measures.

3. Install Water Efficient Taps

Switch out your old fashioned taps for more efficient units or simply add aerators to your current taps. This will help stem the flow of water and reduce usage. Standard taps can use 20 to 30 litres of water per minute which can be reduced to 6 to 10 litres!

4. Adjust Toilet Flushes / Waterless Urinals

Firstly, the addition of dual flush systems allow for appropriate usage of water per flush. Secondly, adjusting the flush on the toilets can decrease usage to 9 Liters (Full Flush) / 3 Litres (Half Flush) – A decrease from around 13 litres in traditional toilets. Waterless urinals make use of one way valves to drain and require absolutely no water for flushing!

5. Don’t irrigate / Use Non-Potable Water

There should be absolutely no irrigation with potable water. Should your office building require irrigation, it is absolutely imperative that non-potable / treated effluent water is used. We have seen great results in Century City of treated effluent water being used for irrigation where Rabie Property Administrators and CCPOA have really stepped up to the plate with water conservation efforts.

Horizon Capital is dedicated to water conservation and undertakes to save water in all of our 75 managed commercial properties in Cape Town.

Horizon Capital Attends UCT Careers Day

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Rahla Schaffer, Catherine Bond and Henri de Wet of Horizon Capital attended the UCT Careers Day held on 2 August 2014.

Horizon Capital recently attended a Careers Day at the University of Cape Town held by The Association of Built Environment Students (ABES) for students that fall within the Property Studies, Construction Studies, Quantity Surveying, Construction Management and other related fields.

Over the years, Horizon Capital has employed numerous BSc Honours Property Studies graduates, as well as a quantity surveyor and an architect. It was a good opportunity for Horizon Capital to give back to the University, as well as to interact with future graduates.

The Careers Day was very successful and excellent feedback was received from the students who attended.

 

Corporate Responsibility

Corporate Responsibility

At Horizon Capital, we understand that in order to be a truly successful business, we need to integrate economic, social and environmental sustainability into our business at a strategic level. One of our fundamental values is to contribute to the sustainable development of South Africa, both through our core business activities and through special initiatives.

We create jobs through our property development activities; we foster entrepreneurship and the growth of small and medium businesses through our corporate finance division; and we try to minimise our carbon footprint, both in our own office and in the properties developed and managed by us. We also continuously undertake social welfare projects, some of which are shown below.

Child Welfare & Education

Every year, Horizon Capital sponsors a number of children through Operation Shoebox, an independent, accredited non-profit organisation which collects and distributes Christmas gifts to disadvantaged children across a network of children's charities in Cape Town. Donors are supplied with the child's name, age, gender, clothing and shoe size, and some information about them so that donors can personalise the gift.

Horizon Capital also supports initiatives such as the Cape Town Child Welfare Society, Learn to Earn, Bright Start Education Support Programme, The Rachel Swart Fund and the Peninsula School Feeding Association.

Donation of Equipment & Materials

Whenever opportunities arise to give back to our community, Horizon Capital is very happy to get involved. For example, we have recently donated a computer to one of our staff members, Grace, to assist her son in his academic pursuits. Grace was also able to re-tile and re-carpet her family’s house using building materials donated by Horizon Capital.

 

Horizon Capital offices

Horizon Capital (Pty) Ltd
Suite 302, Soho on Strand
128 Strand Street
De Waterkant
Cape Town
8001

+27 21 425 8586
info@horizoncapital.co.za

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