We’re keeping our smart city in tip-top shape!

We’re striving to stay on top of things!  Through pro-active planning and incorporating smart city innovations and principles, we are constantly busy with remedial work and have a rolling budget for substantial capital infrastructure projects. In fact, we try and put away a little at a time for a rainy day, just in case.

The Century City Property Owners’ Association (CCPOA) acts like a mini municipality for Century City in addition to the City of Cape Town, with whom we have a very important and positive relationship.  We continuously engage with the City of Cape Town from security to maintenance and infrastructure matters. 

Our teams look after all aspects of the common areas, from transport to landscaping and security in the precinct.  All property owners at Century City automatically become members of the CCPOA.

Advancement of Century City as a quality development reflecting its aspirational lifestyle and ensuring investors, residents, business workers, shoppers and visitors perceive added value.

In terms of repairs, maintenance, and infrastructure, we try our best to be pro-active so that our smart city remains in world-class shape.

Pavement Management and Road Repairs

The CCPOA makes use of a pavement management system which is generally accepted as being essential for determining the maintenance needs of pavements in a network of roads. It first identifies maintenance projects from an assessment of the condition of the road network and it then determines the most economical design of the maintenance treatment. During the latest assessment, CCPOA-owned roads that require major rehabilitation were identified which is scheduled to take place during the second half of 2023 at a cost of over R8 million.  

The total length of the CCPOA road network is 13.0km (8.19km tar and 4.81km paved) with a total replacement value of R86 million.  Century Boulevard and Century Avenue are owned and maintained by the City of Cape Town.

In addition to the road repairs, the rehabilitation project encompasses the restoration of 26 pedestrian crossings, with a proposed solution involving the use of a polymeric thermoplastic coating. The Century City Traffic Engineers, in partnership with BVI, are currently examining the legal aspects associated with these types of crossings. Their findings and recommendations will be presented to the Engineering & Infrastructure Committee for consideration before a final decision is made to proceed with the innovative solution.

Infrastructure and Road Painting

Our comprehensive annual infrastructure painting program was successfully carried out. This involved repainting bridges, walls, buildings, guardhouses, and street light posts in accordance with the multi-year painting schedule.  The CCPOA road markings are scheduled to be painted as part of the upcoming road rehabilitation project later in the year. Furthermore, the City of Cape Town has also recently completed the repainting of road markings on the city-owned roads within Century City, including the pedestrian crossings on Century Boulevard and Century Avenue.

Winter preparedness plan

Since March, in preparation for the winter rain, our staff have been hard at work clearing the stormwater system.  This work has been done to help prevent blockages and consequent flooding and to ensure that pollutants do not enter the canal system during the first heavy winter rainfall.

As part of the CCPOA’s winter preparedness plan, more than 250 CCPOA and City of Cape Town stormwater inlets, catch pits, drains, Ysterplaat and Summer Greens culverts and channels have been checked and cleaned of litter, sand, and plant debris.  The entire system will be re-checked again after winter.

Power outage business continuity plan

It is generally accepted that loadshedding will be a regular feature in South Africa for at least the next 18 months, if not significantly longer. Higher levels of load-shedding (stage eight and beyond) are very likely to be experienced during the winter months when demand on the grid is significantly higher than the rest of the year. The consequences of disruption for CCPOA due to prolonged high loadshedding and/or a total grid collapse of, say, two weeks need to be considered.

As part of CCPOA’s risk mitigation strategy, a Business Impact Analysis (BIA) has been concluded to predict the consequences of such disruption to service functions and processes and to gather information needed to develop recovery strategies.  A key component of the BIA has been to determine a list of critical systems and processes across all CCPOA divisions that must be maintained during a power outage and a list of backup power options, from generators and battery backups to renewable energy options.  These prioritised objectives will guide CCPOA’s financial focus to mitigate these risks.