Beacon Bay hotel floor collapses in the rain, no injuries reported

30 July 2015 - 13:03 By Mike Loewe And Asanda Nini

A small portion of cement flooring has collapsed at the construction site of a hotel and mall being built at Beacon Bay Crossing. The Daily Dispatch was unable to get comment from the developers on Wednesday.The collapse came after 83mm of rain at the weekend on top of rain the previous weekend.Weather experts warned on Friday that the ground was supersaturated and that run-offs were expected.An anonymous caller alerted the Dispatch to the mini-disaster.Dispatch photographer Mark Andrews said he saw a patch of cement flooring had fallen to the ground.“There was reinforced steel and wiring lying on the ground. Workers were busy at the site.”He estimated that about 15m² of first floor had come down.In January‚ Gavin Crisswell‚ portfolio manager for the SKG‚ announced they were building a four-star hotel which formed part of a fourth-phase R350-million development on the man-made hill at Beacon Bay Crossing.Completion of the hotel‚ with a mall and 1400 parking bays‚ is expected by 2017.On Wednesday‚ Crisswell did not answer emails or his cellphone.Movie theatres are also planned alongside the 120-room hotel‚ as well as an upmarket fresh food supermarket.SKG is run by East London entrepreneur and developer Jean du Plessis.Architectural video footage of the hotel portrays a retro-1960s look of curvy lounge suites around a curling column of stairs.On Thursday‚ the site looked a little less inviting than this projection. – RDM News Wire, Daily Dispatch..

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