Business staff

A landmark high-tech R20-million building in a rapidly expanding industrial area of Nelson Mandela Bay will be home to about 200 000 boxes of vital documents later this year.

Specialist firm Metrofile said yesterday it would be moving its Port Elizabeth operations to a new site in Perseverance.

Construction of the building – the highest structure of its type in the area at more than 22 metres, according to Metrofile – is due for completion by May.

“The facility . . . will be the Eastern Cape‘s first purpose-built records storage and management facility,” said company regional general manager Brett Harris.

“(It) will consist of a modern office and administration block, a fully SA Bureau of Standards-rated and climate controlled storage vault and an adjoining warehouse structure,” said Harris.

“Importantly, provision has been made for future growth by ensuring that the property is sufficient to house two further warehouses,” he added.

Source: The Herald