🚧UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Latest drone shots of the R3.2 billion private Afrikaans university being developed on a 220-hectare site in Pretoria East. A week after the team cast the dome’s ring beam inside what will become an amphitheatre at Akademia’s campus, they began exposing the concrete and tensioning the cables. The central needle will reach 25 metres high, while the ring beam stands 13 metres tall and measures 33 metres in diameter. The project has already involved pouring 280 tonnes of concrete to create a dome spanning 850m2. Quick facts about the development: • Completion: 2028 • Location: near Boschkop Road, 8 km from Solomon Mahlangu Drive • First phase is valued at: R1.8 billion • The campus includes: learning centres, sporting facilities, a library, offices, an amphitheatre, coffee shops, an agricultural facility with its own farm, a cafeteria, a student centre, lecture rooms and laboratories. It will also include 8 student residences with 1,500 beds. Akademia is targeting an initial enrolment of 3,500 students studying on campus in its first year. Latest construction images are below, along with a render of the amphitheatre dome (📸: Kanton)