Sustainability framework
Built from what others throw away.
Project Motion is engineered around a simple thesis: the most sustainable Olympic-grade campus on the continent isn't a slogan - it's a procurement strategy, a water plan, and an energy budget. Here's how it works.
01
Recycled by default
Every venue targets 70-90% recycled material content - molded ocean plastic, tyre-rubber matting, fly-ash concrete, reclaimed invasive-species timber. Local sourcing first.
10-20 tons
of recovered ocean plastic per venue
02
Circular water
The adjacent Melkbosstrand WWTW supplies a closed loop for lagoon top-up, surface dust control and fynbos irrigation, with UV filtration to keep water safe for athletes.
R2-R8
per kilolitre recycled, vs R35-R45 potable
03
Cape sun, only
Rooftop solar arrays carry baseline lighting, EV charging and venue operations. Programmable wave tech and starting gates run on stored solar.
100%
renewable power target
04
Fynbos first
Indigenous fynbos, palms and aloes line every lagoon edge, ramp edge and viewing deck inside the enclosed envelope - restoring biodiversity, softening interior acoustics and holding humidity without irrigation.
0 m²
of non-native landscaping
Water economics
An action sports campus run on recycled municipal water.
A tertiary treatment upgrade at the Melkbosstrand WWTW - UV plus multimedia filtration - supplies the surf lagoon at R2-R8 per kilolitre against a potable rate of R35-R45. Over a 40-year lifecycle that arbitrage is worth R90M-R250M, and it makes the claim certifiable rather than aspirational.
Established internationally, and intended to be the first at this scale in South Africa.
R90M-R250M
40-year cost saving
UV + multimedia
Tertiary filtration upgrade
650-850 m
Pipeline run from the WWTW
Proven internationally
Surf parks already run on recycled water.
Feeding a large surf or recreational lagoon from treated, reclaimed water is established practice, not an untested idea. Several of the world's leading surf parks already do it.
Wavegarden facilitySpain
Draws make-up water from the local municipal treatment plant's filtration system to offset evaporation losses from the lagoon - the same pipeline principle proposed here.
Adventure Parc SnowdoniaWales
Fills its surf lagoon from recycled outflow water and disinfects with UV rather than chlorine.
URBNSURF MelbourneAustralia
Runs on harvested and treated stormwater from an adjacent catchment system, cutting potable water use.
Surf Ranch, LemooreCalifornia, USA
Operates a lagoon of roughly 15 million gallons on a filtration, UV and chlorine treatment train at full commercial scale.
The facilities below are public industry reference examples only. Project Motion has no agreement, partnership or relationship of any kind with any of them.
Safe for human use
Treated to a standard set for people to swim in.
A regulated category, not an experiment
Tertiary-treated recycled water for recreational water bodies is a defined, permitted use. California's Title 22 recycled-water rules and the equivalent Australian guidelines both set standards for lake fill and landscape impoundments, and South African use would be licensed and monitored under Department of Water and Sanitation and City of Cape Town conditions.
Off-the-shelf treatment train
Multimedia filtration, UV disinfection, residual dosing and continuous turbidity and microbiological monitoring are standard, proven equipment specified daily for public swimming water. Nothing in the proposed plant is unproven technology.
Full-contact water quality
The lagoon is designed to meet full-contact recreational water standards - the same class of standard applied to public pools and swimming beaches - with automatic monitoring and shutdown thresholds set by the water engineer appointed at design stage.
What it means for a surfer
By the time water reaches the lagoon it has been treated and disinfected to a standard set for people to swim, surf and be fully immersed in, and it is tested continuously while the venue is open.
Grant-aligned by construction.
Designs and material specs are mapped to the eligibility criteria of funders Project Motion intends to approach - IDC, NLC, FIFA Forward, PIC, DBSA and SRSA - so capital could flow through multiple funding lines simultaneously. No funder has been approached and no grant is committed.