Anyone who's ever visited the building site of Obz Square - the seven-storey residence that will accommodate 887 students from 2012 - will know that everyone there takes safety very seriously.

It's an ethic that's earned the construction company working on the site, NMC Construction, third place in the R200-R500-million category of this year's Master Builders and Allied Trades Association Western Cape (MBAWC) Safety Competition.

It's the second MBAWC award that NMC has received for their work on Obz Square - they were runners-up in the same category in 2010.