and ICU’s, creating a surgical centre of excellence
and Cath labs adjacent to relevant CCU & medical
wards creating a cardiac centre of excellence).
• dispensing of equipment.
• the footprint at each level of the ten hospital floors
could meet the requirements for world class
hospital design and comply with Department of
Health (DoH) regulations.
The timeline for the preparation of the lease
agreement, started in August 2010 and concluded
in a conditional lease being signed in December
2011, provides some idea of the complexity
involved, but the process was still not complete.
It was important to develop the designs to an
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extent that no uncertainty existed when ‘shell’
construction started.
The 16 months that followed the signing of the
lease involved extensive design development of
the building from both the landlord and Netcare
in order to fulfil the predevelopment events and
DoH requirements. The lease was concluded
unconditionally in April 2013.
HOSPITAL BRIEF AND VALUE ENGINEERING
The design of the ‘fit out construction’ started in
early 2012 with the drafting of an outline brief and
accommodation schedule prepared jointly by the
design team and Netcare CBMH operations.
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