Architect and Builder Magazine South Africa May/June 2015 | Page 54

Detailed planning has
gone into ensuring that
Mediclinic Midstream
places as little strain
on the surrounding
community and
environment as possible

Electrically, the ‘green’ effect of indigenous
plants and other growth will be used to soften the
energy loads of the environment on the building.
The rest of the storm water systems will collect
and re-use water. On-site waste sorting will be
introduced to retain as much recyclable material
as possible, thereby keeping to a minimum the
quantity of waste bound for landfill sites.
MEDICLINIC MIDSTREAM BY NUMBERS
2,446,145 Number of bricks used in
building the structure

15,427m2 External paint
29,021m2 Internal wall paint
8,685m2 Metal sheeting used for the roof
43,000m2 The amount of site cleared

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ELECTRONIC ENGINEER’S COMMENT
In the pre-internet protocol (IP) world, hospital
communication systems were primarily
devoted to telephone systems and life safety
monitoring applications such as nurse call
systems and fire alarms. Today, multimedia,
vital medical equipment and data-intensive
clinical and/or diagnostic systems are placing
huge demands on hospital communication
infrastructures. Diverse IT applications and
platforms, common among health care
providers today, create a significant degree
of complexity, raise costs and lengthen
implementation time. A converged, radically
simplified architecture, which eliminates
the complexity and reduces the cost of

Mediclinic Midstream