Plumbing Africa June 2019 | Page 40

38 PROJECT Joburg CBD gets Clinix Day Hospital and Pharmacy The G.M Pitje Day Hospital, previously the Clinix Health Group’s head office, is being transformed to include a pharmacy, day hospital with surgery facilities and consulting rooms — catering to the need for medical services in the inner-city. By GDM Plumbing | Edited by Benjamin Brits | All photos Plumbing Africa The building re-development project started in May 2018 and is scheduled to be handed over at the end of May 2019. The design specification from the client was to use five of the existing nine floors at the Hospital Group’s Head Office in the Johannesburg’s central business district, to construct a new day hospital which will have three new surgical theatres, a new radiology department, as well as two floors of doctors' consulting rooms. COLD WATER SYSTEM The wet services design is based on a gravity fed system, starting with the storage tank on the rooftop of the building. From this tank, water is fed down to the floors below where the reticulation is fed via the water network to the relevant sanitary points on the floors. Due to the existing building being nine stories high, the water pressure build-up from the tank down to the various floors creates adequate pressure to sufficiently feed all water points. This eliminates the need for a pressure booster pump and reduces the reliance on any mechanical failure and water interruptions. Pipe sizing was crucial to make sure the flow to all points was sufficient, and was designed by Amaré Schütte, Mechanical Engineer of IX Engineers. June 2019 Volume 25 I Number 4 www.plumbingafrica.co.za