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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
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