30 PROJECT
Supplied by Hazendal Hotel
No slippery slopes here
By
Tanya Olckers
A newly built luxury boutique hotel in the Cape winelands gets water system and drainage installation .
Stellenbosch is a gorgeous part of the country , and the Hazendal Luxury Boutique Hotel is a venue that brings its guests timeless beauty , incomparable luxury and a touch of refinement . When it came time to create hot- and cold-water systems and drainage designs for the new building , the hotel owners knew that this would take a team that understood their needs .
Fire Mechanical Wet Services Engineers ( FMW ) collaborated with Boogertman & Partners Architects and sat at the drawing board for two years creating the design of the system , which had to take into account a number of blocks of the hotel on a sloping site .
To kick the process off , many hours of conceptualisation and coordination took place during the initial inception stages . This ensured that the concept would work with that type of building while also ensuring that the client ’ s specific needs were met .
“ A single central hot water generating plant had to serve all the blocks , and it was challenging to co-ordinate and create the pipe routes to the various blocks while also ensuring the system remained efficient due to long pipe runs ,” says Niel Strydom , an engineer with FMW .
Supplied by FMW
Circulating pumps .
Along with taking the layout of the area into account , building aesthetics and the practicality of pipe routes had to be taken into consideration . Some of these pipe routes were outside of the building , and those located internally were situated within limited ceiling spaces .
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