The Civil Engineering Contractor October 2018 | Page 8

ON PROJECT OWNERS’ DESKS

The first green-certified hospital in Africa is set for construction in South Africa at a cost of USD34-million. This is after real estate investment trust Growthpoint Properties and private company Cintocare recently broke ground for its construction in Pretoria.

The 11 000m 2 hospital will be an exclusively surgical headand-neck hospital and also a spinal and vascular surgery with highly specialised medical professionals and state-of-the-art technology. Reports confirm that the mega building will comprise seven floors, including the hospital plant room, three clinical and consulting levels, and three parking levels. The 100-bed hospital has the built-in capacity to expand to 160 beds and will have five theatres, one of which is a hybrid.

The development partnership is delivering the full suite of services for the hospital, from inception to completion. It will be located adjacent to Menlyn Maine Central Square. Growthpoint Healthcare Property Holdings’ investment mandate allows it to invest in greenfield investments, thereby playing a leading role in promoting the growth of the health care sector by providing the capital to build new health care facilities.

Growthpoint’ s in-house development team and Cintocare are applying their mutual experience to achieve the goal of creating a clinical centre of excellence. This project has been a year in the planning and is the result of a wide collaboration of its operators, doctors, promoters, developers, owners, and other stakeholders. Construction of the green-certified hospital will commence in August this year and is scheduled for completion during the first quarter of 2020.

Construction of civil and infrastructure works for the proposed USD70-million 50-room luxury hotel on Platte Island in the Seychelles.

Initial concrete-laying work on the runway was done by IDC and completed mid-August 2017. The construction of the 50 to 60-room hotel on Platte Island is now expected to start later in 2018. A feasibility study and environmental impact assessment have been done, and the project is expected to start once the local planning authority gives its approval.

Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean, has imposed a moratorium on hotel development but this is not affected by the Platte development, which was already approved by the government some years back.

Located 171km south-east of Mahe, the main island, Platte, has a land area of 0.54km 2 and is low and flat with an encircling reef containing a lagoon. It is being leased by IDC for its development and management. The project, which had two previous developers, belongs to Platte Island Development Limited— current owners of the Four Seasons hotel group, with 80 % shareholding. As IDC has always been a partner in its island development project, the company is a minority shareholder with 20 % shareholding.

The IDC will rent the land to the developer for 60 years and, at the end of that period, all infrastructure will go back to IDC, which is owned by the government and tasked with the responsibility to manage and develop the islands that fall under its administration.

Located 171km south-east of Mahe, the main island, Platte, has a land area of 0.54km 2 and is low and flat with an encircling reef containing a lagoon. www. piedansleau. sc

6- CEC October 2018