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

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