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Cape Gate Medi-Clinic – making its mark!
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Source: Gys van der Westhuizen & Jannie du Toit
In harmony with the environment
This 19 500m2 hospital has been designed to achieve a balance between aesthetics and an environmentally-friendly design. Emphasis has been placed on natural and energy-efficient lighting through-out the nursing units and administration areas, and a water recovery plant is being installed to recycle autoclave and grey water for irrigation purposes.
Standby generators and a UPS system will ensure that the hospital can operate safely and without interruption should there be a loss of electricity supply.
Stefanutti Stocks Building Western Cape commenced with the construction of the first major Medi-Clinic hospital, the Cape Gate Medi-Clinic in Kraaifontein in early 2008.
The 140-bed Medi-Clinic hospital, scheduled to open in March 2010, comprises of three and four-storey blocks with approximately 530 parking bays for visitors and staff. Facilities include 24-hour emergency centre, six operating theatres, an ICU, obstetrics unit with neonatal ICU, a pharmacy, pathology department, radiology department, consulting rooms and a restaurant.
The hospital is at an advanced stage of finishing and we have recently submitted the ICU for works completion and
received a works completion certificate for the floor containing all the transformers, electrical switchgear, standby generators as well as the basement parking and the morgue and other storerooms. “At each inspection, a three-man team scrutinizes every inch of the building,” says Jannie du Toit. “They are looking not only at quality and aesthetics but also at the ergonomics and practicality of the new facility”. Many of the areas inside the hospital are ultra-hygienic areas making it essential that they are thoroughly sealed against ingress of dust and other particles.
In addition to the other usual services installed in ceiling voids such as air conditioning, electrical, telephones, data cabling etc, we also have to install medical gas throughout, to serve each ward and bed through a vertical service panel situated at each bed position. In addition a nurse call system from each bed to the nurse station in each ward also has to be installed to facilitate emergencies and service to patients. A direct link from the radiology unit to the theatres and doctors consulting rooms for transmission of x-ray images also form part of the services installation.
The three passenger lifts situated at the end of the link passages, are being commissioned and will be ready for the delivery of hospital equipment e.g. autoclaves, theatre beds and furniture.
We have received the design layouts for the 3 753m2 area of doctors consulting rooms and their completion will coincide with the completion of rest of the building.
Site works, parking areas, roads and landscaping is progressing well and will be ready for handover on programme.
The latest edition to the Medi-Clinic Private Hospital Group is scheduled to open during March 2010.
Quantities:
8 183m3 of concrete
1 675 190 bricks
18 000m3 of earthworks
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