Project category: Health

We provided quantity surveying services for the alterations and additions to this intermediate paediatric care facility in Montana, Cape Town, home to 150 of society’s most vulnerable children since the Pallottine Sisters founded the facility in the 1950s. The project reworked wards originally built to separate children by race under apartheid, replacing that spatial paradigm with therapeutic spaces, parent and child meeting areas, and reconnected courtyards at the heart of the complex. It also involved reusing, repairing, and shifting existing electrical and water systems throughout the facility, a complex exercise that left the Home with an efficient, robust environment without disrupting ongoing care.

As Professional Quantity Surveyors, our role involved cost control and management of the overall project. The project went on to receive a Cape Institute Commendation Award for Architecture in 2017, recognition of a transformation made possible by a donation that grew from R7 million to R40 million once carer wellbeing was placed at the centre of the brief.

We returned to Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital with Charlotte Chamberlain and Nicola Irving Architects, this time reconfiguring and altering the hospital’s trust offices to better suit the team’s day to day needs for enclosed offices and meeting spaces.

Our role covered cost planning and cost management for the alteration, including a small new extension tucked under the hospital’s trees with mountain views, a practical breakroom, and a boardroom finished with sliding glass doors patterned in the hospital’s own branding. The result is a set of well-organised, purpose-built spaces that give the trust’s team the privacy and functionality their work requires.

We provided quantity surveying services for this new retirement village for the Dominican Sisters at Springfield Convent and School in Wynberg. Transforming a once inward-looking section of the historic grounds into a home connected to the school’s daily life. An existing stone cottage forms the core of a spine that climbs the slope through three linked buildings, adapting the original structure and adding two new buildings, arranged around a series of courtyards opening toward the school.

As Professional Quantity Surveyors, our role covered cost planning and budget management for a project that salvaged existing vegetation and building materials before construction began, and balanced heritage sensitivity with the practical needs of an aging community, including pellet fireplace heating, north facing windows, and good cross ventilation throughout the frail care rooms. A small chapel with cast glass windows by artist Abraham Leroux anchors the home as a place built for a religious order, without losing sight of budget or programme.

We worked with Charlotte Chamberlain and Nicola Irving Architects on an extensive office alteration and upgrade at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, reworking existing office space to better serve the hospital’s day to day operations.

Our role covered cost planning and cost management across the upgrade, including a new multi-functional room designed to flex between conferences, small group sessions and classroom-style teaching, alongside refreshed meeting and boardrooms finished with warm timber doors and durable, easy-care finishes throughout. The result is a more functional, better resourced administrative space that gives the hospital’s team room to meet, train and collaborate exactly when they need it.

We hold a framework appointment providing quantity surveying services for maintenance projects at Tygerberg Hospital, one of the largest hospitals in the Western Cape. Two projects completed under this appointment show the range of the work: an upgrade to one of the hospital’s service tunnels, and a milestone infrastructure project for South Africa.

The service tunnel project covered structural repairs and a full redecoration of the space, while the second saw the hospital’s entire bulk sewer system relined using a first of its kind CIPP lining system in South Africa, a technically demanding project where we provided full cost control services from start to finish. Being trusted with cost certainty on a project of this scale and significance speaks to the depth of experience we bring to complex infrastructure and maintenance work.