Services - Six things you can appoint me for.
Architectural, design and project management — the three words on the logo — plus the three specialisms that twenty-six years of large projects produced along the way.
Architectural design
Twenty-six years of design work across nine sectors and eight countries, taken through every stage: brief interrogation, site and feasibility analysis, concept, schematic design, design development, specification, tender documentation and construction issue.
The range matters. A 792-bed paediatric hospital and a USD 325k workshop demand the same discipline — a clear brief, a resolved plan, drawings that a contractor can build from without a queue of RFIs.
What you receive
- Site and feasibility analysis
- Concept and schematic design
- Design development and detail design
- Outline and full specifications
- Tender and construction documentation
- Local authority and statutory submissions
Design management and coordination
On large projects the design risk is rarely in any one discipline. It is in the gaps between them: the duct that lands in a beam, the level that changes between two consultants’ models, the requirement that nobody owns.
This is the work of chasing those gaps closed. It has been done at the scale of a 1.88m m² university health sciences campus and a 25,000 m² live airport terminal, and at the scale of a single substation control building.
What you receive
- Design programme and stage gate management
- Cross-discipline coordination and clash resolution
- Consultant and contractor interface management
- RFI resolution and change control
- BIM coordination and tender models
- Value engineering without losing the design intent
Project management and principal agency
Appointments as principal agent, project director and delivery director on projects from 28-unit apartment blocks to a R2.9bn airport terminal — running the contract, not just drawing the building.
That includes the parts clients rarely enjoy: holding a contractor to the specification, phasing works around a hospital that cannot close, and telling a client early when a programme is not going to hold.
What you receive
- Principal agent appointment
- Programme and phasing strategy
- Contract administration and payment certification
- Site inspections and progress reporting
- Phased construction in live operational buildings
- Client, consultant and authority coordination
Design review and technical assurance
Reviewer and verifier work for large development clients: assessing lead-consultant and contractor submissions against the brief, the code and the standards, and saying clearly what is not yet good enough.
This has covered asset reviews at NEOM, tenant fit-out compliance at KAFD, design review management across MISK schools and mobility hubs, and building the approval workflows and procedural manuals a review function needs to operate consistently.
What you receive
- Independent design and peer review
- Compliance and code verification
- Contractor and consultant submission assessment
- Approval workflows and procedural manuals
- Technical audit and gap reporting
- Lead verifier and approver accreditation
Healthcare and specialist facility planning
The deepest specialism in the practice. Medical planning across acute, maternity, paediatric, outpatient, dialysis, rehabilitation, IVF and community health facilities — and the two largest specialist hospitals of their type in the world.
In South Africa the work also runs through Department of Health approvals and licensing requirements, which shape a plan far more than most briefs admit.
What you receive
- Clinical brief development and departmental briefing
- Medical planning and adjacency modelling
- Bed, theatre and clinic scheduling
- Department of Health and licensing approvals
- Phased refurbishment of operational facilities
- Specialist facility peer review
SANS 10400-XA energy compliance
SANS 10400-XA competency accredited by the South African Bureau of Standards. Energy-efficiency compliance is a hard gate on plan approval, and the route chosen at concept stage decides how expensive it becomes later.
Assessment early, on the drawings you already have, rather than a rational design bolted on after the plan is submitted.
What you receive
- SANS 10400-XA compliance assessment
- Deemed-to-satisfy and rational design routes
- Building envelope and glazing strategy
- Compliance documentation for plan submission
- Early-stage design advice to avoid rework
Engagement - Three ways this usually starts.
Most work arrives as one of these. If yours does not, say so anyway — it is usually a variation on the second one.
A full appointment
Architect and principal agent from brief to practical completion. The conventional route, and the one where the discipline compounds most — every early decision is made by the person who will have to build on it.
A defined stage
Feasibility, medical planning, a schematic design, a tender package, a SANS 10400-XA assessment. A scoped piece of work with a clear deliverable, alongside your existing team.
An independent opinion
Peer review of a design, a consultant submission or a contractor’s claim. Fastest to arrange, and the one clients most often wish they had asked for sooner.
Tell me about your project
Whether it is a brief that needs shaping, a design that needs an independent pair of eyes, or a project that needs someone to hold the whole thing together — say which one it is, and you will get a straight answer on whether I am the right person for it.