Architecture & Construction
Extensive experience providing design services, project management, product sourcing, negotiating between contractors, clients and suppliers and maintaining excellent quality and standards at all levels of implementation.
Attention to detail in aesthetics, and visual balance in all areas of design of residential living space. This includes the all-important technology integration into the living space. Work, plan, manage and implement in all levels of construction for the primary site and the individual homes the following: Civils (Stormwater, Water, Electrical reticulation, Telecom), Earthworks & Blasting, Site planning, Costing, Legal documents, Construction, Finishing & detailing, Landscaping, Interior Design and flow, Structural design and manufacture (such as stairs and balustrade, this includes both steel and wooden components).
Residential Estate – Bryanston
This project began as a 6500m2 piece of land that I rezoned and sub-divided into 6 portions of freehold title land. Legal documentation was compiled outlining a homeowners association with governing rules and regulations of the estate, architectural guidelines, and specifications. A site development plan was created with initial architectural concepts based on land dimensions.
A professional team was brought onboard to lay down a roadmap for doing the development. The to cover all aspects of the project which included:
Legal;
Quantity Surveying;
Civil Engineering;
Structural Engineering;
Electrical Engineering;
Architectural;
Town Planning;
Marketing;
I compiled marketing information packs and brochures with a schedule of expected finishes with price point options. Adverts were then run in the property section of relevant newspapers and various marketing billboards.
The land was sold to individual buyers with a development agreement. Plans were then drawn up with each purchaser and detailed finish specifications compiled with costing for final approval.
Once each contract was finalised, construction commenced.
The project took 4 years to rollout and complete. That process taught me a great deal about people, expectations, and their ability to visualise a finished solution whilst in the concept phase.
My scope of work included design services, development management, project management, product sourcing, negotiating between contractors, clients and suppliers and maintaining excellent quality and standards at all levels of implementation, as well as the construction of the primary site and the individual homes from:
Civils;
Electrical reticulation;
Earthworks & Blasting;
Site planning;
Construction;
Finishing;
Landscaping;
Interior Design and flow;
Technology integration;
Structural design and manufacture (such as stairs and balustrade, this includes both steel and wooden components).
Site clearing, demolition and preperation
Removed 72 alien and poisonous trees, which were eventually replaced with an equal amount of indiginous trees.
Setup for blasting 600m3 of granite
Earthworks and civils
42 Ton crusher converting the blast rock into material for the internal road and a tennis court.
42 Ton crusher converting the blast rock into material for the internal road and a tennis court.
Load testing of steel structure of the staircases
