Architect and Builder November/December 2015 | Page 49

The building’s four TV studios form the heart of the client’s brief. The technical requirements that the studios had to adhere to posed a number of unique construction challenges. stage leading into the preparation of tender documentation for the demolitions as well as for the principal building contract to be prepared and released to achieve the early start dates. The indicative construction programme was prepared which informed the construction packages tender and procurement schedule as well as the design documentation programme. The procurement policy for the project was agreed based on prevailing market conditions to tender all construction packages. The preparation of a construction packages tender and procurement schedule, which also addressed the typical long lead in times associated with installations such as flush glazed curtain walling facades, elevators, mechanical and electrical plant etc, was undertaken. ETV Head Office The imperative nature of achieving timeous issue of constr X