Sectors & Experience

Changes in lifestyle and living standards mean people expect to have access to a diverse range of leisure facilities, be they business, sport, entertainment or social activities. Increasingly, leisure sector developments are not stand-alone projects and across the African continent they are often part of a mixed-use development providing / creating a destination for the leisure or business traveller with an increase in dual branded and long stay hotel offerings. The success of a hotel and leisure facility can have far-reaching impact on the surrounding community, economy, and society. The adoption of technology and green initiatives are the key drivers for international branded hotel operators to achieve their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) mandates.

EQUATE is the leader in African leisure and hospitality developments with extensive experience in this sector. We have provided quantity surveying services in 23 countries in Africa and the Middle East, mostly with Internationally Branded Hotel Operators. A wealth of knowledge and expertise have been captured and packaged to provide our clients with the best advice and solutions for their development. We understand the design economics, value and cost drivers of hotel and leisure projects and are able to assist clients and design teams to develop the most optimum product based on design, brand requirements, efficiency, technology, sustainability and life cycle. With our vast amount of actual construction cost data across the continent we can provide accurate cost input to our clients irrespective of the location, the product or the client’s ambitions.

THE DEMAND FOR DATA CENTRES ARE EVER INCREASING IN OUR MODERN DAY AND AGE WHERE THE INFORMATION ERA IS ON THE FOREFRONT.

Equate understands the sensitivity around data centres housing IT systems and  associated components such  as telecommunications and data hosting/storage  systems, with redundant or backup power supplies, redundant data  communications connections, complex  air conditioning and fire suppression systems and various security devices.

We pride  ourselves  as experts in data centre construction cost management with a team  that has gained extensive experience on these specialised  buildings.

EQUATE HAS DEVELOPED EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN THE INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING SECTORS, WORKING WITH SOME OF THE WORLD’S LARGEST COMPANIES IN THE ROLE OUT OF THEIR CAPITAL EXPANSION PLANS ACROSS AFRICA. OUR EXPERIENCE COVERS PROJECTS OF ALL SIZES AND COMPLEXITY, FROM SMALL EXTENSIONS ON EXISTING FACILITIES TO LARGE NEW DISTRIBUTION CENTRES.

DISTRIBUTION
EQUATE understands distribution and logistics are important to business performance and profitability. Our experience includes  the construction of  shell units for either owner-occupiers or speculative developers.

MANUFACTURING AND INDUSTRIAL
EQUATE has extensive experience in the diverse manufacturing and industrial sector, across the spectrum of  sub-sectors. As a result, we can provide in-depth  and relevant knowledge  to any project.

WAREHOUSING
EQUATE has worked with a range of retail clients to provide warehouse space across the continent. Delivering projects ranging from shell specification construction to specialist fit-outs, we have developed an extensive range of specialists services in the industrial, manufacturing and retail sectors.

THROUGH YEARS OF RESEARCH EQUATE HAS GARNERED EXPERTISE TO ADVISE BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND PARTNERS. WE UNDERSTAND THAT SCHOOLS, HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS HAVE DIFFERENT REQUIREMENTS AND COST DRIVERS THAT DETERMINE DESIGN AND FUNCTIONALITY.

Our experience and knowledge provides:  

• A balance between aesthetics and cost.
• Inspiring innovativeness within the building environment for a conducive learning environment.
• Providing calculated advice on a diverse student mix within buildings to improve communication learning.  
• Balancing the student requirements with the allocated financial assistance budgets to fully utilize the resources available without compromise.

WITH THE MAJOR NEED FOR HEALTHCARE ACROSS AFRICA, FROM PRIMARY TO TERTIARY CARE, WE HAVE ALIGNED OURSELVES WITH INDUSTRY SPECIALISTS IN ORDER TO OFFER BOTH PRIVATE AND PUBLIC ENTERPRISES WITH SUITABLE SOLUTIONS.

This range from pre-fabricated remote site clinics  to state of the art hospitals. EQUATE are continuing to build on our core disciplines and expertise to meet market needs with a team of consultants from  varied professional  backgrounds. We provide customers with strategic healthcare advice  and hands on support through all aspects of business  process re-engineering, performance monitoring, organisational change, continuous improvement, estate reconfiguration and project and programme implementation.

EQUATE HAS WORKED EXTENSIVELY TO DELIVER RETAIL DEVELOPMENTS MAINLY TO PREVIOUSLY UNDERSERVICED OR UNCHARTED AREAS IN SOUTH AFRICA AND ACROSS THE AFRICAN CONTINENT. ALONG WITH OUR LOCAL ALLIANCES WE HAVE MANAGED TO DELIVER NEW SHOPPING EXPERIENCES TO THE DOORSTEPS OF MANY PEOPLE.

Our office has handled various types of retail centers from  convenience neighbourhood  centers, value marts, rural shopping centers and regional malls etc. 

Our experience allows us to value engineer shopping centers that not only make for good investment opportunities but also quality shopping and relaxing environments. This  all stemming in our  ability to maximize  the desired quality  of the “look & feel”  through our rigorous procurement and  financial scrutiny.

THE COMMERCIAL SECTOR COVERS A RANGE OF BUILDING TYPES AND BUSINESS USES, FROM SMALL OFFICE BUILDINGS TO LARGE BUSINESS PARKS, NEW-BUILD HEADQUARTERS TO REFURBISHMENT OF HERITAGE BUILDINGS.

Projects involve multiple stakeholders, including funders, developers, owner occupiers and short and long term tenants. EQUATE has extensive experience in supporting and working with each of these distinct groups. We understand, protect and promote their varied business objectives.

Whether a project  involves a new build or refurbishment,  fit-out or  just new furniture, our commercial teams provide a range of services  to cover every aspect of the project, including risk, value and cost management, project  monitoring and building surveying. The way we capture, share and apply sector knowledge, gathered through our international experience on complex and challenging projects, is what differentiates us from others.

HAVING BEEN INVOLVED EXTENSIVELY ON VARIOUS MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS, EQUATE IS WELL EQUIPPED TO MERGE VARIOUS SUB- PROJECTS INTO A SINGLE INFRA-STRUCTURE OR ROLL-OUT PROGRAMME.

We focus on service delivery of major developments, by providing a management service at programme level filtering down into various  sub-projects for the private and public sectors.

Our work includes:

• Programme cost management 
• Procurement management
• Cost management
• Cost and feasibility advisory to investors and owners