Building Services
As an integrated hub of technological intelligence, GIBB’s expertise and skill ensures a wide range of pertinent, efficient solutions for the built environment. GIBB has experience in a wide range of buildings, including shopping centres, retail, offices, computer centres, hotels, conference centres, residential, industrial, distribution centres and warehouses, education, hospital and clinic, recreational facilities and sports stadia, prisons, airports, railway stations, government- and utilities buildings.
Electrical engineering
GIBB offers engineering services covering all aspects of engineering internal and external electrical systems, including:
- Electrical reticulation (MV and LV) of buildings and building complexes; metering and sub-metering; earthing and lightning protection; power factor correction for electricity; safety and adherence to SANS standards, statutes and local authority by-laws
- Illumination (computer aided design of external and internal general and task lighting systems in line with necessary statutory, functional and aesthetic requirements)
- Electronic systems (including radio/TV reception and signal distribution; smoke detection and fire alarm, public address and intercom conference systems; CCTV and access control systems; intruder alarm; building management and lighting control systems; telephone and data communication network systems; pay parking systems; pedestrian counter systems).
- Generation plant and standby power generation
- Pumpstations
- UPS and “clean” electrical supplies
- Control of interference
- Elevator and escalator installations
- Energy efficiency
Mechanical engineering
Efficient and economically viable mechanical engineering solutions designed to client specifications and aligned to applicable local and international standards:
- Medical gas
- HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Systems)
- Assessments to ascertain the most energy-efficient, ergonomic and cost-effective solutions relating to all aspects of HVAC
- Fuel selection, boiler plant, chimney and heating systems and solar energy solutions
- Air conditioning systems (dual-duct, variable air volume, induction, fan coil units, low velocity systems and thermal storage)
- Ventilation (natural methods, fuel for head and fume and odour removal)
- Energy conservation (efficient use of energy, selection of plant and equipment and performance monitoring)
- Assessment of special environmental conditions (for factories, businesses, laboratories, schools, etc.)
- Building management systems (the monitoring and controlling of air conditioning and lighting systems, vertical transportation, fire protection, smoke detection and sprinklers and energy management)
- Maintenance management (on-site monitoring of contractors, providing preventative and corrective maintenance routines, providing budgets for reticulation work and design expertise during refurbishment, equipment break-down and energy saving routines)
- Fire protection
- Hose and reel hydrant installations
- Automatic sprinkler systems
- Deluge systems
- Automatic central and modular inert gas flooding systems
- Dry risers
- Foam systems
- Smoke control
- Fire detection, alarm and evacuation systems
- Fire safety standards assessment and adherence (aligned with applicable local and international safety protocols and standards; ensuring clients assets are protected with proper risk management and insurance-based principles)
- Reticulation
- Hot and cold water and LP and medical gas reticulation for various applications (computer rooms, laboratories, hospitals and theatres, industrial kitchens, offices, residential developments, shopping centres, storage facilitates, etc.)
- Wet services
- Assessment and design of economically viable plumbing and drainage systems designed for maximum energy- and environmental-efficiency and intelligent sustainability, including solar, steam, high- and low-temperature hot water, gas, air-heating, heat pumps, electronic storage and gas and electric radiant systems.
Energy management solutions
Technical proposals, life-cycle cost analyses, energy audits (energy conservation) and the development, implementation and management of technologically energy-efficient energy management systems, including:
- Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems
- Ice plant/storage
- Hot water generation
- Heat exchangers
- Building management systems
- Demand side load management
- Electrical distribution system losses
- Power factor correction
- Harmonic filtering
- Electrical tariff analysis
- Load control systems
- Lighting technology and control systems
- Alterations energy sources (solar, photovoltaic, hydro, wind, biogas/fuel)
Structural engineering
- Feasibility and location studies
- Design, co-ordination and supervision of construction (in accordance with applicable local and international standards) to a wide range of buildings (commercial, recreational, residential, institutional and industrial), always ensuring the most economically-viable, sustainable engineering solutions
- Detail planning, design and management of construction solutions (including foundations; retaining structures; in-situ and structural and non-structural precast reinforced concrete, pre- and post-tensioned pre-pressed concrete and mass concrete; structural steelwork, including tubular and hollow sections; masonry, brickwork and blockwork; composite construction and space-frames)
- Alterations, extensions and renovations to existing structures (to allow for maximum operation throughout construction period), using specialist knowledge, design and detail that incorporate shoring, underpinning, temporary works, falsework, demolition techniques, needling, propping and jacking
- Internal multi-disciplinary incorporation of required civil, geotechnical, mechanical, electrical, environmental and transportation engineering services
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