Services to fit your needs
Our company offers a variety of services to meet your project’s needs, taking you from collaboration meetings to ribbon-cutting and beyond.
Preconstruction
During the Preconstruction stage, the objective of the allocated “team” is to actively manage the budget development process. Providing the owner and its consultants with timely input on expenditures and procedures, and monitor the availability of materials and compatibility of costs. This process involves continuous monitoring and interaction.
ZS Africa takes an active role in monitoring, revising, and updating the schedule for contractual preparations.
To accomplish this, a system of status reporting is customized to reflect the mutual needs concerning project cost and schedule accountability.
Schematic phase
Assist in team allocation
Analyse building program; define project workscope and milestones
Analyse and coordinate consulting studies and reports
Inspect constructability reviews
Site evaluation
Review the property line documentation and cross check with the physical location
Review Soil Reports and identify hidden costs
Verify water, sewage, electrical and telephone easements
Identify flooding or storm drain concerns
Verify zoning and environmental regulations
Identify out of property infrastructure costs.
Cost Control / Estimations
Formulate value analysis reports for costs of alternate building systems and materials
Perform constructability reviews and recommend cost effective alternatives
Prepare feasibility budget
Determine bonding requirements
Analyze life cycle costs
Prepare cost checks
Prepare initial cash flow
Design development phase
Coordinate with A&E/Client Team and Monitor Documents for Compliance
Recommend alternate cost saving construction methods and materials with BIM Modeling
Resolve spatial conflicts associated with the added level of detail in the shop/fabrication models.
Provide very detailed drawings and renders that coincide with coordinated information.
Provide a visualization tool for field staff to help understand the design and installation of systems.
Provide a tool to assist in scheduling and installation sequencing.
Reduce Requests for Information and associated administrative time.
Time Management / Scheduling
Formulate initial milestone schedule
Determine permitting, agency review & approval requirements
Prepare sequencing schedule
Develop master project schedule
Construction document phase
Organize field staff
Design management reporting system, document control and submittal Schedule
Continue document review and coordination
Prepare quality control plan in coordination with architect and owner
Construction
We firmly believe in teamwork, working together as one is key to create great progress. Developing trust with a team where each member looks for ways to help one another, promotes the best kind of collaboration, and each member benefits.
Our construction staffing consists of an experienced team, which is briefed and integrated into the projects during the design and prior to the construction process. Construction is launched virtually through sketches and renders. The team displays models using softwares like REVIT, which we then import into Navisworks to kick off the coordination process. We engage with the design team at the owner’s earliest invitation.
We map out every conceivable region of significance to the site, as we design the construction model in-house. That means the site itself, adjacent properties, buildings, streets, sidewalks, trees, and utilities. Any or all of these environmental conditions could obstruct access to the construction site or limit construction operations.
Navisworks allows us to work with multiple model formulations and different aspects of the design so that mechanical, electrical, plumbing, and other trades do not clash with structural and architectural elements. If we detect materials overlapping in the digital environment, we coordinate well ahead of construction and re-adjust. Without this proactive, collaborative workflow, we could discover an obstacle in the field that would then take extra time and money to troubleshoot. VDC technologies save us from these potential setbacks.
The model becomes the primary basis and means of communicating ideas and logistics to everyone involved, from ownership, to design team, to agencies, to subcontractors. Frequent interaction with the model and weekly updates keep the process smooth and streamlined.
Cost control
Project Managers are responsible for keeping track of the budget. They oversee the budget and report to the client. This mechanism is set to monitor and control costs on a monthly or weekly basis. All reviews are double-checked by our in-house finance department, from which it makes and formalizes all payments to subcontractors.
Project safety
Every project has an allocated team of dedicated and trained safety officers who are knowledgeable in the parts of construction that they will be overseeing. Job site orientations, activity hazard analysis studies, safety audits, compliance, training, and safety management are all done by ZS Africa Solutions personnel. Our safety inspection teams brief every worker on the job. In case of safety violations, these officers can halt work at any moment, issue penalties, and remove employees from the project as needed.
Corporate Safety
Through collaboration with safety experts, insurance agents, and our own experience, ZS Africa Solutions Construction Company has built a comprehensive safety program.
This program was created to safeguard all of our employees, subcontracted laborers, inspectors, clients, project visitors, and the surrounding community.
We are proud of our excellent safety record and preferential insurance rates as a result of our continued safety performance.
Our safety precautions includes the following:
Project specific site safety plans
Supervisor and employee training course
Construction equipment and operator training
Site specific and company new hire orientation
Daily site safety meetings
Site safety surveys and audits
Equipment / tool inspections
Rewards for outstanding safety performance
Mandatory subcontractor participation in safety course
Disciplinary action policies
Design Management
Internal design management department. The design process is managed and coordinated by this department, which is made up of architects, interior designers and engineers.
The department's professional team is responsible for providing leadership and oversight to ensure that all design submittals are delivered on time and that all code and quality standards are satisfied.
Their project function also includes design quality control, disciplinary cross-checks, and value engineering.
Building information modeling
The following are some of the important deliverables from our BIM strategy:
Enhanced decision-making:
Reduce poor design decisions by using digital models and electronic design visualizations during design and construction.
Enhanced construction documentation:
Reduce the number of unknowns in contract papers by avoiding or minimizing the need to request for information processes to "fill in the gaps.", Use BIM to re-establish accuracy and precision as well as to increase architects', engineers', and owners' construction cognition and assembly understanding.
Enhanced preconstruction estimating:
By utilizing schematic design take-offs generated through the BIM process, one reduces the amount of guesswork and inefficiencies in preconstruction estimation. Leveraging the use of multiple pricing models by the contractor and reuse as-built digital models in new markets.
Enhanced procurement and scheduling:
Time modeling (also known as 4D modeling) and cost modeling techniques are being used to reform procurement and project scheduling, reducing job-site downtime and enhancing sub-trade coordination, overlaps, and phasing.
Enhanced cost-efficiency:
Adopting a pre-fit workflow from the designer to the subcontractor and demanding greater installation precision can reduce the economic consequences of coordination errors, wrong production, and inappropriate installation. It reduces the need for overtime labor and premium costs to make up for lost time due to these avoidable mistakes. Furthermore, reduces spending in general conditions, insurance, and carrying costs by optimizing project schedules that will result in faster construction.
Sustainability
ZS Africa Solutions is a recognized sustainable contractor and leader in resource efficiency. Over the years we have considerable expertise in all areas of planning, construction, and methods of operating.
We offer over a decade of LEED project design, construction, and consulting. We are committed to create positive improvements in the built environment, operational practices, and the implementation of sustainability principles. This has enabled us to create awareness within the communities and organizations in which we serve.
Our work ethic leans towards a creative, hands-on approach that encourages active participation and promotes ownership among all members of the team. We believe that the greatest way to achieve goals is to collaborate with the teams we serve, and that the expression of information and concepts is the best way to do so. Our unwavering approach results in more efficient data collecting, group and individual collaboration, and, ultimately, comprehensive projects that exceed the goals and expectations of the owners.