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 The Aga
Khan Hospital And Medical College Karachi, Pakistan
This project is a good example of the firm's ability
to successfully compete with other large international firms
of project managers and construction cost consultants /
quantity surveyors. The hospital in Karachi comprised a
721 bed teaching hospital, medical college, filter clinic
and male hostel. The Client is the Aga Khan Hospital & Medical
College Foundation and the project was built by Trollope
Colls Cementation Overseas Limited of the United Kingdom.
When construction first commenced in late 1980, the Foundation
had appointed an American firm of construction managers
to look after its interests in the successful completion
of the project. During the early stages of construction,
the Foundation decided that it would be appropriate to change
the construction managers to a firm of international construction
cost consultants / quantity surveyors who also had project
/ construction management experience.
After extensive negotiations and visits by the Foundation's
representatives to our offices in London, Cyprus, Bahrain
and Riyadh to meet some of our major Clients and obtain
references on our ability to perform a first class service,
D.G. Jones & Partners were commissioned in May 1982 for
this prestigious project.
Our management team in Karachi comprised a project manager,
assistant project manager, chief quantity surveyor and technical
coordinator with support staff numbering 25 including engineers,
architects, quantity surveyors and accountants. Our responsibilities
included the co-ordination and monitoring of the planning
and progress of the design, the work of the main contractor,
subcontractors and suppliers and the activities of the American
Architectural and Engineering Consultants exercising quality
control. We also carried out the usual construction cost
consultancy / quantity surveying role as well as being involved
with the activities of the Foundation and the hospital equipment
consultant/suppliers.
The project was handed over to the Foundation in June 1985.
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