PROJECT

The Waldorf Astoria Resort is a 6 Star facility incorporating 96 keys within a total built area of 20,000m². Accommodation is provided entirely in detached villas from 1 to 5 bedrooms, each with their own swimming pool and either ocean or garden views. Food and beverage outlets include an all-day-dining restaurant, a speciality restaurant, a lobby lounge bar, a sunset bar, and a beach club, whilst the conference and wedding markets are catered for with a significant ball room and associated meeting rooms. Other facilities include a health spa, gym, and children’s club.

SPECIAL ENGINEERING FEATURES

• The hotel is serviced by an off-site standby diesel generation plant, sewerage treatment plant and reverse osmosis plant. The removal of these major items of infrastructure from the site has eliminated any potential issues relating to noise, odour and the disruptions caused by frequent maintenance access. Additionally, the valuable space made available by this approach has been utilised to further enhance the development through additional accommodation, more extensive landscape, etc.
• The hotel occupies an extensive site area in excess of 14 hectares. To accommodate this, a private underground high voltage electricity network has been provided incorporating two substations interconnected via a ring feeder to improve resiliency and optimise low voltage cable reticulation.
• Each villa is provided with a dedicated combined services plant room which accommodates the air handling unit, bathroom exhaust fan, hot water unit, switchboard, and equipment rack. This solution has eliminated all services equipment from within the villa, giving back valuable area to the occupiable space, whilst minimising noise intrusion and the need for hotel engineering staff to enter the villa for maintenance.
• Each villa is provided with a dedicated swimming pool. By taking advantage of the site topology Floth were able to provide fully accessible underground plant rooms for all pools, providing similar benefits to those described above.