Tuesday 4 February 2014

Namibia Wildlife Resorts’ modernisation program

Namibia Wildlife Resorts’ (NWR’s) ongoing drive towards market competitiveness continues, with the state-owned company this week announcing a number of projects scheduled for completion this year.
In a progress report issued this week, the company said it plans to see the completion of renovations currently underway at its Hobas Camp near the Fish River Canyon before the end of February.
The project forms part of the company’s three-year strategic plan approved last year, which aims to improve customer service, internal processes and systems, financial performance and public interest in the brand.
The Hobas project includes construction of a new restaurant, complete with sundowner bar and a capacity for 100 patrons.
It also includes the upgrading of the site’s existing camping facilities, development of five new group sites, and upgrades to the area’s swimming pool and surrounding landscape.
“The first phase of the redevelopment has started with revamping and commissioning of existing sewage trickling plant and installation of a new generator,” the company states in its latest progress report.
“Renovation works as performed by (the) internal project team has progressed very well and is being completed by mid-February 2014,” the report reads.
These works include the revamping of the site’s ablution block, its office block, as well as to the kiosk and staff housing quarters.
The company further gave an update on work currently under way at its Hardap Recreational Resort near Mariental. “Construction works started with the demolition of unwanted infrastructure in the first week of January 2014,” the company states in a separate progress report.
The Hardap Resort has been earmarked for major renovations, with the company calling for a modernised look and feel to its tourism facilities, office blocks and conference hall.
“The Hardap Resort renovation project is one of the projects which has been carefully planned to have started with a technical structural survey to determine which of the buildings are still sound and which are to be replaced or demolished. The technical infrastructure reports indicate that the bricks and concrete works are to a large extent still intact,” the company’s report on Hardap reads.
That project, it said, is scheduled to be commissioned towards the end of 2014.

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