RaubexBuilding Cape

Services

How we take on work.

Most projects fit one of five delivery models. Pick the one that matches your risk appetite and how far along your design is, or describe the problem and we will recommend one.

Delivery models

01

Traditional contracting

JBCC · NEC · bespoke

Tendered on your professional team's documentation, priced competitively, delivered to the programme.

  • Competitive or negotiated tenders on JBCC, NEC and bespoke contracts
  • Bills of quantities priced line by line, no lump-sum padding
  • Full-time site management from establishment to close-out
  • Monthly valuations and cost reports you can reconcile
02

Design & build

One contract, one accountable party. We appoint and manage the professional team and carry design responsibility.

  • Concept to completion under a single contract
  • Cost certainty earlier, the price and the design develop together
  • Value engineering built into the design stages, not bolted on
  • Well suited to industrial, retail and repeat-format buildings
03

Turnkey & development partnerships

For developers who want a contractor at the table from land to launch.

  • Feasibility input: build cost, programme and phasing before you commit
  • Phased delivery matched to sales and funding milestones
  • Show-house and marketing-suite delivery ahead of the main works
  • A single handover, site, services and units, ready to occupy
04

Construction management

Our site team runs the works; you hold the trade contracts. Full cost transparency, full programme control.

  • Open-book procurement of trade packages
  • Programme, safety and quality management as a professional service
  • Suits fast-track projects that start before the design is complete
  • Change is managed on the day, not argued about at final account
05

Refurbishment & fit-out

Live buildings, tight sequencing, and neighbours who are still trading.

  • Phased works around occupied tenants and operating businesses
  • Structural alterations, extensions and facade renewals
  • Tenant installations and commercial interiors
  • Heritage-sensitive work in the Cape's older building stock

Pre-construction

Before we price it, we plan it.

The cheapest time to fix a building is before it exists. Bring us in at concept or design development and the tender price becomes a number you can bank on, not a starting point for variations.

  • 01

    Buildability and value-engineering reviews at each design stage

  • 02

    Cost planning that tightens as the design does, no surprises at tender

  • 03

    Programme development, phasing and sequencing strategies

  • 04

    Early procurement of long-lead items and specialist subcontractors

  • 05

    Site logistics, access, hoarding and neighbour-management plans

  • 06

    Health and safety planning in line with the Construction Regulations

Sectors

Six sectors, each with its own way of going wrong — and our way of not letting it.

Commercial & retail

Retail and commercial work is judged on one thing: did the tenants open on the date they were promised? We plan the programme backwards from trading day and manage tenant installations as part of the works, not as an afterthought.

  • Office buildings and business parks
  • Shopping and convenience centres
  • Showrooms and dealerships
  • Mixed-use precincts

Residential & mixed-use

Residential development runs on cash flow. We phase construction to match sales and funding milestones, deliver show units early, and keep the finishing trades tightly sequenced so handovers land in batches you can bond and transfer.

  • Secure estates and lifestyle developments
  • Apartment blocks and sectional-title schemes
  • Student accommodation
  • Affordable and gap housing
  • Retirement living

Industrial & logistics

Big-box and light-industrial work is about earthworks, slabs and steel arriving in the right order. We front-load procurement of structural steel and roofing, and pour floors to the flatness tolerances racking suppliers actually specify.

  • Warehousing and distribution centres
  • Light-industrial units and business parks
  • Cold storage and food processing
  • Agri-processing and packhouses

Education & healthcare

Institutional projects are usually live environments: pupils in the next block, patients across the corridor. We plan segregation, dust and noise control, and after-hours work into the method statement from day one.

  • Schools and campus buildings
  • Student residences
  • Clinics, day hospitals and medical suites
  • Laboratories and research facilities

Hospitality & leisure

In hospitality the finish is what the guest pays for. We bring finishing-trade supervision and sample approvals forward, and protect completed areas so the snag list at handover is short.

  • Hotels and boutique lodging
  • Wine-estate cellars, tasting rooms and restaurants
  • Sports and leisure facilities
  • Conference and event venues

Refurbishment & fit-out

Working in an occupied building means the tenants, the landlord and the neighbours all have a stake in how we behave. Phasing, hoarding, access and clean-up are part of the price, not extras.

  • Building upgrades and extensions
  • Tenant installations and commercial interiors
  • Heritage-sensitive refurbishment
  • Façade and building-envelope renewals
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Not sure which model fits?

Send us the drawings you have — or just the site and the idea. We will tell you which route gets you the most certainty for the least risk, and what we would do first.

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