Both allowances are built from the AECOM Africa Property and Construction Cost Guide, the reference lenders and quantity surveyors in the region use. The guide's Lusaka rate for average multi-unit apartments, US$1,475/m² inclusive of building services, is the closest published proxy for the standard proposed; lifted by ten per cent for the logistics premium of the North-Western Province it gives US$1,623/m². Furniture, specialist equipment, external works, fees at 8.5 per cent and a 15 per cent concept-stage contingency follow the same method on both sites. Nothing yet rests on a supplier quotation or a measured bill of quantities; a local quantity surveyor's baseline is the next step on each.

Combined, the two schemes come to US$47.0m before tax, or US$44.9m at a 10 per cent contingency. The hotel components alone are US$32.9m for 216 keys, US$152,000 per key.

Solwezi is the service town for the Kansanshi, Lumwana and Kalumbila mines and the administrative capital of North-Western Province. Its hotel demand is overwhelmingly business travel: contractors, mine staff, suppliers, officials and consultants on short stays, with a steady need for longer-stay accommodation that is managed rather than let. That market pays mid-market rates and values reliability, food, meeting space and a place to stay for a month.

The hotel is a 112 × 18 m rectangle on four levels: a ground floor of public rooms and back-of-house, and three identical floors of forty keys and four serviced apartments each. The 18 m depth is 8 + 2 + 8 m gross, with one central corridor, passenger and service lift cores stacked through the building and stair reservations at both ends. There is no basement, no lightwell and no occupied roof: the plan is compact, repetitive and economical to build and to run.

The public floor carries a restaurant and bar for about a hundred, a 192 m² divisible conference room for 150 with three meeting rooms, a gym, and the kitchen, laundry, staff welfare, plant and receiving along the rear. Enclosed area is 8,064 m², 58 m² per hotel key, the proportion a full-service business hotel needs to operate efficiently. Site survey, orientation, boundaries, ground conditions and utility capacities are to be established in the next stage.

The standard room is 3.75 × 8 m gross, about 26.5 m² net: a shower bathroom and wardrobe beside the corridor, a king or twin bed, a desk and an armchair at the window. It is the module used by branded mid-scale hotels across the region.

The twelve serviced apartments are split six one-bed at 60 m² and six two-bed at 84 m², each with a full kitchen, a utility zone with a stacked washer-dryer and its own bathrooms. They sit at the end of each room floor away from the lifts, let on monthly terms to mine and contractor staff, and are serviced by the hotel's housekeeping and laundry.

Typical studies assume a 1.8 × 2.0 m king bed, 0.95 × 2.0 m twins and a 0.9 × 0.9 m shower. Two standard modules per floor should be developed as accessible rooms; the final number depends on local requirements and has not yet been established.

The building is a simple rectangle four storeys high: warm light render, stone-toned stair and lift sections, blue-grey glazing and bronze-toned fins to the room windows. The ground floor is glazed along the restaurant, lobby and foyer and has high windows to the conference and meeting rooms; the rear carries delivery doors and louvres for the kitchen, laundry and plant. Room windows follow the 3.75 m module; the apartments at the left-hand end read as a wider-window bay.

Arrival is from an enclosed forecourt. Cars pass under the 12 × 6 m canopy beside the lobby doors and leave the way they came or through the far side, with a separate pedestrian approach and surface parking in the forecourt. Coaches and delivery vehicles use the rear. Gate positions, turning, emergency access and drainage depend on the site survey.

Storey heights are 4.0 m at ground and 3.2 m on the room floors, giving a roof slab at +13.6 m and a parapet at +14.6 m, with a 1.8 m screen around the roof plant. Vertical fins and shading are proposals; orientation-specific solar modelling will fix their final design once the site is known.

The working allowance is built from the AECOM Africa Property and Construction Cost Guide, the reference lenders and quantity surveyors in the region use. The guide's Lusaka rate for average multi-unit apartments, US$1,475/m² inclusive of building services, is the closest published proxy for the standard proposed; lifted by ten per cent for the Solwezi–Lumwana logistics premium it gives US$1,623/m² across the 8,064 m² enclosed area, or US$13.08m of building works.

Furniture at US$9,000 per room and US$20,000 per apartment, specialist kitchen, laundry, audio-visual, gym and appliance equipment, external works including the canopy and forecourt, fees at 8.5 per cent and a 15 per cent concept-stage contingency bring the total to US$20.91m before tax: US$174,000 per hotel key with the apartments and conference carried as overhead, or US$158,000 per lettable unit across all 132.

Separated, the hotel is US$18.35m, or US$153,000 per key all-in and US$113,000 per key on the guide's building-plus-FF&E basis. That sits between the Johannesburg mid-scale benchmark and the last financed branded hotel built in Lusaka, which is where a Solwezi business hotel should be. The twelve serviced apartments account for US$2.56m, about US$213,000 each.

Manyama is the township serving Barrick's Lumwana mine, some 65 km west of Solwezi on the road to Kalumbila. Its visitors are contractors, suppliers, mine staff on rotation, consultants and officials, most of them on company accounts, many of them for weeks at a time. They need clean, reliable rooms, good food, somewhere to hold a meeting and somewhere to swim after a shift. A well-run business hotel with serviced apartments and a pool is what that market will pay for.

The hotel is a 100 × 18 m rectangle on four levels: a ground floor of public rooms and back-of-house, and three identical floors of thirty-two keys and four serviced apartments each. The 18 m depth is 8 + 2 + 8 m gross, with one central corridor, passenger and service lift cores stacked through the building and stair reservations at both ends. There is no basement, no lightwell and no occupied roof. The public floor carries a restaurant and bar for about eighty, a 160 m² divisible conference room for 120 with three meeting rooms, a gym, and the kitchen, laundry, staff welfare, plant and receiving along the service side; enclosed area is 7,200 m².

The campus places the hotel lengthwise on the west side of a private spine road with arrival facing east into an internal forecourt; parking for about eighty cars to the east; a two-storey staff block of forty twin rooms for up to eighty residents behind the parking; and a 25 × 10 m lap pool with a separate 8 × 6 m leisure pool behind the hotel. The southern half of the plot stays in reserve for later phases.

Arrival is toward the south end of the arrival facade, under the 12 × 6 m canopy, into a single-height lobby with reception, luggage and lounge seating, with the passenger lifts immediately beside it. The restaurant and bar, about eighty seats, open off the lobby and face the forecourt; the kitchen sits directly behind, with its delivery door on the western service route, cold and dry stores, preparation, cook line and dishwash.

The conference end is to the north, nearest the gate: a 56 m² pre-function foyer, a 160 m² room that divides into two and seats about 120 theatre-style or 70 classroom, and three 40 m² meeting rooms for ten. Mine and contractor meetings, inductions and supplier events are the demand; a separate entrance from the forecourt keeps a day event out of the hotel lobby. Public WCs and the gym sit behind it on the service band.

The service band also carries staff welfare and security, the plant room, the laundry and linen store, which also serves the staff block, general receiving and waste, and the service lift and stores that stack with the housekeeping core above. The single corridor is shared by guests and some service movements; clean and dirty laundry, catering and restaurant returns need separated doors and timed operation in the detailed plan.

The building is a simple rectangle four storeys high: warm light render, stone-toned stair and lift sections, blue-grey glazing and bronze-toned fins to the room windows. The arrival facade is glazed along the foyer, restaurant and lobby and has high windows to the conference and meeting rooms; the west facade carries delivery doors and louvres for the kitchen, laundry and plant. Bedrooms face east and west, so the fins matter on both sides; orientation-specific solar modelling will fix their design.

Storey heights are 4.0 m at ground and 3.2 m on the room floors, giving a roof slab at +13.6 m and a parapet at +14.6 m, with a 1.8 m screen around the roof plant. The staff block is two storeys at nominal 3.2 m, with a pitched sheet roof suited to its construction.

The working allowance uses the same basis as the Solwezi Hotel: the AECOM Lusaka rate for average multi-unit apartments, US$1,475/m² inclusive of building services, as the proxy for the standard proposed, lifted by ten per cent for the Lumwana logistics premium to US$1,623/m². The hotel's 7,200 m² comes to US$11.68m of building works. The same rate is applied to the 1,872 m² staff block, which is conservative for a dormitory standard, and the pools with their changing and plant buildings carry an allowance of US$0.85m.

The campus is what separates Manyama from Solwezi. Site infrastructure across the 4 ha, a spine road and gate, parking and forecourt paving, a boundary enclosure of about a kilometre, boreholes and water treatment, a packaged sewage plant, the electrical connection with standby generation, drainage, lighting and landscaping, carries a US$3.0m allowance. Furniture, equipment, fees at 8.5 per cent and a 15 per cent concept-stage contingency bring the total to US$26.06m before tax.

Separated, the hotel is US$14.54m, or US$151,000 per key all-in and US$123,000 per key on the guide's building-plus-FF&E basis, in line with the Solwezi Hotel and the realised Lusaka benchmark. The serviced apartments are US$2.56m, the staff block US$4.16m (US$52,000 per bed), the pools US$1.06m and the site infrastructure US$3.74m with its fees and contingency. Loaded with the whole campus, the figure is US$271,000 per hotel key, which is the number a lender will test against the room rate and the staff-housing saving.