Healthcare Sector
Lymington Hospital
Murphy Phillips Associates, Rydon Construction Ltd
The new Community Hospital is a PFI project being constructed on a sensitive site in Lymington, adjacent to a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and adjoining the Lymington River. The hospital consists of two and three storey high buildings providing approximately 12,000sq.m floor area, incorporating DTC, EAU and MIU areas, two operating theatres, two endoscopy suites, imaging suites and an audiology suite. The hospital has 104 bed spaces with a large proportion being single rooms with en-suite facilities, spread over rehabilitation, surgical, medical and birthing centre wards.
The specialist requirements of a healthcare building demand a different approach to the provision of means of escape from the guidance given in Approved Document B1. The NHS Estates HTM Codes were used to design a strategy of progressive escape of bedridden occupants or those with restricted mobility. A fire engineered solution was incorporated into the open plan atrium whilst meeting the fundamental requirement of the safety of the building’s occupants.
The levels of thermal insulation used in the construction of the building’s fabric and efficient plant, heating and lighting systems ensure an effective use of fuel and power helping to reduce the emissions of CO2 and other gases that effect global warming.
St Michael’s Hospital, Lichfield, Staffordshire
Ansell & Baily Chartered Architects
St Michael’s Hospital, Lichfield with its modern design concept and broad based services forms a much needed state of the art medical facility for the region. The 18 month build program was tight, but on-site quality in both management and build, allowed the high quality cast in-situ concrete structure to rapidly make its mark on the community.
Construction space was restrained, hampered further by the sloping site requiring extensive retaining walls to form lower accommodation levels. Intensive support by RBC surveyors to the well organised site team ensured that process flowed to a very pleasing outcome, a building to be proud of.
Alsgate and Kew Medical Centres
Richard Boothroyd Associates, HDP Design Partnership, Oakapple Construction
First in a series of medical centre, these two units have been designed to achieved the requirement of Part L2006 + 10% to ensure the client has a compliant building for the future. To ensure that a suitable standard of fire safety has been achieve an amalgam of guidance has been blended to accommodate the needs of the occupants of these buildings.
Springfield University Hospital
Integrated Health Projects, Sir Robert McAlpine
Set within the vibrant Tooting community, Springfield University Hospital is part of one of the largest mental healthcare institutions in the UK. It is also one of the few remaining underdeveloped 19th century county asylum estates still in use. While the property is large (33 ha.) and provides a beautiful setting, the Hospital’s mental health facilities are today totally inadequate for mental health treatment.
The South West London and St. George’s Mental Health NHS Trust (the Trust), the Hospital’s owners and operators, is committed to providing the best possible environment for its service users and enhancing quality of life in South West London.
The building is designed for mixed purpose groups, which are mainly based in office and institutional accommodation on two levels. There is also a lower ground floor level housing a car park, plant and future retail/office space.
The upper ground floor level is subdivided into two main compartments, that of the PICU (Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit) with adjacent 136 Admissions Suite and the offices and outpatient area on the other side of the “Hospital Street” - corridor.
The first floor houses the AAU (Adult Acute Unit) with some ancillary Facilities Management accommodation. This is the first phase of four, with future phases mirroring the footprint of phase 1. RBC are working closely with the architect MAAP, and the fire safety officer, using relevant guidance from the hospital guide HTM 81, and the building regulations, to agree an appropriate and realistic fire strategy suited to the building’s use.
Leicestershire, North Nottinghamshire, South Derbyshire
7 Sandwell ‘LIFT’ projects
We’ve been working with Laing O’Rourke on a PFI commission for the past 2 years. We’re currently coming to the end of the first tranche and they consist of brand new healthcare centres. Within each of the areas mentioned above there are approximately 7 new centres.
- CAMHS mental unit
- Medical & Health Centre, Hove
- Derby Royal Infirmary Hospital
- Queen Mary's University Hospital
- Child & Adolescent Mental Health Unit, Newham