Off-site construction reduces programme time
ProCure21 partner, Kier Eastern, working with off-site specialist Yorkon, has reduced the programme for a major new hospital building at Colchester General Hospital by around six months. Kier was Principal Supply Chain Partner appointed by Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust under the ProCure21 framework to provide the new facility as part of a £20m contract – the biggest development in the hospital’s recent history. The building was manufactured and fitted out off site and installed by Yorkon in a £10m sub-contract, reducing time on site to just 10 months. Designed by Tangram Architects, the scheme increased the Trust’s capacity in time for the peak winter period. It accommodates a new children’s department on the ground floor and an elective care centre and surgical ward on the upper floor, with plant rooms above. In order to reduce the construction programme for the new building to the benefit of patient care, Kier and the Trust took the decision to use an off-site solution. The approach also allowed an existing ward building on the site to remain
in use until just days before the second phase of modules arrived on site.
The new purpose-designed facilities include 68 inpatient beds, consultation and treatment rooms, nurses’ stations, two isolation beds, administrative offices, a school room, children’s dining room, utility room, stores, toilets and ancillary rooms. Nick Chatten, Director of Corporate Development at Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust, said, “The finished building is very impressive. It provides a good patient environment for both children in the children’s department and adults in the elective care centre and the new surgical ward.”
148 steel-framed modules up to 14m long and 3.3m wide, and each weighing up to 12 tonnes, were delivered and installed in just 17 days. The units were partially fitted out off site, including internal partitioning and first fix M&E services. The building, which has achieved a BREEAM ‘very good’ rating (targeted), has created an attractive and welcoming environment for staff and patients, particularly given its prominent location
next to the hospital’s main entrance. It has deeply articulated façades finished in a palette of materials, including white render, vertical bands of rainscreen cladding and curtain walling.
The new Yorkon pre-installed concrete floor has been used throughout – the first time this award-winning modular technology has been used for a complete building. It is an innovative off-site solution ideal for high traffic areas and to accommodate sensitive hospital equipment.
The children’s department is arranged around two large central courtyards that provide a protected play area and a sensory garden. Internally it features multi- coloured and patterned flooring, walls in bright colours, murals and a distinctive design for the reception and nurses’ station, which as well as creating a cheerful interior, assists in way finding. Email:
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