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Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr, by Nightingale Associates, uses pre-fabricated modular wiring systems.

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lanned for completion in Autumn 2011, Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr is the new £170 million hospital development in Caerphilly, South Wales. When completed it will have 269 beds and, with Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust's other new hospital at Ebbw Vale, will be the first in the

UK to have 100 % single room accommodation for patients. The hospital will give patients access to an increased range of services in a modern health care environment. Under the aims of the Designed for Life framework, which was

introduced in July 2006 by the Welsh Assembly Government, the building will be designed to provide the Trust with value for money, greater certainty over cost and programme, and to allow for continuous improvement through collaborative working. “The Ysbyty Ystrad Hospital will be a very significant project,

being the first fully single bedroom hospital in Wales, and the first to be built under the Designed for Life framework. The Trust required the design of the single bedrooms to enable the hospital to offer a very high level of care that will help reduce infections and ensure privacy and dignity for patients.” advises Kieren Morgan, Health Development Director, Nightingale Associates. The hospital will be arranged over four floors and will contain a

large number of facilities, including: an Integrated Care Centre, Diagnostic and Treatment Centre, Integrated Therapies, including Palliative Care, Local Emergency Care and Short Stay beds, Maternity Facilities, Mental Health Services and Non clinical support.

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The 75,000m2 site is also situated in a floodplain, so design

proposals have been developed to ensure the hospital remains in operation during any extreme flood event. The main hospital concourse will be located one floor above the flood plain with parking arranged on the lower ground level. Modernity is very much the theme with this new development,

with a number of modern construction methods being put into practice, including the use of modular sub-circuit distribution systems. Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust opted for the modular wiring route because of its labour saving benefits, which will result in a

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