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heavy penalties for late delivery. “Using modular components also keeps down the numbers of
people on site, which means it is safer.” He says the project was helped by the close working relation-
ship between builder and client. “The PFI procurement method pushes you down the route of
collaboration with the trust and user groups,” Watkins adds. “We all delivered the trust’s vision as part of a single team,
which we encouraged by us all being located in one place on site so that we worked together rather than in silos.” While construction took place the old Pembury hospital
remained in use on the other half of the site, so dust had to be carefully controlled so that it did not enter wards. Contractors’ staff had to use different site entrances from those of patients and medical staff, and the building site was effectively isolated
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from the working part of the hospital. Patients who had been in the original Pembury Hospital
moved to the new building in January and those from the Kent and Sussex site will move there during this autumn. Laing O’Rourke will demolish the old Pembury Hospital and
on that half of the site will build car parks, an emergency services helipad and landscaped open space. The trust now has a 6,000 sq m new acute hospital, with 512
single bedrooms, all carefully designed to increase patient safety and reduce the opportunities for infection. Each bedroom has an ensuite bathroom with light sensors to
reduce energy use and level-entry showers, and has its walls angled to give views over the surrounding countryside through unusually large windows of 2.6 m by 1.1 m, something thought to improve patients’ recovery rates by providing a tranquil set-
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