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company, Taunton Fabrications. A small section has already been fabricated and erected on the outside of a small mock-up ward room built by BAM. “The mock-up has been a really good exercise,” says Holt.
“We’ve ironed out design details and the trust can also see what they are getting; the trust can buy it into early doors. If you can afford it, I would highly recommend it.” For BAM, the challenge lies not so much in the actual con-
Christopher Tipping’s stainless steel starling installation
Right: Artist Impression of the Jubilee Building: the floating roof
struction that has been specified by BDP in the design but the interface with the end-users during the programme of works. “The consequence of one service being diverted here
doesn’t bear thinking about,” reflects BAM’s project manager Nigel Harris. “The potential is huge like something happening to a maternity unit; what if they lost gas on a Sunday after- noon or the WiFi goes down? The ramifications for the trust are huge.” The contract was let through an existing construction
framework. BAM had first expressed an interest in the con- tract back in 2009. There was some opposition during the planning process,
while funding and other issues would delay the procurement. Eventually, after a two-stage tender process, funding was con- firmed in late 2011 and BAM was finally confirmed as winner of the job in January 2012. Work finally started on site on March 5, 2012. One of
BAM’s earliest tasks was to install new heating and hot water in old parts of the hospital where utilities had to be discon- nected. Another was to re-route around 3,500 telephone and data lines that had to be disconnected. These services had to be disconnected then reconnected without interrupting the vital services they provide. The site itself for the Jubilee Building is a former car park,
but an existing link also had to be demolished – and swathes of asbestos removed – to make way for the new concourse building. To compensate for the loss of this link BAM had to erect a 90-metre long temporary link building at a cost of £80,000. Although some smaller projects such as an accident and
emergency extension and a blown fibre hub room – the latter built by Kier – had been undertaken at the hospital in recent years, this was by some way the largest tranche of work at the site for some time. Harris adds: “The most complicated part here is tiptoeing
around the people in the hospital. That’s been the difficult part; what we’re doing is really intrusive. People have said that we have been really quiet and that means we’ve achieved what we meant to do.” In construction terms, the proximity could not be closer.
The new concourse building is being built just 400mm away from the hospital’s existing single storey kitchen building, which leaves precious little space for the construction team to install cladding.
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