healthcare build & design special report
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BUILDING PROJECTS
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The advanced off-site manufacturing system, Design for Manufacture and Assembly, was used to build the Cheesegrater in London and is now helping deliver the next generation of UK hospitals faster, safer, and to higher levels of design quality than ever before. Stephen Cousins reports
Assembly (DfMA), which has been used to build a range of high profile projects, such as the £340 million Leadenhall Building in the City of London, also known as the “Cheesegrater”, Crossrail’s Custom House overground rail station, and projects for Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway. Less well known are the pioneering healthcare projects currently being delivered using DfMA, much faster, safer, and
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ain contractor Laing O’Rourke has pumped over £100 million into its proprietary off-site fabrica- tion technology Design for Manufacture and
to a higher level of quality, than traditional construction methods. These include the £160 million Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital, designed by architects Rogers, Stirk, Harbour + Partners, where over 50 per cent of the structure is being delivered using DfMA. And Liverpool’s £237 million Alder Hey in the Park children’s hospital, designed by BDP, which when handed over in June, is set to become the fastest hospital ever built in the UK, constructed in just two years. DfMA was launched in 2009 and initially focused on pre-fabricating precast concrete components, such as columns,
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