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complicated job,” Duane Passman explained. “Crown House is the building services contractor, while the overall ‘3Ts’ project is being expertly managed by our project manager and cost adviser, Turner & Townsend, working with the internal Trust team.”
Challenges on a ‘live’ site I asked about the biggest challenges of undertaking the project on a ‘live’ site. He said: It’s principally the obvious one – keeping the hospital operational while we undertake such a major redevelopment.” Access to busy hospital sites during major construction projects can be challenging, and I asked Duane Passman about this. He said: “We will have only one entrance for site traffic, off Eastern Road, entailing a good deal of planning. Our construction environmental management plan, which explains how construction traffic will be managed and mitigated, is still being finalised with Laing O’Rourke and Brighton and Hove City Council, with whose planning and transport departments we have developed excellent working relationships. I have found them really engaged, prepared to listen and, once the scheme go-ahead was given, incredibly helpful.”
Controversy over the Barry I wondered about the degree of controversy about the demolition of the Barry Building. Duane Passman said: “There has been some opposition; there are loads of local conservation societies, and there were about 20 objections to the planning application, but for a scheme this size that is not many. In the main, everyone has been willing to listen, to have a proper dialogue, and to treat each other with respect.”
Overall, I think the finished buildings, which have been beautifully designed by BDP, will be first class. I know BDP was chosen for the practice’s understanding of the site, and for its extremely successful design of the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital. The architects came up with some interesting design concepts, but were willing to listen and have that dialogue. During the design process we changed the building’s form, shape, and elevation 30 or more times to get to final plans which met both clinical and local planning requirements. The buildings will mainly be clad with concrete panels, with much of the panel structure pre-fabricated by Laing O’Rourke off site and transported here on large lorries.
Traffic flow analysis
“We will have six tower cranes on site, but have conducted a really big analysis which showed, monthly, what type of construction traffic there would be, so we
Hospital’s interesting history
The Royal Sussex County Hospital has a long and interesting history. The idea of establishing a hospital in the Sussex seaside town was first discussed in 1813, when an advertisement appeared in the Brighton Herald and Courier giving details of a public meeting, with the Earl of Chichester as the Chair. The hospital was subsequently founded as the Sussex County Hospital and the General Sea-Bathing Infirmary – with the prominent Barry Building, designed by the architect who also designed the Houses of Parliament – built between 1826 and 1828. The total cost, including the boundary walls, a new road to the sea, and a well, was reported to be around £14,000. The Barry Building was extended to the west in 1839 by William Hallett, the east in 1841 by Herbert Williams, and further in 1852-1853, again by Herbert Williams. The foundation
stone was laid on 16 March 1826 by the Earl of Egremont, and the hospital opened on 11 June 1828 as the Sussex County Hospital. The Victoria Wing was added in 1839, and the Adelaide Wing in 1841, with the hospital being renamed the Royal Sussex County Hospital in around 1911.
The Jubilee Wing was added in 1887, the Sussex Eye Hospital in 1935, and the Millennium Building in 2000, while in 2005 the Audrey Emerton Building was opened by Baroness Emerton to accommodate clinical medical students of Brighton and Sussex Medical School. The Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital opened in June 2007. The hospital is well-known as having in 1984 received the injured from the bombing of Brighton’s Grand Hotel, where members of the Government were staying during that year’s Conservative Party annual conference.
Clinical adjacencies
A computer-generated image of the view from the new helipad, on the top of the Thomas Kemp Tower.
Looking forward to the scheme’s completion, Duane Passman said: “One of the biggest benefits will be much improved clinical adjacencies. For example, currently, if you have had a stroke, and are brought into the emergency department, you will be stabilised there. Stroke patients should, however, generally be moved to a stroke ward within an hour. To undertake the journey from the ED to the stroke wards in the Barry Building currently is a considerable journey. With the existing hospital layout, the journey can take 15-20 minutes. In winter it is shocking, because you have to walk across the exposed service road, and if it’s wet the rain may be coming in sideways.
A CGI image of one of the new neurosurgery theatres.
could agree the most appropriate routes. Equally, we will be able to tell local residents well in advance what is going on. Deliveries will have to be carefully scheduled – for instance none will be able to arrive either very early in the morning or late at night.”
A transformational difference “In the new hospital, a stroke patient will literally come into ED, the porter will turn left with them into the new building, put them in a lift, and take them to the stroke ward on Level 10. The new layout, adjacencies, and buildings, will make a transformational difference to the way services are provided. We will also be up to 65 per cent single beds, with 361 beds in all; a net increase of about 100. The helideck, on the top of the Thomas Kemp Tower, will be completed in 2018, and emergency patients will then be able to be taken straight down via a lift into the relevant area for treatment. The scheme as a whole is an excellent one. I think the new buildings will make such a difference, offering an improved experience for thousands of patients and staff every year.”
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