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HEALTHCARE & HOSPITALITY


TEMPORARY STRUCTURE IS A LIFE-SAVER FOR URGENT WARD EXPANSION


Robert Snook, Director and General Manager at Portakabin, looks at how a highly complex ward and theatre facility was constructed in less than four months to help meet the increasing demand for orthopaedic services.


University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust had an urgent requirement for a highly complex, 4,200sqm interim ward and theatre building to facilitate the transfer of orthopaedic services to another hospital.


The purpose-designed scheme would occupy a constrained site immediately adjacent to the main building at Royal Stoke University Hospital and would be in use for the next five years.


A highly innovative modular solution from Portakabin was developed to fast-track construction and to deliver a


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high quality, fully-fitted building in less than four months. The £13.5 million project was the largest contract in the 52-year history of the Portakabin Group’s Hire Division and was one of its most challenging schemes in terms of programme and site constraints.


The building’s structure comprises 124 steel-framed modules, each weighing up to nine tonnes and up to 14m long. These were installed in only 18 days, which included weekend working, to further minimise disruption to patient care.


FACILITIES FOR


ORTHOPAEDIC SERVICES This large, two-storey modular building has provided 56 new in-patient beds as single ensuite rooms and four-bed ward bays; two large state-of-the-art, clean air theatres for all orthopaedic procedures; theatre recovery room; ‘dirty’ and ‘clean’ utilities; staff changing room; reception; kitchenette; offices; 33-person ‘crash team’ lift, and an integral plant room.


The new facility was constructed and fitted out to permanent standards,


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