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New GOSH cancer centre to be delivered by Sisk
Sisk has been appointed to deliver a new Children’s Cancer Centre (CCC) at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH) in central London. The development is being
supported by Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH Charity), which is in the midst of what it dubs ‘the biggest and most ambitious fundraising appeal in our history’. The ‘Build it. Beat it’ appeal aims to raise £300 m to help build the CCC, and ‘deliver transformation in cancer care, advance research, and save lives’. The project will deliver a new 19,000 m2 clinical building on Great Ormond Street, and a new front entrance and welcome area.
During construction, Sisk will employ over 500 people on site, hiring 37 apprentices, and creating over 20 work placements for local students. It has ‘digitally built the project in 4D’ before beginning on site, with the new building set to be fully Building Safety Act (BSA)- compliant – the UK’s first hospital to go through the BSA process. GOSH’s cancer services will move from some of its oldest buildings, and be co- located across four floors, ‘in a larger, cohesive centre, with a child-focused environment’. The hospital is also using the
opportunity to improve other services
‘essential to the delivery of the cancer care pathway and other specialities’. Construction is forecast to be complete in late 2028. GOSH and Sisk are working to
limit the impacts of the development on the local community and families coming to the hospital, using a range of different methods to limit the transmission of dust, noise, and vibrations – including wrapping the building frontage in sheeting, and carefully dismantling it section by section, with waste materials contained before being removed for recycling or re-use.
Framework will ‘address the need for robust fire safety systems in healthcare settings’
NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has launched a new framework agreement, Building Safety and Fire Compliance, ‘to address the need for robust fire safety systems in healthcare settings’. The framework
agreement ‘provides a full compliance offer’ – including active and passive fire safety,
fire risk assessment, and consultancy services, ‘essential to mitigate risks such as life hazards, liability, operational disruption, reputational damage, and legal penalties’. Brendan Griffin- Ryan, NHS SBS Senior Category manager (pictured), explained: “The increased emphasis on fire safety brought about by the dreadful Grenfell Tower disaster
has shown that some NHS buildings fail to meet modern safety standards, and underscores why fire safety compliance and protocols are paramount.” NHS SBS says the new
framework agreement allows procurement teams to access ‘vetted’ suppliers for specialist services like asbestos management, Legionella treatment, Authorising Engineers, and fire safety, ‘quickly and compliantly’. Suppliers range from multinationals to SMEs.
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