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Prefabricated wall system met ‘unprecedented challenge’
Building Services Now (BSN), a specialist main contractor, has worked collaboratively with Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust to provide alterations and improvements to the existing hospital facilities at Sandwell General Hospital in West Bromwich in response to changing clinical needs in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. BSN explained: “The Trust faced an unprecedented challenge which required immediate action. As the extent of the COVID-19 pandemic became clear, it had had a clinical need to quickly modify existing ward space and provide additional facilities, in order to keep both staff and patients safe, and reduce the potential spread of the disease. The Trust’s highest priority was the segregation of ward areas to accommodate individual beds and provide COVID-19 patients with specialist treatment.”
The BSN team took on the project following a request for the installation of dividing screens and doors on multiple wards at Sandwell General Hospital from Steve Lawley, Deputy director of Estates (Contract and Commercial Management) at Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust.
The bespoke solution, which took only seven days from initial concept to completion, consisted of a prefabricated, prefinished dividing wall system, complete with sliding pocket doors incorporating 6 mm toughened glass
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vision panels. This provided the required segregation, yet also maintained the full visibility of all areas required by hospital staff. As the system was developed offsite, installation time within the wards was quick, with minimal disruption to staff and patients, and crucially, less physical interaction, to help prevent the spread of the virus.
Ben Cohen, co-founder of BSN, said: “Following the success and incredible feedback on the ward segregation project that we have carried out at Sandwell General Hospital, we are now consulting with other Trusts across the UK on similar solutions which can meet their new requirements.”
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