NIGHTINGALE HOSPITALS
Jeremy Watson said: “I joined my Eta colleagues at the Nightingale London during the first week of construction, and was tasked with leading the integration, testing, and commissioning, of critical power infrastructure. The pace of construction required a ‘hit the road running approach’, with the need to overcome challenges rapidly. The days were long and mentally draining, overcoming what retrospectively was a near vertical learning curve. Against what appeared to be insurmountable odds, we successfully commissioned 7.5 MVA of generator-supported Uninterruptible Power Supply systems to support critical clinical services in four days.”
The Project Support Team Step-by-step reporting ensured a constant stream of qualitive information between the design and construction teams, with the objective of handing over to the New Estates Management team. In the words of one key Project support manager: “I had the pleasure of working with Eta Projects during set-up and
construction of the Nightingale project. The team was fantastic from start to finish. Eugene, Kim, Rick, and the team were always on hand to provide support, expert advice, and reassurance, to any questions that came up from the senior risk officer or the team. When any issues occurred, Eta was on hand to provide solutions and understanding of how these sat within the project’s wider context. Having the team on board was a tremendous help, and we could not have done the work without them. Thank you to all those involved. It was one of the most difficult and demanding projects, but working together as a team made it all come together.”
MITIE – an emotive story Having worked in the NHS for over 20 years, I have developed maturity and a veneer of mental protection against the frontline treatment of seriously injured and / or ill patients. As the project neared completion, the MITIE team was accepting handover for its frontline support engineering workers. One was a young female engineer, Lauren Seakens, to whom I extended some advice. Asked if she had any experience of healthcare , she answered: ‘Yes and No’ – ‘Yes’ in terms of personal experience, when she and her mother carried out CPR on her father after he suffered a heart attack, and ‘No’, in that she had no other previous hospital experience. Thankfully, her father had survived – thanks to the CPR and the follow-up up treatment provided by the NHS.
Eta Projects director, Kim Shelley, taking time out with Testing and commissioning engineer, Alex Denes.
Following some collaborative working with the Eta Commissioning team, where she picked up knowledge of the electrical distribution to the medical floor, 24 hours
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Pictured (left to right) are: Rick Seymour (Eta), Andy Vernon (Hoare Lea), Graham Stone (Hoare Lea), and Eugene Conroy.
later she was gowning up to join the frontline medical staff on the floor, and providing engineering support services. She said: “Not knowing what I was going to walk into each day going onto the clinical floor had a big impact on me.”
Hoare Lea – commissioning and validation
As with all testing and commissioning, witnessing and documentation were key to the delivery and handover of the project to the incoming Estates team. This element involved many hours, late into the night, for the testing and commissioning team, which included the Hoare Lea Commissioning and Validation team under the lead of Andy Vernon, who says: “Hoare Lea was brought on board to witness the mechanical and electrical designs independently, and to take charge of commissioning the installation. Having the first 500 beds commissioned, signed off, and ready for a potential 500 patients, was as fast a programme of works as we are likely to work on. To keep pace with the installation teams, Graham Stone of Hoare Lea Property Services
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