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The maritime city of Liverpool has a striking new form on the city skyline, that of the curving prow of Clatterbridge Cancer Centre – Liverpool (CCC-L), already nicknamed ‘The Liner’. The spectacular cancer hospital, in the city’s Knowledge Quarter, opened on 27 June as part of a £162 m investment to transform cancer care in Cheshire and Merseyside. It will become the main hub in The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust’s network of treatment centres across the region, including its Wirral and Aintree sites, delivering a wide range of ‘highly specialist’ cancer care, including ‘pioneering’ chemotherapy, immunotherapy, gene therapy and radiotherapy.
The 11-storey building incorporates 110 single en-suite patient bedrooms and five radiotherapy linac treatment suites, stepping back in profile at its upper levels to create external terrace spaces for wards, especially for the chemotherapy floor. These offer panoramic views across Liverpool.
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permeate the plan, penetrating deep into the radiotherapy waiting area at semi- basement level, which is adjacent to a winter garden.”
The elevation has a variety of transparent, translucent, opaque, and graduated glazed fritted panels in a unitised cladding system, which sit on a more substantial brick plinth at street level. BDP, which provided architecture, landscape architecture, interior, and graphic design, with Laing O’Rourke as main contractor, and AECOM providing engineering services, said: “Despite its restricted urban context, the building enjoys a new beautifully landscaped urban public space with car parking below. This also allows daylight to
Architect Principal, Ged Couser, said: “This highly glazed building will become a beacon for cancer care in Liverpool and the wider region. Its modern sophisticated external skin is a clear expression of the cutting-edge research and care taking place within. Even in its tight urban context the internal spaces will have access to high quality external landscape, recognising the therapeutic value this brings.”
Dr Liz Bishop, Chief Executive of The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust, said “Clatterbridge Cancer Centre – Liverpool is the culmination of an eight-year vision that will bring state-of-the-art facilities and pioneering treatments to a region with one of the highest rates of cancer in the country. BDP’s truly stunning design for the new hospital rightly reflects the significance of this flagship development.”
Engineers’ views sought on their part during COVID-19 crisis The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE)
is running a global survey to improve understanding of the role of engineers involved in the COVID-19 response, and is keen to hear from any engineers that have worked on associated projects. The survey, part of the Academy’s Engineering X Pandemic Preparedness programme (
https://tinyurl.com/ydabajfz), is gathering evidence to facilitate global sharing of lessons amongst the engineering community on ‘disruptive
solutions and best practice’, and to inform the international engineering response to the pandemic. To respond, visit
https://tinyurl.com/y8kyvlvg The Academy says that ‘Engineering X’ (
https://tinyurl.com/yafur635) is ‘a new international collaboration that brings together some of the world’s leading problem-solvers to address the great challenges of our age’. It said: “Our global network of expert engineers, academics, and business leaders, are working in
partnership to share best practice, explore new technologies, educate and train the next generation of engineers, build capacity, improve safety, and deliver impact. The Engineering X community will bring together partners from around the world, building on a network of global alliances to tackle the most pressing engineering, safety, and sustainability problems, and developing practical, sustainable, and accessible solutions for the engineering profession worldwide.”
Intercall supplies emergency nurse call solutions Since the outbreak of the COVID-19
pandemic, Intercall, a supplier of nurse call, VoIP intercom, and affray alarm systems, says it has continued to manufacture, and to support the healthcare sector – ‘by observing the latest protocols to maintain operations, while protecting people in the work environment and beyond’, and continuing to provide service and support to its customers globally. Intercall systems have been specified in many temporary hospitals, clinics, and emergency wards, in the battle against COVID-19 worldwide, with the company ‘manufacturing to meet demand during these difficult times’.
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For instance, Intercall supplied urgently needed nurse call equipment to help prepare the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow for operation through its local partner, Sensorium, and was also recently awarded a contract to supply the 1,200- bed ADNEC field hospital project in Abu Dhabi, where the intention is to redeploy equipment to refurbish hospital systems once the emergency is declared over. The Intercall Care Card solution, which utilises contactless NFC technology for nurse call response, was promoted as a hygienic nurse call solution able to protect, and effectively serve, both nursing/clinical staff and patients. Intercall says it can supply its core nurse call ranges for
delivery both into the NHS and globally ‘as the world’s hotspots shift’.
Its systems are – it claims – ‘recognised for their simple installation, set-up, and reliability’, as well as their ability ‘to provide essential support both to nursing staff and patients in critical situations’.
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