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HEALTH SECTOR NEWS Radiopharmacy facility ready for ‘3Ts’ project
Medical Air Technology (MAT) has designed and installed a new radiopharmacy suite as part of the major 3Ts (Teaching, Trauma, and Tertiary care) redevelopment at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. The company has delivered the
new suite within the Nuclear Medicine department, working under main contractor, Laing O’Rourke. It is located in the Louisa Martindale Building, the first and largest stage of the 3Ts redevelopment. MAT handed over the facility on time in February. In addition to the new radiopharmacy, the building will house outpatient and inpatient services, Critical Care, Neurosciences, and a new stroke unit across its eleven floors. MAT designed the radiopharmacy suite in close consultation with the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust – designing and installing air-handling units, BMS controls, an environmental monitoring system (EMS), interlocking automated door systems, an isolator extract, and ductwork. The airflow design facilitates cascading pressure, which ensures that the most stringent cleanroom zone has the highest level of pressure, and the least stringent cleanroom zone the lowest; the flow of contamination is thus ‘from clean
to less clean’. Pressure monitoring panels show that room pressures are correct, and can be easily checked by the Laboratory manager, with the EMS’s ‘user-friendly graphics’ indicating room status. From the main lobby, the suite divides into two areas: n A ‘hot lab’ for the delivery, storage, and preparation, of the radioactive materials required for diagnostic imaging and radiotherapy, specifically Technetium.
n A cleanroom for blood cell labelling, used to diagnose or treat illness. Each area has five rooms, accessed via automatic, access-controlled glass doors: an outer support room, an outer change room, an inner support room, an inner change room, and a cleanroom. HEPA-filtered pass-through hatches provide a safe way to transfer products and materials between cleanrooms and adjacent non-sterile areas, while vision panels allow constant visual monitoring from the first to the last room in each suite. Emergency stop buttons can switch off
the associated air-handling unit if there is a spill, ensuring toxic elements are not
Redevelopment of Manchester’s Paterson building completed
Following a fire which caused significant damage to the Paterson cancer research facility in 2017, building work on the new Paterson building at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester has been completed.
The building is part of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre – ‘a highly successful partnership between three powerhouses of innovation’ – The Christie, Cancer Research UK, and The University of Manchester – and will reportedly be one of the world’s top cancer research centres. Integrated Health Projects (IHP), the joint venture between VINCI Building and Sir Robert McAlpine, and its supply chain partners, BDP, Arup, and Imtech, says the ‘partners’ have ‘realised a fantastic, state- of-the-art facility that will lead world- class transformational cancer research’. VINCI Building said: “The building is set to become home to Europe’s largest concentration of scientists, doctors, and nurses. Some 300 scientists and 400 clinicians and operational staff,
ventilated further throughout the hospital and locale, while one room on each side has an escape panel with a rubber seal that can be ripped off in the event of a fire to provide an emergency exit. Throughout the build, many different partners were working simultaneously in the Louisa Martindale Building, making coordinating all services a challenge for the MAT installation team. Proactive project management, however, ensured no significant delays. The air-handling plants that MAT installed are on basement level 2, and the radiopharmacy suite on level 2. Mechanical and electrical coordination was thus unusually complex, as it crossed different fire containment zones, necessitating close liaison on drawings between all contractors.
New Engineering Council CEO set for diverse agenda
practicing ‘team science’, will deliver clinical trials covering the full extent of the patient pathway – from prevention and novel treatments, to living with and beyond cancer.” At over 25,000 m2
and 10 storeys
high, the building is over twice the size of the previous facility, allowing experts to deliver discovery research and translate their findings into innovative clinical trials ‘at scale’.
Paul Bailey has been appointed as the new CEO of the Engineering Council, succeeding Alasdair Coates. The Engineering Council’s Deputy CEO & Operations Director for over eight years, and before that Deputy CEO at the Royal Aeronautical Society, he said: “I look forward to continuing the Engineering Council’s work with all our stakeholders, particularly our registrants and the professional engineering institutions, to position professional registration as a cornerstone of an innovative, forward-looking industry. “I am dedicated to
continuing our focus on key societal matters, such as diversity and inclusion, ethics, and sustainability, as we continue to ensure there are no barriers to professional recognition. The Engineering Council plays a very important role in regulating and promoting the engineering profession”.
June 2023 Health Estate Journal 13
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