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Project manager appointed for ‘billion-pound’ Airedale scheme
Gleeds has been named project manager for the ‘billion-pound redevelopment’ of Airedale General Hospital in Keighley, West Yorkshire, on behalf of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. The award-winning Trust employs
over 3,000 people, and provides acute, elective, specialist. and community care for a population of over 200,000 across Yorkshire and East Lancashire. Gleeds will be responsible for delivering a new ‘state-of-the-art’ facility and associated amenities that it says will meet evolving patient needs under the government’s New Hospital Programme (NHP). The consultancy will work closely
with the team from the Trust, alongside representatives from the NHP, an architect-led design team, and contractors, to design and construct a ‘modern, more sustainable hospital’ on the existing site. The new-build will replace the current hospital. which was constructed of Reinforced
SSD and aseptic pharmacy completed in Southampton
Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC), with the project harnessing digital technologies, Modern Methods of Construction, and Design for Manufacture and Assembly. Alastair Stewart, the Trust’s
Programme Director, said: “We’re delighted to have Gleeds on board as our project manager partner for our Securing the Future programme – a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art Airedale General Hospital that our patients, staff, and community, deserve.”
Gleeds’ director responsible for
the project, John Walker, added: “Airedale NHS Foundation Trust does incredible work, and this ambitious scheme represents an opportunity to further transform the health offer for patients in the long term, improving care, and ensuring that its facilities are future-proofed. As someone who lives locally, having the opportunity to secure the future of Airedale Hospital is a real privilege, and I look forward to collaborating with the Project team as we get works underway.”
‘Pipe dream’ becomes reality for Aerocom at Europe’s largest medical campus
Aerocom (UK) is on its way to installing one of its biggest ever pneumatic tube systems – (PTS) at the 150- acre Cambridge Biomedical Campus. It has recently completed
the full-scale upgrade of an existing 2.5 km tube system at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, and hopes to win its tenders to install 700 metres of additional tubing at the Cambridge Cancer Research Centre and a new Women and
Children’s Hospital, both yet to be completed. This follows its installation of a further 1.5 kms of pneumatic tubing at Papworth Hospital when it relocated to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus six years ago. The Nottingham-based firm also installed a 50-metre cash tube system in the PFI main hospital’s shopping concourse, connecting the M&S Simply Food store to the retailer’s office. Tom Hughes, Aerocom (UK) MD, said: “The recent Addenbrooke’s
upgrade was a complex project, but one completed in almost record time.”
At Addenbrooke’s, Aerocom
(UK) replaced all the associated equipment to the existing PTS tubing in under three weeks. This included upgrading to its AC3000 system, installing 36 interconnecting ‘stations’, and 60 metres of additional tubing, to create a new ‘fast-track point- to-point system’ for the A&E department. A new linear ‘couple’ has also been installed to connect the existing four independent zones, with extra slots for two new zones as required. A new auto- unload station will be installed in the next few weeks.
With a modern PTS, samples or
drugs are placed in airtight PVC canisters at one of the ‘stations’, a desired destination is programmed in, and the canister is propelled there via an often complex network of tubing, mostly hidden in ceiling spaces and service areas. The systems are computerised, and every transportation RFID-tagged.
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The completion of two advanced healthcare facilities at Southampton’s Adanac Health and Innovation Campus ‘marks a significant step forward in improving regional healthcare services’, the project partners say. Developer, Prime plc, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS), Willmott Dixon, Macquarie Group, and IHSS, say the ‘milestone’ emphasises the growing impact of public-private collaboration in the healthcare sector. Located within the campus’s
Plot 2, the new facility houses ‘a highly specialised’ aseptic pharmacy and Sterile Services Department. It will also produce sterile medicines for University Hospital Southampton and other NHS providers across the region. One of its capabilities will be the upcoming production of TBN, ‘a vital drug’ for premature babies, produced exclusively there for the entire southern UK. The facility’s construction involved both the main contractor, Willmott Dixon, and Enblock – a specialist in delivering design and build cleanrooms, with the development achieving BREEAM ‘Excellent’ certification. Prime said: “Working in
partnership with service delivery partner, IHSS, the project highlights the success and value of public-private partnerships in addressing the growing demands of healthcare infrastructure. The facility will support UHS, one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching hospitals, by alleviating space constraints and bolstering the hospital’s ability to provide cutting-edge care to patients.”
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