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HEALTH SECTOR NEWS £380 m UCLH proton beam facility completed


The new University College Hospital Grafton Way Building, a major new central London healthcare facility incorporating a ‘revolutionary’ proton beam (PBT) therapy centre, has been completed. AECOM was the client’s project manager (NEC contract duties and proton beam therapy equipment installation), specialist risk, and programme manager. Built for University College London Hospital (UCLH) by Bouygues UK, the ‘landmark building’ also includes eight operating theatres, a surgical recovery area, a surgical ward, an imaging centre, a 10-bed critical care unit, and three floors of inpatient haematology wards. AECOM said: “The completion marks the creation of one of Europe’s largest dedicated haemato-oncology hospitals.” The £380 m facility’s centrepiece is a


‘state-of-the-art’ proton beam therapy centre, only the UK’s second of its type, which will treat those with complex cancers and blood disorders. The facility will treat 650 people with cancer and benign tumours annually, around a third being children and teenagers. Proton beam therapy delivers highly targeted treatment that pinpoints a tumour while sparing the surrounding tissue, making it


people in its construction, which included the removal of 80,000 m3 of earth from the site. The proton beam therapy centre required shielding, including 44,000 m3


of


concrete to form walls typically two metres thick, with areas up to five metres, reinforced with approximately 8,000 tonnes of steel. AECOM Project director, Sam Danquah, said: “Almost six years ago, I stood on the site of a demolished cinema and hospital at Grafton Way, envisioning how


particularly beneficial for younger people, as it protects IQ, general growth, and fertility. The new, 34,600 m2


building is located


in a tight site within the Bloomsbury conservation area, close to two Grade II-listed UCL buildings and London Underground lines. To create the necessary clinical space while respecting protected views and surrounding heritage, the 13-storey building – which was designed by Scott Tallon Walker Architects in association with Edward Williams Architects – includes a five- storey, 28-metre-deep basement equivalent in volume to the Royal Albert Hall. The project involved around 3,000


Deanestor fits out Cairngorms National Park’s first new hospital


Healthcare furniture specialist, Deanestor, has delivered its latest hospital fit-out contract to a community


hospital in Aviemore in the Scottish Highlands. Built by Balfour Beatty for Hub North


Scotland, the £20 m Badenoch and Strathspey Community Hospital is the first constructed in the Cairngorms National Park. It has 24 inpatient beds, 12 consulting/treatment rooms, Minor Injuries, Outpatients, Physiotherapy, an NHS dental suite, GP services, and X-ray facilities, and is a base for the Scottish Ambulance Service. Deanestor fitted out 120 rooms, manufacturing bespoke SHTM63-compliant storage cabinets, wardrobes, shelving, worktops, and fold-away beds. The storage solutions have a laminate finish in two shades of blue to reflect the surrounding sky and sea. Darker blue was used for inpatient bedrooms and utility areas, with ‘calming aqua’ for treatment areas. Infill panels


integrate the wall cupboards up to the ceiling – ‘an effective alternative to sloping cabinet tops’.


Deanestor supplied curtain tracks around the beds in treatment rooms and bedrooms,


and a main reception desk finished in glacier white with contrasting oak laminate. The treatment rooms have fitted cabinets with roller shutters and drawers. It equipped the pharmacy with tall cabinets, worktops, dispensing cabinets with integrated trays, and metal drugs cabinets, and installed a wide range of specialist equipment throughout the hospital – ‘from physiotherapy bars to whiteboards’. The new hospital, designed by Oberlanders Architects and Rural Design, is one of two community hospitals built for NHS Highland. A second – the new Broadford Hospital on Skye – is also being fitted out by Deanestor, and was designed by the same architects.


we were going to project manage the build of something larger than the Royal Albert Hall beneath my feet. Little did we know then the challenges that would come our way – from a global pandemic to Brexit – let alone the sheer complexity of constructing a hospital above ground and installing life-changing proton beam therapy equipment below ground. Through problem-solving, strong governance, and project controls, we met an ambitious delivery programme and budget. Seeing UCLH’s vision for a world-class healthcare facility in action brings enormous pride, not just in what the delivery partners achieved through collaboration, but in what the facility can to do transform patient outcomes.”


Airmec partnership with Southern Health continues


Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust has once again awarded its water hygiene services tender, to include water safety risk assessments and water sampling, to Airmec Essential Services. An independent expert in water


hygiene services, which works with healthcare organisations to manage the risks of Legionella and Pseudomonas through regular water safety testing, Airmec Essential Services has helped the Trust manage and audit water compliance processes cost-effectively, working across its ‘multiple and varied’ sites, for the past four years. Under the renewed contract, its


water engineers will continue to sample water at 64 of the Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust’s 300+ sites, which – between them – provide a complete range of inpatient and outpatient community health services.


March 2022 Health Estate Journal 11


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