OFFSITE BUILD AND ENGINEERING
NG Bailey says that its ‘offsite first’ approach maximises efficiency by delivering fully assembled components to site, and enables the hospitals it works on to remain fully operational throughout the build.
collaboration with hospital staff and the Estates team, and carefully planning routes of access and localised shutdowns to connect MEP systems, all while ensuring that the hospital remains operational. For these reasons, Estates teams need
to carefully consider who they partner with when undertaking refurbishments or new builds. Healthcare facility projects are complex by their very nature, so it’s of the utmost importance that those leading on the developments have experience working in these environments and can deliver the work in the safest, most efficient way possible using the most up- to-date techniques.
Expertise in healthcare: Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust At NG Bailey we have a long track record working on complex healthcare facilities. For nearly two decades we have worked in partnership with IHP on
By working collaboratively with hospitals to agree on a standardised ‘kit of parts’, NG Bailey says it can ensure that everything it produces is compliant, and delivers the best value for the project, ‘saving time and cost on lengthy re-designs’.
projects across England, most recently delivering nine projects together at Chesterfield Royal Hospital over a 10- year period. Our most recent project at Chesterfield Royal Hospital was the development of a new state-of-the-art Urgent and Emergency Care unit, as well as an extension and refurbishment of the Paediatric Assessment Unit. We used MMC throughout the development, with internal service modules and the pipe spools manufactured at our offsite facility. Our use of MMC allowed us to speed up the manufacture and installation of equipment, reducing the impact of the works on the wider hospital estate. This successful delivery meant that when the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust sought a partner for its Bassetlaw Hospital Emergency Care Village, NG Bailey and IHP were the perfect fit. We began work for the Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospital Trust at its site in Worksop in
October last year, with the project due to be completed this summer. We are delivering all mechanical, electrical and public health installations on site, which includes the new Emergency Care Village, as well as the refurbishment of existing clinical accommodation to create a new Children’s Assessment Unit (CAU) and new Assessment and Treatment Centre (ATC) at Bassetlaw Hospital.
Single-storey extension to A&E building The new build Bassetlaw Emergency Care Village will be a single-storey extension to the existing A&E building, which includes a main public entrance, as well as a secondary access route for ambulances. The refurbishment of the existing clinical accommodation will create an assessment and treatment centre ward and a children’s assessment unit. The new Children’s Assessment Unit will be located in close proximity to the hospital’s new 24/7 A&E department, so the finished developments will minimise the likelihood of patients being redirected to Doncaster Royal Infirmary, ensuring that patients can be seen more quickly, and helping to improve health outcomes. Keeping costs low, and work efficient,
sustainable, and safe, is vital in this development, which is why we are tackling these challenges head-on by collaboratively agreeing to a set of standardised components. This involves standardising solutions so they can be manufactured off site and slotted together in situ, meaning less people are needed during the installations, and in turn minimising the risk of contaminants and reducing labour hours on site. Historically, designs are progressed
Standardising solutions so they can be manufactured off site and slotted together in situ means less people are needed during installations, in turn minimising the risk of contaminants and reducing labour hours on site.
from concept through to the spatial coordination stage based upon traditional installation techniques. This means that key architectural design decisions are sometimes made against outdated engineering principles, which ultimately increases both the time needed on site
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