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Darwin to deliver Cardiff COVID ‘surge facility’
Modular construction specialist, Darwin Group, is to build the new Lakeside Wing at University Hospital of Wales (UHW) in Cardiff as part of a £33 million project led by the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (CAVUHB).
Following confirmation of Welsh Government funding support, the Shropshire-based firm will deliver a temporary ‘surge facility’ to ensure sufficient patient capacity in the event of a second spike in COVID-19 cases. The temporary U-shaped modular building will be located at the area outside of Lakeside at UHW, and is to be created following the decision by CAVUHB, in conjunction with the Welsh Government, to decommission the Principality Stadium as a field hospital.
Work is already underway, with Darwin Group on track to deliver the Northern Wing of the building as part of the development’s first phase by as early as 25 November, thanks to modern methods of construction. Following the completion of the Southern Wing, Darwin Group expects to hand over the keys for the entire building by early February
2021.The temporary facility will accommodate up to 400 beds – which is in addition to 200 beds already developed across CAVUHB’s sites.
Darwin Group says its team of
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designers, town planners, and construction professionals, provides a ‘unique turnkey service’ covering all stages of design, planning, and construction, ‘from start to finish’ – and was only appointed by CAVUHB in September to deliver the project. Geoff Walsh, director of Capital, Estates and Facilities at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, added: “We’re pleased to be working with Darwin Group on providing this temporary surge facility as part of the Health Board’s rapid and considered response to a second potential spike in the COVID-19 pandemic. Although construction is moving at pace, and we’re working to a tight schedule, every decision is made with our patients’ and staff members’ safety in mind. We anticipate that no services, patient clinics, or appointments, will be affected by construction.”
Architect appointed for ‘transformation’ of North Manchester General
Sheppard Robson has been appointed as lead architect for ‘the ambitious redevelopment’ of North Manchester General Hospital. In a project that recently received £54m through the Department of Health and Social Care’s Health Infrastructure Plan, the practice has been appointed to ‘transform’ the NMGH estate, ‘creating a focal point for the community, with integrated health and social care facilities, high-quality new homes, and access to better education and training, alongside major new public open spaces’.
Sheppard Robson says the project – led by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust with Manchester City Council and Manchester Health and Care Commissioning, and supported by HIVE Projects – recognises that over 70 per cent of the existing estate is ‘in desperate need of rebuilding’. The firm has been appointed as lead consultant
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Water hygiene in healthcare facilities has always been vital to the recovery and wellbeing of patients, and the health and safety of the workforce, stresses Trend Controls, adding that the challenges to healthcare from the global pandemic ‘have only accentuated the need for proper water management’. The company said: “Amid the drama and uncertainty of current times, it is important to remember that existing regulations and standards – such as those underpinned by the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 – must be upheld. Even in the last couple of years, cases of Legionnaire’s disease arising from poor water quality have still occurred with alarming regularity. Despite the notorious complexity of healthcare water systems in healthcare, a recognised way to achieve greater control over waterborne infection is by via a Building Energy Management System (BEMS). Properly implemented, a BEMS can monitor and manage up to 84 per cent of a building’s energy- consuming devices, giving estates managers the confidence to take control of water management at a time when occupant safety has never been so acutely important.” *See also the special ‘Water hygiene and safety in healthcare’ section on pages 53-82 of this issue.
Diary dates
26 NOV HEJ/Inenco webinar: How NHS Trusts can ‘turn compliance into an opportunity’ – by creating an effective ‘Green Plan’, 11.00 am. To register, visit
https://event.webinarjam.com/register/ 30/m0mlvh7k
2021
and architect for the acute hospital buildings in collaboration with Medical Architecture, as well as the education centre and administration buildings. Sheppard Robson has been working on the masterplan for the development for nearly a year, leading a team that includes landscape designer, Gillespies, transport consultant, Curtins, and planning consultant, Turley. The masterplan’s overarching aim is ‘to promote active and healthy lifestyles and the wellbeing of staff, patients, visitors, and the community’, and its ‘design principle’, to create a highly sustainable collection of buildings set around a new ‘village green’.
23-28 JAN IFHE 26th World Congress, Auditorium della Tecnica, Rome, hosted by the SIAIS (more updates to follow). Triumph Group. T: +39 635530228;
www.ifhe2020roma.info
9-10 JUN Design in Mental Health 2021 Conference, Exhibition & Awards Dinner, Ricoh Arena, Coventry.
www.designinmentalhealth.com
19-20 OCT Healthcare Estates 2021, Manchester Central. T: 01892 518877;
www.healthcare-estates.com
1-2 NOV IHEEM Dublin Conference, Exhibition and Awards Dinner 2021, Croke Park, Dublin.
E:
dublin2020@iheem.org.uk
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