IHEEM HEALTHCARE ESTATES 2021 AWARDS


Andy Powell (right) presents the Best New-Build Project of the Year Award to CHP’s Regional director, North-West, Andy Muir, for the Foleshill Heath Centre in Coventry.


Commended. The entry added: “A major feature of this hospital is that the Medical and Dentistry Departments cooperate to provide medical care, reflecting the principle that good medical care should address the health of the whole body. By arranging various clinical departments facing the waiting space with the atrium, visitors are made aware of the existence of many clinical departments. The spatial composition encourages patients to think: ‘Let’s see an opthalmologist', while waiting for their dental appointment. Due to the facility’s characteristics, we are aiming to integrate education, research, and clinical practice.” The hospital also makes use of natural energy, lighting, and natural ventilation, with an energy-saving design.


The UK’s ‘greenest health centre’ The winner of the Best New-Build Project of the Year was Community Health Partnerships (CHP), for the Foleshill Health Centre in Coventry. The entry explained that CHP wanted to build a ‘proof-of- concept’ Passivhaus replacement community health centre in 2020/21 to demonstrate that increased capital cost (16.7%) could be offset by reduced operational costs from an ‘ultra-low carbon’ development. It said: “Compared with its traditional build benchmark, carbon savings (411 tonnes/CO2


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accumulate from day one, and total cost is lower from year 23 of its 60-year design life. Foleshill also yields substantial CO2 savings, by replacing its 20-year-old predecessor that was in ‘temporary’ buildings. The new health centre’s offsite modular construction took 13 weeks off the site build programme, and saw it open faster, while significantly reducing site labour during COVID working restrictions. The centre has achieved BREEAM Excellent and an EPC A rating. Its thermal performance and airtightness are significantly better than would be allowed to satisfy standard Part L certification. Annual energy consumption will be just


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GIA, compared with 98kWh/m2 for the equivalent traditional build. Despite additional capital costs and an NHS energy inflation cap of just 1 per cent/per annum, Foleshill’s total costs are still less expensive within 25 years.”


31kWh/m2


Healthcare Supplier of the Year The next award, for Healthcare Supplier of the Year, saw the following shortlisted: n JCA Engineering. n SHJ Medical Gas Specialists. n T Clarke – Estates Support and PRU. n Angel Guard washbasin with AI technology.


n EMS Group Solutions: COVID-19 Mobile Testing Facilities.


Andy Powell said the category had been particularly difficult to choose a winner in. Highly Commended was EMS Group Solutions for its COVID-19 Mobile Testing Facilities. The company said: “In the spring of 2020, demand for COVID-19 testing capacity accelerated at extraordinary speed. Conscious that people’s health was reliant on the ability to access timely and accurate testing, we diverted our focus to supporting the delivery of the ‘Test and Trace’ system. Utilising resources from across Group, we were able to supply 28 mobile units and 10 modular structures. Thanks to our facilities, UK testing capacity expanded by up to 120,000 tests per week. It is testament to an extraordinary team that the first vehicles were produced and deployed within just six days of being commissioned. We are incredibly proud of how everyone in the team worked quickly, tirelessly, and with industry-leading expertise, to both deliver the units and integrate with other suppliers.”


COVID response exemplified company’s approach


The winner of the Healthcare Supplier of the Year Award was SHJ Medical Gas Specialists. Its entry said: “While SHJ has


Phil Hudson, Operations manager at SHJ Medical Gas Specialists (centre), receives the Healthcare Suppler of the Year Award from Sales manager for Healthcare Estates 2021, Jay Stacy (left).


been valued as a high-quality medical gas supplier by hospitals for over 50 years, it is our response to COVID-19 which we believe exemplifies our strong commitment to customer service and satisfaction. While the rest of the UK went into lockdown, our engineers and office support teams swung into action as requests for installation and maintenance skyrocketed. We added numerous COVID- related projects to our regular workload, including developing a brand-new oxygen flow monitoring product, FLO2, at customer request. We upgraded pipework and ring mains to increase oxygen capacity; installed new oxygen cylinder manifolds; provisioned wards converted to COVID units from existing facilities, and even equipped new wards built in temporary cabins in the grounds of some hospitals – all alongside an increased maintenance schedule. During the pandemic’s early days, staff were working 12-hour days, seven days a week, to maintain service levels in the face of greatly increased demand. Senior management joined engineers on the frontline, and remained on call 24 hours a day to offer maximum support. At a time of huge uncertainty, everyone concerned demonstrated professionalism, commitment, customer focus, and great personal bravery.”


Sales manager for Healthcare Estates 2021 at Step Exhibitions, Jay Stacy, presented the award to Phil Hudson, Operations manager, SHJ Medical Gas Specialists.


Refurbishment Project of the Year Shortlisted for the next award – for Refurbishment Project of the Year, were: n The NEC Nightingale Hospital, Birmingham.


n Leicester Children’s Hospital, East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre.


n Nightingale Hospital Exeter. n The Poppy Ward refurbishment for Dementia Specialist Care, Salford.


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