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UK’s ‘greenest health centre’ opens to patients in Coventry
A building described as ‘the UK’s greenest health centre built to meet Passivhaus certification’ – Foleshill Health Centre in Coventry – has opened its doors (see HEJ – September 2021).
The £3.3 million facility is the result of a partnership between Community Health Partnerships (CHP) and NHS Coventry and Warwickshire Clinical Commissioning Group. The new tenants, Foleshill Surgery – a GP practice, part of Coventry and Rugby GP Alliance, have now moved in. The Centre serves an area of Coventry with high health needs. The developers say it is ‘one of the most energy-efficient buildings in the NHS estate’. Constructed on site in just 25 weeks, it was built with Portakabin modules specially designed to international Passivhaus sustainability standards. The modules were designed and manufactured at Portakabin’s York manufacturing facility, before being transported to Coventry and reassembled, becoming watertight in just three days. The final fit-out, plus the insulation and roof installation , were completed on site. Foleshill already has an energy performance certificate (EPC) A Rating, making it one of the UK’s most energy-
£1.5 m furniture and fit-out contract for Brighton ‘3Ts’
Main contractor, Laing O’Rourke, has awarded the £1.5 m furniture and fit-out contract for the first phase of the £485 m ‘3Ts’ redevelopment of Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton to Deanestor, which will manufacture around 17,000 items of furniture for the project, and fit out 2,000 rooms across the new, purpose-designed 11-storey building.
efficient health buildings, with annual utility running costs projected to be around a third the cost of a traditional build. There is a small heating system using air source heat pumps connected to small radiators. Photovoltaic solar panels feature on the roof, and all the lighting is provided by energy-efficient LED lamps. The building is a CHP-delivered, public capital funded scheme, delivered without the need for debt funding or joint ventures, using the NHS SBS procurement framework. Delivery partners included Portakabin (main contractor), Tooley Foster Architects (Passivhaus specialists), AECOM infrastructure consultants, and Arden Estate Partnerships (development management).
C-TEC releases revamped accessible toilet alarm kit
C-TEC has released an updated version of its NC951 accessible toilet alarm kit. ‘Stylish, compact, and very cost- effective’, the new-look kit contains ‘everything needed to create a BS8300-clause compliant single zone emergency assistance system for any building’.
In addition to allowing distressed people to raise an alarm in the event of an emergency, it also includes a ‘Call Accept’ function to allow staff to send
an intermittent call acknowledgment signal inside the WC compartment to confirm that help is on the way. Encased in smaller, ‘environmentally- friendly’ packaging, the kit now features an updated NC807C pull cord unit mountable on a ceiling or wall dependent on the application. C-TEC’s Sales manager, Brian Foster, said: “The re- packaging and added versatility of our market-leading NC951 is testament to our commitment to continuously refining and improving existing products. We believe this new version will prove very popular, especially as we have kept the cost of the product the same.”
Currently celebrating its 40th anniversary, C-TEC claims to be ‘one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of world- class life-safety systems’. The company’s latest innovations include CAST, its new own-protocol fire detection and alarm system, Hush, a ‘revolutionary’ new BS 5839-6 Grade C domestic fire alarm system, and EVAC-ALERT, a new evacuation alert system designed to meet the g requirements of the new BS 8629:2019 standard.
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Deanestor has a long-standing relationship with Laing O’Rourke and architect, BDP.
Stage one of the 3Ts redevelopment, being fitted out by Deanestor, will house inpatient wards on the upper floors, mainly comprising en-suite rooms with sea views. The lower floors accommodate outpatient and diagnostics services in spacious, modern surroundings. Public-facing services on the first and sixth floors include the main reception, waiting areas, retail units, a café, and welfare and wellbeing facilities.
Deanestor’s bespoke joinery includes a ‘stunning’ 6 m diameter main hospital reception desk featuring natural walnut hardwood and veneers. It will also manufacture and install 35 nurse stations and staff bases with solid surface finishes and wood grain fascias, 40 staff touchdown bases, and hospital furniture for all consulting rooms, patient bedrooms, and utilities – including base and wall storage units with white Formica door fronts, adjustable shelving units – some with HTM 71 tray inserts, and solid grade laminate worktops to patient bedrooms.
The Deanestor team will fit over 10,000 individual products procured by the Trust, such as rack storage systems, dispensers, clocks, noticeboards, benching, and white goods, and stainless steel furniture for the catering areas on each floor.
©Beth Walsh
©BDP
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