SPONSORED BY HEALTH SECTOR NEWS Complex £15.8 m theatre project completed
MTX has recently provided East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust with four new orthopaedic operating theatres at Canterbury’s Kent and Canterbury Hospital to enable it to accommodate increasing patient intake. The phased £15.8 m, 48-week project was completed in July. To deliver the four new theatres, MTX first had to construct a new medical physics building, and remove asbestos from, and then demolish, an existing office block, as well as refurbish a full day care surgery department. The new theatre complex links directly into the hospital’s ward department, close to the recently completed day care surgery unit. In all, 42 modules were used for the new theatres. The single-storey facility houses the four orthopaedic theatres – each with dedicated ‘prep’
ensuring that all the theatres fitted within the site constraints.
and anaesthetic facilities, a bright and spacious reception and waiting area, an eight-bed bed recovery bay, offices, a theatre store, staff rest area, and other ancillary facilities. A dedicated top floor plantroom supports the new facilities. Each theatre features a 3 m MAT ultraclean canopy, with integrated multi- movement pendants. The latter enabled MTX to maximise the canopy size, while
Four dedicated duplex pumps, plus a triplex vacuum and triplex surgical air plant, with duplex filters, provide a high level of resilience. The building is fully mechanically ventilated, with five air- handling units – one per theatre, and one for the recovery and ancillary space. The existing system was also modified to refeed some of the refurbished areas. The project was accelerated by prefabricating elements of the build, including pump skids.
The modules were constructed on top of a cast in-situ ground floor slab, ensuring compliance with the structural response factor. MTX added: “The slab was power floated to the highest level of accuracy (SR1), to ensure a perfect finish.”
Work on HDU and acute ward begins at Airedale General
Healthcare design and build contractor, Darwin Group, has started work on site to deliver a new project including a 15-bed high dependency unit (HDU) and 30-bed general acute ward at Airedale Hospital in Keighley, West Yorkshire. Built using Modern Methods of Construction, and scheduled for completion in March 2022, the accommodation will be built on a steep sloping site, and connected back to the existing hospital corridor at ground floor level. A new lower ground floor undercroft space will accommodate the
hospital’s services during the construction period. Large parts of the project will be delivered using a volumetric hybrid modular system manufactured offsite utilising MMC at the company’s factory.
plantroom for the new development. Darwin Group’s in-house management team is working closely with Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and its estates and facilities subsidiary, AGH Solutions, to ensure minimal disruption to the
Charles Pierce, Darwin Group’s MD, said: “We are proud to have delivered some fantastic NHS buildings, and are thrilled to add this project to our portfolio. The initial designs for the building look fantastic, and the team is looking forward to bringing the plans to life.”
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