HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION
‘Business as usual’ during energy centre work
Patrick Morrison, NG Bailey’s Healthcare Sector lead, explains how its engineering division is delivering better value for hospital Trusts by undertaking major infrastructure works as a principal contractor, as demonstrated in its work creating a new energy centre for North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust.
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, an integrated hospital and community services healthcare organisation, serves around 400,000 people across Hartlepool, Stockton, and parts of County Durham. Providing emergency and planned medical and surgical care, maternity services, and a wide range of diagnostic services and outpatient clinics, The University Hospital of North Tees in Stockton has a need to renew its ageing infrastructure in preparation for its ongoing Sustainability and Transformation Plan. As part of this, there is a requirement for a new energy centre capable of serving the entire site. As well as being flexible to meet future demand, the centre also needs to be more reliable, energy-efficient, and environmentally-friendly.
£25 million in investment funding The new energy centre was a key part of the Trust’s investment plans, after it successfully secured £25 million to carry out much-needed investment in its infrastructure. The Trust’s estates and facilities management is run by North Tees and Hartlepool Solutions LLP (NT&HS), a wholly owned subsidiary company of North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, which worked closely with NG Bailey throughout the
project. Steven Taylor, assistant director of estates and capital for NT&HS LLP, which acted as project manager on the project, explained that parts of the hospital – and particularly the boilers, heating, and electrical plant – are now nearly 50 years’ old, and the organisation needed to replace them to ensure that services remain safe and reliable and able to maintain the hospital’s operational effectiveness.
A new approach to hospital infrastructure procurement The new energy centre sits within the busy existing hospital estate, and will house new electrical switchgear and generators, a combined heat and power (CHP) unit, three steam boilers producing 5,600 kg of steam per hour, new water storage tanks, oil storage tanks, and associated mechanical and electrical infrastructure. The Trust secured funds to carry out the much-needed investment in infrastructure. Given that the building services (mechanical, electrical, and public health [MEP]) form the majority of works, the Trust decided to establish a construction framework for major engineering infrastructure projects to reduce the procurement risks. NG Bailey tendered for the opportunity as principal contractor; which was a new approach to project delivery for the Trust. The company’s engineering division specialises in the design, installation, and commissioning of building services on all types of construction projects throughout the UK. However, it has the specialist expertise to also operate in the primary role as principal contractor.
NG Bailey’s work on Phase two includes the superstructure and forming of the major energy centre building, as well as the forming of two new reinforced concrete below-ground walkways to link the new energy centre into the existing hospital infrastructure.
Expertise and experience Following a successful tender process, the Trust selected NG Bailey as principal contractor for the energy centre project, as it demonstrated that it had the expertise and experience to deliver a fully coordinated solution that offered best overall value. It is increasingly becoming principal contractor on jobs where the technical solution is a higher proportion of the project cost, and has completed
In addition to the works inside the energy centre, NG Bailey has supplied multiple services distribution modules to link the energy centre primary steam, low temperature hot water, gas, domestics, compressed air, LV, and HV, to the existing hospital site.
works to the value of around £50 million per year as principal contractor – a figure expected to increase year-on-year. Julie Gillon, chief executive at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, said NG Bailey’s appointment for the energy centre marked the next phase of an exciting project for the Trust, which will ensure that it secures the long-term future of the hospital, and allow it to continue to give the very best care to its patients. As well as having a proven track- record operating as a principal contractor, and a highly skilled team on board, NG Bailey already has a well-established relationship spanning more than 50 years with the University Hospital of North Tees, having installed the services in the original hospital in the late 1960s.
February 2019 Health Estate Journal 51
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