HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION Snags quickly resolved


Where space is at a premium – as it was on this project – the offsite solution is especially beneficial, as it reduces the amount of space required for construction, and requires fewer people on site for installation. Using our specialist facility also ensures that products are of a consistently excellent standard, with close control and strict quality assurance and quality control procedures. The factory inspection and test process also resolves snags quickly.


The images in Figure 1 show the BIM model against the final product, which was manufactured by NG Bailey’s offsite team – a new 200 mm (8 inch) steam header, which provides the hospital with all its heating and hot water.


An integrated team


Projects of this nature demand close collaboration with all parties to ensure that the safety of patients, staff, visitors, and the general public, is put first. The site team has integrated closely with the hospital estates team through regular liaison meetings and daily briefings. In order to accommodate the new energy centre, the site team had to excavate and remove 35,000 tonnes of earth from site. This posed a major logistical challenge, so a logistics strategy was put in place to accommodate safe movement of site traffic around the busy hospital estate. Removing the waste from site required 1,900 separate lorry loads. A critical part of the programme was making sure that business as usual was maintained throughout the build. A detailed methodology was developed, showing how the complex critical services would be maintained throughout the build phase, as well as the commissioning and switchover protocol to transfer from the ageing infrastructure network to the new sub-stations.


When working on such a busy acute hospital site as North Tees, it is imperative that there are no unplanned power outages which could potentially impact on hospital clinical activity. NG Bailey is working closely with North Tees and Hartlepool Solutions LLP to meticulously plan the electrical shutdowns, with each carefully detailed on a risk assessment and method statement, which is agreed by all parties prior to the works commencing.


Health and safety


For NG Bailey, the safety of the patients, visitors, staff, the local community, and site operatives, is always the number one priority, and the site team is proud that it has chalked up over 68,000 labour hours on site accident-free. One tool which helped achieve this is its safety QR code and online capture system, which allows anyone with a smartphone to report


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Figure 1: The BIM model (right) and ‘the final product’, manufactured by NG Bailey’s offsite team – a new 200 mm (8 inch) steam header.


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Where space is at a premium – as it was on this project – the offsite solution is especially beneficial, as it reduces the amount of space required for construction


observations about safe working; these are immediately communicated to the site team. The system allows the team to track safety observations, and monitors the progress in closing these out. The new system won the Innovation Award at the Committed to Construction in Humber and West Yorkshire (CCIHWY) Awards 2018, as well as being Highly Commended in the Constructing Excellence in Yorkshire and Humber (CEYH) Awards 2018.


NG Bailey operates to the highest possible safety standards, and, for several years in succession, has been recognised with Gold awards from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).


Community benefits


During the initial groundworks phase, the team donated circa 20 tonnes of surplus topsoil to a local community food growing group, Down to Earth, which was established to bring people in the local community together. The project currently has over 260 members, ranging in age from seven to 77. As well as promoting community engagement, the group supplies fresh produce to local food banks to support those in the community who are most in need. The group is currently working on a half-acre site located close to the hospital, and our team was happy to offer support. In addition to the topsoil, the team also donated 200 kg of screws and nails to help the group build more growing structures and plant beds. Over the course of the project, Down to Earth has collected ‘waste’ products such as pallets and broken scaffold, as well as more soil.


Working as principal contractor on this project, the team welcomed the opportunity to give something back to the local community, and this is a great initiative. As a responsible business, NG Bailey recognises that its responsibilities extend beyond our immediate operations, into the communities the company works within, and wider society as a whole. Re-using the topsoil from site not only helps this local group to undertake its activities and provide for the community, but also improves the sustainability credentials of the energy centre site, something NG Bailey as a company believes in greatly. Steven Taylor, assistant director of estates and capital at North Tees and Hartlepool Solutions LLP, felt the scheme was ‘a fantastic opportunity to be able to donate some of our topsoil to a brilliant community project which benefits the local area’. hej


Patrick Morrison


Patrick Morrison, NG Bailey’s Pre- contract manager for the healthcare sector, has been with NG Bailey for 31 years, working his way from apprentice electrician to his current position managing the healthcare sector for the entire engineering division of NG Bailey. He previously led an operations team that focused on delivering healthcare, and now oversees the pre-construction phase and framework bids on all healthcare schemes nationally.


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