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ISS Healthcare will provide all cleaning, portering, waste management, linen, pest control, helpdesk, and other ‘soft FM’ services, at the ExCeL London hospital. It anticipates recruiting up to 450 staff to undertake this work, as the hospital’s capacity ramps up.
interest as the first temporary emergency hospital completed and put into service – were admitted on 3 April. Having begun operating less than a fortnight after its conception, the Docklands facility was created for the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, with the sizeable exhibition venue converted into a treatment facility by main contractor, CFES, working with architectural practice, BDP – which also acted as structural engineer – and an extensive sub- contractor supply chain (the MEP engineers were The Richard Stephens Partnership, and the HV/LV infrastructure engineers, ETA Projects).
Feasibility study first undertaken BDP explained that 500 beds were initially set up in just nine days at ExCeL London, with the number set to rise to up to 4,000 over coming weeks. The practice said: “Having undertaken a study proposing the use of exhibition centres for large-scale temporary ICU facilities, our architects and engineers were contacted to help deliver the specialist healthcare conversion. Following the call, a team led by principal, James Hepburn, and architect director, Paul Johnson, was soon on site working with clinicians, consultants, the British Army, contractors – including main contractor, CFES, and ExCeL London’s facilities management team. The centre was an obvious choice for conversion, due to its large flat floor hall spaces, with flexible MEP infrastructure that can be easily adapted to meet the needs of the temporary hospital.”
The conversion of the main hall at the Grade II listed Manchester Central exhibition complex to the NHS Nightingale North West Hospital was undertaken by Integrated Health Projects – the joint venture between VINCI Construction UK and Sir Robert McAlpine – under the ProCure22 framework. The
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design was again undertaken by BDP, which was subsequently also appointed to design the new Nightingale Hospital in Harrogate. The Manchester emergency hospital – on which NHS staff, the Army, Mott MacDonald, Archus, and NG Bailey also worked, officially opened on 17 April. Iit had taken under three weeks to create, with up to 1,000 personnel working 24 hours a day to complete the 750-bedded hospital ‘from scratch’.
Birmingham’s NEC converted The construction of the third of the first three English NHS Nightingale hospitals – NHS Nightingale Birmingham – was led by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. Located at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre, it was built by Interserve, initially to accommodate up to 800 beds, but with the capacity to increase this to 4,000. Having become operational on 10 April, it is designed to take coronavirus patients from 23 Midlands hospitals ‘if units cannot cope with demand’. Interserve will also be providing FM services to the NHS Nightingale North West Hospital in Manchester, including catering, cleaning, maintenance,
portering, concierge, and waste management.
Elsewhere in the UK, the SEC Centre in Glasgow will become a temporary hospital with up to 300 beds, with the capacity for expansion to over 1,000. The Scottish emergency hospital will be named NHS Louisa Jordan in honour of a World War I nurse. The main contractors on the scheme are Balfour Beatty, GRAHAM, Kier Group, and Robertson Group. The Principality Stadium in Cardiff has been turned into a 2,000-bed temporary field hospital, the Dragon’s Heart Hospital (the first 300 beds were made available on Easter Sunday), while a tower block at Belfast City Hospital is being transformed into a 230-bed critical care hospital for patients in Northern Ireland. Meanwhile, Sir Robert McAlpine is helping deliver a temporary Nightingale hospital as part of Jersey’s response to Covid-19. The Jersey Nightingale Hospital will create an additional 180 beds for coronavirus patients, who will be provided with acute, enhanced, and ongoing levels of medical care. Sir Robert McAlpine is working on the project alongside its J3 Ltd joint venture partners, Garenne and FES. The hospital is under construction on Millbrook Playing Field, and will be operational in the first week of May, less than a month after the decision to build it. It will provide the extra inpatient care capacity expected to be required on the island as the number of islanders needing medical support in hospital increases.
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The NHS Nightingale Hospital London began operating less than a fortnight after its conception. The main contractor was CFES, working with architectural practice, BDP – which also acted as structural engineer – and an extensive sub-contractor supply chain.
organisations mobilised Steve Webb, Event Director at Step Exhibitions, which co-organises Healthcare Estates with IHEEM, said: “The creation of the seven Nightingale hospitals in England – and equally the additional emergency hospitals planned in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and
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