OFFSITE CONSTRUCTION
Around 100-120 patients can be treated the same day across four specialisms, without the need for hospital admissions.
as the ground is broken. To achieve this, detailed design information has to be released to the manufacturing teams at a much earlier stage than with site-based construction – and that necessitates earlier decision-making on the part of the Trust. Building Information Modelling allows better client engagement, with the use of 3D models. Healthcare professionals and clinicians, for example, are not trained to read 2D construction drawings. If data- rich, fully detailed 3D BIM models and ‘virtual reality walkthroughs’ are used, the design details can be communicated much more effectively to stakeholders, and design options presented for discussion in a far better way. The Trust also benefits from better internal communications about their new facilities.
Virtual reality in practice Advances in virtual reality (VR) have allowed McAvoy to actually put clients and end-users into their virtual building as
The clinical teams had full involvement right from the project’s inception.
part of the design process. Stakeholders can feel and experience the clinical and patient environments, and are now able to validate instantly whether the layouts work for them. VR takes client engagement to another level, and works alongside BIM. It is another way to communicate with healthcare providers, allowing users to engage fully, and to review the design as it develops. This removes the potential for
misinterpretation of drawings and data loss.
Using a headset, you can be in the space in a building and benefit from instant, and more informed, decision making. On the Northumbria project, VR and 3D modelling were used via QR codes to assist the user group in assessing the building design and layout. This also helped to inform other stakeholders about how the proposed spaces would be used on completion. Nurses could ‘walk through’ the building
for familiarisation. This digital solution gave the client full awareness of the space and how the different specialisms would interact.
Ability to check interfaces The user group was able to experience the facilities, check adjacencies, and select colour schemes, in a virtual environment as part of the detailed design phase. One person wearing a headset would ‘drive’ the VR, with others in the group looking on. This allowed colour options for floors, walls, architraves, and handrails, to be agreed as a group, for example, and very efficiently. Such decisions can be difficult for clinicians to visualise, but with a VR model, there is enhanced engagement, faster decision making, and the overall design and approval process is speeded up.
Robert Sanderson, deputy director of Capital Projects at the Trust, said: “Having a virtual reality model of our proposed
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