Health Sector News
Medical centre ‘marries security with tranquility’
The Queensway Medical Centre, on the site of a former ‘burnt out’ public house inWellingborough, in a ‘challenging’ residential area surrounded by roads and a low-rise shopping centre, ‘marries external security with internal tranquillity’, say its designers, maber architects. They said: “From the outside, the 250 m2
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two-storey building is a robust, traditional cavity wall construction, with Trespa rainscreen cladding on the first floor, yet it opens into a welcoming, double-height glazed atrium housing the entrance lobby
and waiting area. These look onto an internal courtyard, created because of the lack of scope for external landscaping.” The building, constructed by Stepnell,
houses a large GP practice and a pharmacy, 17 consulting rooms, a minor operation room, and staff facilities. The architects’ specialist interiors
team, maber iD, selected furniture, and worked with the client on branding, including signage. On maber’s advice, the site’s original owners, the ‘now defunct’ NHS PCT, acquired neighbouring land to
allow additional room for a car park, preventing any compromise on space for patients. Coincidentally, the desktop
archaeological study was undertaken by the team who discovered the remains of King Richard III in Leicester, where maber is working on a new visitor centre.
Security ensured at emergency care centre
Provider of electronic fire and security solutions, ADT Fire & Security, has been selected as security provider for NHS Grampian’s new Aberdeen Emergency Care Centre. ADT won the competitive tender with
a CEM AC2000 integrated access control, security management system (SMS), custom designed to secure the 400 doors throughout the premises. The Emergency Care Centre has
replaced 40 per cent of the beds at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI – an acute hospital), ‘combining all the services required to give emergency care under one roof’. “When selecting a security
management system, reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency, are all vital considerations”, explained Paul Paton, senior security officer, NHS Grampian. “ADT offered a customised solution which enabled us to import our existing 10,000+
staff card holders from our previous system directly into the new AC2000 system. This seamless transition saved both time and money, while future- proofing our system for the years ahead.” The AC2000 SE (Standard Edition)
system, designed by CEM Systems, was customised to enable seamless migration from the legacy system to the new AC2000 system; right down to the access cards. This meant no downtime during installation, and no additional expenditure on new staff cards. The system also integrated fully into the care centre’s other CCTV, intruder detection, and intelligent lift control systems.
Royal Free facility to conduct global immunology research
Multi-disciplinary construction consultancy, Edmond Shipway, recently completed its work role as cost manager on the £6 million Phase 1 development of the Institute of Immunity, Infection and Transplantation, a new research facility for University College London and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, located at Hampstead’s Royal Free Hospital.
A partnership between
University College London and the Royal Free, the Institute is the UK’s first global immunology research centre, and one of only five currently in existence worldwide. The Centre will bring together pioneering research and clinical trials in a purpose-built facility to give patients quicker access to the latest therapies for diseases including cancer, leukaemia, chronic infections including HIV and tuberculosis, autoimmune diseases such as diabetes, and ‘other rare conditions’, such as haemophilia. It will also undertake clinical trials. The Phase 1 works involved extensive refurbishment of the Royal Free’s second
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floor to create laboratories, clinical space, and a clinical trials unit. The development has enabled groups conducting research in immunology, infection, and transplantation, to be re- located directly alongside clinical services. Edmond Shipway added:
“The cost management role (the main contractor was ISG, and the architects, Ansell &
Bailey) involved ensuring that the new facility’s design and construction stayed within its demanding budgetary targets.” Phase II, valued at £47 m, is due for
completion in summer 2017, and would see the development of a standalone building adjacent to the Royal Free housing further treatment facilities, laboratories, and 200 leading researchers.
Courtesy of NHS Grampian
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