washrooms
Bathroom pods for Scottish hospital O
ffsite Solutions has been awarded the contract to supply bathroom pods for the new
£69m East Lothian Community Hospital. The manufacturer will provide 134
factory-built pods for the project. The units will be supplied without
floors to allow for continuous level flooring throughout the wards and avoiding the need for thresholds to make the bathrooms fully accessible. Designed to meet HTM
requirements, each of the large 2.6m x 2.2m pods will easily accommodate a patient and carer and will have a wider pre-prepared aperture for two door
leaves for easy access. The wash basins, toilets and showers
will be pre-installed in the Offsite Solutions’ factory in Somerset and the easy-to-clean, hygienic walls will be finished in white, with a feature wall in a range of colours. The scheme has a complex phased
construction to allow the continuation of clinical services in the existing hospital buildings on the site. As a result, the bathroom pods will be installed in batches throughout the next year. The22,000sq m hospital is being built by Morrison Construction, appointed by
Hub South East Scotland on behalf of NHS Lothian. When completed, it will increase
inpatient beds by around 60%. Paul Godwin, design manager at
Morrison Construction, said: “Having the bathrooms arrive on site as a finished product gives us the benefit of a significant programme saving and this use of offsite construction means we need less labour on site, which is safer and more efficient.”
www.offsitesolutions.com www.morrisonconstruction.co.uk
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