Electrical Contracting News (ECN) September 2016 | Page 24
PROJECT FOCUS
WRIGHTINGTON HOSPITAL
The hospital redevelopment is creating a vastly improved environment for both patients and staff.
to the new hospital extension. The
company also oversaw the delivery of the
design for the M&E works and provided
technical assistance to ensure the project
deliverables were met. Work began on
site in June 2014, and the new facilities
became fully operational recently.
Extensive experience
Although this was the first barn theatre
complex NG Bailey had been involved in,
it has extensive experience in healthcare,
including working alongside IHP on a
number of hospital developments in the
North West.
One of those IHP developments
was the £40m, 154 bed in-patients
unit at Blackpool, The Harbour. NG
Bailey delivered the M&E, public health,
information management and technology
services to The Harbour, part of the
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
modernisation programme.
Because of this previous experience,
NG Bailey offered to take responsibility
for the fit out works for the barn theatre at
Wrightington, which had been earmarked
for a turnkey company.
In terms of overall costs and delivery
timescales, this brought a number of
benefits to the project, but clearly this
had to be balanced with the added risk
to NG Bailey of ensuring the innovative
theatre complex met the expectations and
challenging commissioning criteria in line
with health technical memoranda (HTM)
guidance.
The key challenges throughout the
£5.4m M&E project included ensuring the
deliverables in terms of quality, the client
expectations and the timetable for bringing
the facility into operation were all met.
The single biggest challenge faced at
NG Bailey was ensuring the stringent air
quality standards required in a theatre
environment were complied with within
an ultra clean barn theatre, where there
needs to be scope for multiple operations
to be carried out simultaneously.
To help achieve this, engineers
installed an ultra clean air ceiling canopy,
which protects the room from airborne
bacteria by ensuring a constant supply of
fresh, filtered clean air into the theatre.
Two of the theatre bays have body
exhaust systems that remove bacteriacarrying particles emitted by the surgical
team, diverting it away into an adjacent
plant room.
The heating and ventilation system
is also designed to be flexible and
controllable, allowing temperatures
within different parts of the barn theatre
to be adjusted to meet the individual
needs of surgeons or patients. The
surgeons can use the theatre control
panel to access real time information on
the ventilation and heating systems, and
adjust accordingly.
The NG Bailey IT Services team
installed the data and telephone systems
and cabling, and all electrical equipment
was built by its off site manufacturing
division. Having the electrical equipment
built off site saved around four weeks on
the project.
The sinks were also pre-plumbed and
insulated at NG Bailey’s offsite facility in
West Yorkshire, while the panels for the
integrated plumbing systems (IPS) were
built off site by its partners at Inscape.
Other electrical work included CCTV;
bed head trunking; nurse call, fire alarm
and damper systems; access control
and LED surgical lighting. There is also
a picture archiving and communications
system (PACS) connected to a 42 inch
screen, which allows surgeons to scan,
store and view patient X-Rays within the
clinical environment.
‘Working closely with our supply chain
partners to ensure the correct product
selection in line with user requests also
helped to reduce the schedule.
‘Despite the significant challenges of the
construction programme, completing the
work around five weeks ahead of schedule
meant the building could be delivered to
the Trust in time to meet the high potential
winter demand.’
NG Baley had an on site team of
more than 40 people, supported by
subcontractors, and the total of 30,000
engineering hours were undertaken
without a single reported accident.
The hospital redevelopment is creating
a vastly improved environment for both
patients and staff, with more single room
accommodation, increased safety, improved
clinical practice an