The Christie, Macclesfield
Client: The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
The recently completed two-storey specialist facility is bringing leading cancer treatment services to the people of East Cheshire and the surrounding areas.
The new cancer care facilities include a CT suite, two Linear Accelerator bunkers, 16 bay chemotherapy suite and associated accommodation of the satellite Cancer Centre for our long term client, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust.
The facility brings together essential cancer services into one purpose-built centre for the local community. The facility provides access to specialist diagnostics, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, holistic support and information services, outpatient care, palliative care and a wider range of clinical trials, giving more patients better access to new services and treatments as they become available.
We handed the high quality facility over on time in spite of it being delivered through the height of the pandemic.
“This was an extremely challenging project. Not least because there were essentially three clients to please, being in the middle of a global pandemic and working in a hospital environment with patients more vulnerable than any other. What VINCI achieved was nothing short of a miracle.”
Elena Lee, Project Manager, The Christie Hospital
The Paterson Building
Client: The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
This £116M development for The Christie in Manchester is delivering state of the art laboratory and research facilities for the Trust and their partners, the University of Manchester and Cancer Research UK.
The scope includes offices and laboratories providing 26,000 sqm of distinct facilities for the hospital. The BREEAM Very Good building is set to be handed over in December 2022. The world class Paterson Building will help transform patient outcomes through integrated advances in cancer prevention, early detection and treatment.
The project provides a part seven and part 10 storey building plus a basement level to accommodate biomedical research laboratories, consultant workspace, collaboration spaces, and an ancillary café. External storage and servicing compound, cycle storage facility, external hard and soft landscaping, full service infrastructure, plant and equipment, complete the scope of works.
The complex ground solution on the constrained site includes basement construction under the water table.
Huddersfield Royal Infirmary Ward 18
Client: Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
This project at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary was designed and constructed during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic’s second wave, as a place to treat the rapidly rising numbers of coronavirus patients, and mitigate infection transmission risk on open wards. A full strip-out of the hospital’s existing Ward-18, and construction of 15 new individual en-suite bedrooms, reception, utility and staff areas, were created fast-track, in 80-days.
As speed of delivery was crucial, we began working on-site and progressing the design in parallel, adopting ‘just-in-time’ principles for all activities - an approach only possible thanks to the true spirit of cooperation established between all team members.
Working around-the-clock, we created a safe, high-quality design, overcoming major challenges presented by the escalating Covid-19 situation, existing building constraints - including the ward’s central location within the multi-level building, whilst respecting hospital users and ongoing operations.
The team were recognised for their efforts, being presented with awards in three categories - Project Team, Project Design and Clinician’s Choice at the prestigious 2021 Building Better Healthcare Awards.
Integrated Front Door and Urgent Treatment Centre - Great Western Hospital Swindon
Client: Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Enabling works are underway for the new Integrated Front Door (IFD) project at Great Western Hospital in Swindon with piling to commence in March 2023.
A new Emergency Department will be constructed as well as the reconfiguration of the existing Children’s Emergency Unit. This is in response to the rising demand for Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) services and increasing capacity pressures on the trust’s Front Door services. The scheme will also provide a new Same Day Emergency Care and Joint Initial Assessment Unit. This will deliver a significant uplift in ‘same day’ emergency care and for the first time formally integrating, medical and surgical care in this UEC service.
The 2442m2 facility is primarily new build and will link the current Emergency department footprint. The new Urgent Treatment Centre, completed by IHP in 2022, will be connected via a new corridor.
The project has recently been awarded the ‘best non-residential new build’ award in the Swindon Building Control local awards 2023.
Urgent Treatment Centre
The UTC is a single storey building (plus roof plantrooms) with a footprint of over 1047.12m2 and was constructed between April 2021 and March 2022.
Whilst primarily new-build it will link up with the existing West entrance forming a continuation of the internal corridor linking the new UTC with the current Emergency department.
Associated external infrastructure works were required to realign footpaths, parking provisions for PTS (Patient Transport Services) and the widening the entrance of the Emergency department public car park bell mouth.
Chase Farm Hospital
Client: Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (RFL) Capital & Estates
Chase Farm Hospital’s redevelopment was achieved at an unprecedented speed for a scheme this complex and large within the NHS.
Typically, schemes like this take over 10 years to deliver. Delivering a scheme with a construction value of £130m+ in less than 4 years is unprecedented. It demonstrates what is possible with strong leadership and clear direction, true collaborative working across disciplines and more objective approaches to risk management.
The scheme was delivered on time and within budget.
The Duke of York opened the new Chase Farm Hospital (CFH) on 23 May 2019. The hospital is one of the most digitally advanced hospitals in the country and opened to patients last year.
The Duke of York said: "It is a huge pleasure to be here today, particularly as I am Patron of the Royal Free London, and I am amazed at the speed at which this new hospital has been built. Hospitals are about increasing the likelihood of better patient outcomes and patient healthcare, and today I have been around this new hospital, met some of your staff, and it is clear that that intent is being delivered.”
Preston Hospital Critical Care Unit
Client: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
This £10m Design and construction project was delivered in four interconnected phases:
Phase 1 for the New Build 966m2 extension to CCU). Phase 2 to Refurbish of the 520m2 Ophthalmology Ward, Phase 3 to remodel 608m2 of further CCU space and Phase 4 for the refurbishment of 398m2 ward space and staff welfare areas.
The unit has 34 critical care beds and features enhanced natural light and patient facilities, with a focus on rehabilitation. Visitor facilities include kitchen, lockers and a room for freshening up. Staff facilities are being upgraded, with a clinical skills room and quiet space to encourage mindfulness in the workplace.
Interconnectivity and complexities of the phasing required detailed weekly user interface meetings with Estates team and clinical stakeholders. We notify the teams of advanced works on a weekly basis, highlighting any potential impact on day-to-day activities of the hospital.
“I would like you to know how much I appreciate all the hard work that your team have put into the critical care surge expansion. I know it’s been a massive task with constantly changing requests. We could not have done this without you and I really appreciate it.“
Dr Daniel Cottle, Clinical Director – Critical Care
Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital Extension
Client: East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
This project was part of a scheme of works to provide a new Acute Medical Unit block as an extension with link connections to the Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital. The 2,000m2 unit comprises two stories with first floor enclosed link bridges. The first floor includes 30 AMU beds (10 high dependency), associated clinical facilities, reception, staff bases, offices, pharmacy and utility spaces. The ground floor includes a lobby, plantroom, porter’s accommodation, training suite and storage areas.
The extension provides a floor of AMU provision with enhanced foundations and superstructure to allow two additional levels as futureproofing for future expansion. The development increased capacity within the emergency department whilst relieving pressure on the overstretched unit by providing urgent medical assessment facilities.
Our activities meant working adjacent to blue-light services, for which we engaged with NW Air Ambulance and Air Traffic Control to develop construction logistics plans and crane proposals to ensure a fully agreed operating approach. The development was adjacent to the hospital’s main ambulance blue-light route requiring careful and considered traffic management proposals for vehicles and deliveries to ensure our works do not impede emergency vehicles.
“Yet again IHP have supported the Trust to provide a high-class patient focused facility that will improve the experience and care of our patients. IHP have delivered on their promises and exceeded the Trusts expectation to ensure the project was not impacted by COVID-19".
Clare Boyd, ELHT Project Manager
Chesterfield Royal Hospital
Client: Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
We have been working with Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as its construction partner since 2012 and have established a strong, trusted working relationship based on mutual respect and understanding and a real commitment to open, honest communication.
During the time we’ve worked with Trust, we’ve maintained a presence on-site and have successfully delivered a broad range of refurbishment, upgrades, remodelling and new build extension projects, across its hospital campus, including:
- A new build operating theatre with ultra clean ventilation system (UCV) and upgraded supporting infrastructure
- Twelve refurbished operating theatres (including new UCV canopies to the four laminar flow theatres) and associated equipment storage facilities and staff rest room areas
- A fully refurbished and extended Endoscopy Department
- Improvements to the existing Emergency Department to create a dedicated area for the hospital’s GP streaming service providing triage to patients presenting at Accident and Emergency
- A new build extension to expand the Accident and Emergency facilities
- A remodelled and extended Imaging Department in order to accommodate a new MRI scanner suite
- An extended Medical Records department to enable storage of an additional one million patient records
- A two-storey purpose-built facility connected to the hospital’s existing Emergency Department to form a new Urgent and Emergency Care Department.
We continue to work in close collaboration with the Trust, to support them in delivering further planned works across the hospital estate.
“VINCI have delivered a programme of complex schemes within highly serviced, operational clinical environments, each of which have been delivered within the agreed timeframe, cost parameters and to the required quality. Delivering works within such environments presents numerous challenges, requiring high levels of flexibility and constant communication, such has been the quality of VINCI’s performance that the works have not impeded upon the operation of the hospital in any way, such an outcome is deemed to be outstanding given the nature of the works completed.
There has been the development of a true partnership working approach that continues to deliver great results.”
CHRIS TANN - OPERATIONS DIRECTOR, DSFS, CHESTERFIELD ROYAL HOSPITAL
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NGS Macmillan Unit
A new build 2200m² cancer care facility for Chesterfield NHS Foundation Trust and MacMillan Cancer Care. The building is arranged over two storeys with roof level plant rooms. The building is situated on the Chesterfield Royal Infirmary site and provides palliative care to patients across the North Derbyshire region.
The building was awarded the prestigious RIBA East Midlands Building of the Year at the 2018 awards ceremony. The project won Project Architect of the Year 2018 for the Manser Practice, and the Trust secured the East Midlands Client of the Year 2018 award.
“Creates a building of great elegance and reinforces the sense of quality. The contrast of the white Corian panels with the carefully selected planting scheme is a truly uplifting place to be, for patients, visitors and staff alike.
The project team have steered this building at every turn through a process of careful reflection to ensure the best possible outcomes for patient experience and well-being.”
RIBA JUDGES
QEH Specialist Hospital Facility HCA Birmingham
Client: Prime Infrastructure Management Services
A new 14,728sqm £100m specialist hospital facility in Birmingham, which will provide acute care to private patients, as well as extra capacity and access to specialist facilities for NHS patients.
The 138-bed specialist hospital facility is being built on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham campus, for a partnership between HCA Healthcare UK (HCA UK) and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust Foundation Trust (UHB).
The hospital will include a radiotherapy unit, and state-of-the-art operating theatres. It will be equipped with the latest technology to provide some of the most complex surgical and medical procedures and treatments across cancer, cardiology, neurology, hepatobiliary, urology, orthopaedics and stem cell transplantation.
Burnley Hospital
Client: East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Burnley Hospital was a design and build project of new wards to house Ophthalmology, Maxillofacial, General Outpatients and Health Records facilities, relocation and construction of a new build link corridor to connect the live theatres to the wards.
To enable the commencement of the new Ophthalmology unit it meant that all refurbishment work had to be designed, costed and constructed within a very tight time scale. First, winter beds had to be completed by the end of September 2016, allowing for a 16-week design, cost and construct period. The new unit opened on time and to budget, which will treat both Medical and Surgical patients.
We involved the community as much as possible with site visits and work placements.
“We had a very small time frame in which to become fully operational and spent many weeks working in a building site type environment alongside an army of contractors both internal and external. We are the first unit of this kind within the UK, offering a variety of treatments and procedures to both medical and surgical patients, and working to prevent acute admissions, of this we are proud. We continue to receive fantastic feedback from both patients and clinicians.
VICTORIA MCLOUGHLIN, SENIOR SISTER
Newham University Hospital ICU Rainbow Ward, London
Client: Barts Health NHS Trust
The Rainbow Ward project saw the refurbishment of an existing Paediatric ward on the ground floor of Newham Hospital. It is circa 1,000m2 along with circa 400m2 of new build which will has been constructed within an existing courtyard to the side of the rainbow ward. The scheme has been funded by charitable donations and is an exemplar project.
Junction 17 Cams Unit
Client: Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
The care centre provides light and calming environments and specialises in the assessment and treatment of teenagers with a range of issues including anxiety, depression, self-harm, eating disorders and psychosis. The 20-bed unit offers both inpatient treatment and support via a day service.
The new build works encompassed steel frame construction, RC retaining structure and some OSM elements (such as bathroom pods) with an approximate total Gross Internal Floor Area of 2587m2.
St Catherine's
Client: Wirral Hospital PCT & Prime
We have designed and built a new four-storey, 10,000m2 Community Hospital in Birkenhead comprising women’s health, physiotherapy, mental healthcare, harm reduction, podiatry, audiology, X-ray and two community based GP practices.
The new facility allows the Trust to deliver faster consultations and reduce admissions to acute hospitals and provide outpatient services.
The new build development has been designed from concept to attain a BREEAM Excellent rating. The scheme won the Partnerships Bulletin Award for Best Healthcare Project 2011 in recognition of excellence in procurement and delivery.
Bromsgrove Medical Surgeries/Pharmacies
Client: Bromsgrove Healthcare Innovations Ltd
Delivering the very best facility of its kind. This purpose built Medical Centre occupied by two local doctor surgeries with facilities for minor operations. Our monthly meetings with the GPs, dentists, physio, nursery and pharmacy helped manage expectations and coordinate end user requirements into the design.
The Harbour
Client: Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust
Award Winning Mental Health Unit
A new 154 bed low security mental health inpatient unit, The Harbour development is part of the Trust’s commitment to modernise inpatient services and improve the quality of care it delivers. The new facility caters for dementia, advanced care, psychological intensive care units and adult functional wards.
The building is positioned on a green field site that required a cut/fill ground modelling solution to take place prior to the main construction activity. The building is mainly single storey, steel frame, founded on concrete pad foundations.
The external envelope has a number of different treatments such as render, curtain walling and brickwork. All bedrooms have en-suite facilities and internal design is robust with anti-ligature taken into account.
This is our fourth contract award with Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Furness General Hospital New Maternity Unit
Client: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
Major extension to the existing hospital to provide a new maternity unit, delivered under the P21+ Framework. All works were undertaken in a live and working hospital environment adjacent to working wards.
The unit is split over two floors and includes 14 ensuite birthing rooms, two dedicated theatres, a special four cot baby care unit, two transitional care beds, maternity assessment and bereavement suite.
"Being a dad to two young lads, it was amazing to see how the building has improved. I'm sure the midwives, doctors and staff will appreciate the facilities.
Thanks to you for taking the time out of a busy schedule to accommodate us."
Darran Curtis, Teacher at Furness College
Manchester NHS Nightingale Hospital North West
Client: Central Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
We converted the Manchester Central Convention Complex, formerly G-MEX, into a temporary hospital for COVID-19 patients using a 24-7 shift pattern. The 750-bed hospital was built from scratch in the Grade-II listed building in less than two weeks.
The creation of the hospital, which covers 17,000m2, has been an excellent example of collaboration across all construction disciplines, with local government, the military, the NHS and our supply chain. It was officially opened on 17 April 2020 by the Health Secretary Matt Hancock and the Duchess of Cornwall.
The vital facility releases crucial critical care beds in existing hospitals and is staffed by consultants, junior doctors, nurses, healthcare support workers, physiotherapists, pharmacists, occupational therapists, social workers, and a huge range of non-clinical support workers and administrators.
“It has been incredibly humbling to see all the hard work that has gone into building a hospital out of nothing and in such a short period of time. No matter what your role has been, without you, this wouldn’t have been possible. Teams have worked day and night, in a challenging environment to achieve this and you should be very proud of your contribution.”
Professor Michael McCourt, Chief Executive of the Nightingale
Rainbow Hospitals Deeside (Ysbyty Enfys Glannau Dyfrdwy) and Bangor
Client: Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB)
We transformed Deeside Leisure Centre into a field hospital, providing additional beds to help meet demand during the pandemic. It was handed over to Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board in under three weeks.
A four-bay squash court block was converted into a physio rehabilitation with storage area and a former creche into a six-bed palliative care ward. The previous function room became a fully furnished administration office with new electrical and data provision. Each ward has its own pharmacy, toilets and shower blocks, clean and dirty utility rooms and numerous ancillary stores for linen and medical equipment. The facility also provided the infrastructure for oxygen and specialist medical gases to all beds and wards.
“I was pleasantly surprised when the Health Board made the call to ask us to help deliver Deeside and Bangor schemes. We established a collaborative working environment with the Health Board staff, users, local building control and their advisors very quickly and we are delighted to have transformed these projects into hospitals in less than three weeks!”
John Roberts, VINCI Regional Managing Director
Rainbow Hospital Bangor - Ysbyty Enfys Bangor
The 223-bed field hospital used modular construction techniques to convert Bangor University’s Sports Centre into a fully functioning coronavirus hospital in just 16 days.
The new facility has converted four squash courts, two sports halls, a gymnastics hall, a gym floor area and one meeting room into hospital wards to care for patients recovering from COVID-19. 16 external modular buildings were installed to provide additional functionality including a kitchen, ambulance decontamination unit, mortuary, toilets, clean and dirty utility areas. The modular facilities are accessed through a clinical hospital corridor that was constructed to connect the existing structure to the modular village.
“Over recent weeks, the NHS has been tested like never before. It is testament to the commitment and teamwork shown by partners like you that we have managed as well as we have. It has not been easy and we would like to thank you and pay tribute to everyone who has worked so hard to support the North Wales response to COVID-19.
“It has truly been a herculean effort from all involved. Much work has gone into planning and developing new ways of working during the pandemic - including the rapid establishment of three temporary hospitals - so that we continue to provide key services for patients that need them. “We have never been more proud of the excellent partnership work happening right across the region. A huge well done and heartfelt thank you to you and your team and company for your involvement, professionalism and commitment during this time.”
Simon Dean, Interim Chief Executive & Mark Polin, Chairman, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board