Phil Green, senior project engineer at independent building services company, Shepherd Engineering Services (SES), describes SES’s creation a new ‘state-of-the-art’, £4.5 million, high dependency unit (HDU) at The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough.
Completion of the 16-bed HDU, part of a wider South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust investment programme to remodel and enhance the hospital’s facilities, follows last September’s completion, also by SES, of the Endeavour Unit (HEJ – November 2011), a new oncology satellite building built as a key element of the Trust’s £30 million expansion and redevelopment of its Radiotherapy Unit at the Middlesbrough hospital.
The redevelopment of Ward 23 at The James Cook University Hospital, which had stood dormant for some time, into a highly serviced HDU, has been a complex process. It presented SES and the team, comprising architect P+HS; building contractor, Interserve Construction; building services contractor, SES, and mechanical and electrical design consultants, Jackson Coulson, with many challenges throughout the 40-week build programme, which commenced in July 2011. The new unit consists of two six-bed wards, and four isolation rooms.
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