Following the selection of Cambridge University Hospitals as the regional major trauma centre for the new East of England Trauma Network, off-site construction specialist, Yorkon, has helped to increase theatre capacity at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
Working with main contractor, ISG Jackson, and project architect, LSI Architects, Yorkon has delivered a new modular theatre block to help meet major trauma requirements. Manufactured off site, the extension has provided additional operating theatres to free up capacity for emergency care services. The complex part two-storey building is located on a raised steel platform to connect it to the third level of the existing theatre department, with the potential to add an additional floor. The double cantilever arrangement facilitates patient flows, and access to support facilities. Designed to have a floor response factor of 1, the theatres have a concrete floor throughout clinical areas. The building, also fitted out by Yorkon, accommodates two new theatres, preparation rooms, anaesthetic rooms, offices, scrub rooms, staff rooms, disposal hold, equipment store, and a second floor plant room.
