A new mortuary and bereavement facility at one of North Wales’s largest acute hospitals, the Ysbyty Glan Clwyd near Rhyl, formed from 16 steel-framed modules that were manufactured off site, and subsequently craned into position to greatly speed project completion, was delivered ‘well below original cost budget, four weeks ahead of schedule’, by turnkey construction specialist, MTX Contracts.
As HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports, this is MTX’s second substantial project in the past two years at Glan Clwyd, reporting to the principal contractor on a major redevelopment programme currently ongoing at the hospital, Laing O’Rourke.
Along with the earlier project – which involved the turnkey fit-out of five new operating theatres – the new Mortuary and Bereavement Centre is a further part of a 90-phase, £89.9 million Welsh Assembly, Design for Life, Building for Wales Framework-funded redevelopment programme at the hospital. The scheme’s primary objective is the removal of large quantities of dilapidated asbestos fire protection material, in phases, from areas of the 1970s-built buildings, by Principal Supply Chain partner, Laing O’Rourke. The resulting cleared areas will then provide the client organisation, the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, with the opportunity to remodel the hospital’s existing outdated clinical and non-clinical facilities. Located on a former greenfield site close to a new Pathology Department building on the north of the Glan Clwyd site (which is itself a further phase of the overall hospital development scheme, and was completed in July this year by Laing O’Rourke), the new Mortuary and Bereavement Centre was handed over to the client Health Board nearly a month ahead of schedule, last December. An attractive-looking building, with an uplifting exterior design, the mortuary is externally finished with bespoke coloured spandrel panels and a Kingspan microribbed cladding system. At roof level, a louvred screen wall runs along part of the roofline, with a matching Kingspan parapet that effectively conceals the external rooftop plant area and solar PV panels that supply some of the building’s substantial energy requirements, without screening them off completely, helping to attenuate noise. The overall ‘aesthetics’ provide a pleasing, clinical, modern look, while remaining sympathetic with the building’s purpose.
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