ISG’s Engineering Services business discusses the recent extension to Spire St Anthony’s Hospital in Cheam, and how BIM was used to help plan the most heavily serviced areas during construction.
Originally founded in 1904 by the Daughters of the Cross, a Roman Catholic order of nuns, Spire St Anthony’s Hospital in Cheam, Sutton, has a rich history as a community hospital. Located first in the house that stood on the site when it was purchased by the Daughters of the Cross, it had moved into a new purpose-built hospital by 1914, where it was operated with a pay-by-your-means policy.
After the NHS was established, patient care became largely NHS funded but, when St Anthony’s lost its NHS contract in 1970, neither the hospital’s dedication to patient care nor its commitment to investing in the facilities wavered. A new hospital building was constructed in the early 1970s designed around patientcentred care principles, and a hospice – St Raphael’s – was opened in the grounds in 1987.
The Daughters of the Cross sold the hospital to private healthcare provider, Spire Healthcare, in 2014, and the company has since taken on the mantle of investing in the facilities to deliver the highest levels of patient care and medical innovation. The latest development at St Anthony’s has seen ISG deliver a £14 million project to extend the specialist facilities with a three-storey concreteframed extension
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