40SEVEN, the underground utility surveyor, has been working with consultants and contractors delivering project critical information for a number of hospital Trusts in the UK, in support of their PFI, PPP and P21 schemes.
The surveying services supplied to some of the largest PFI schemes seen in the healthcare sector to-date include utility location and mapping, manhole surveys and CCTV condition surveys of both internal and external areas. Once the data has been gathered and assimilated, 40SEVEN provides a very accurate plan that will aid future site management, reduce the risk of pipe and cable strikes during excavations and indicate the possible location of asbestos constructed pipes, as well as other buried risks. This enables the Trusts to meet the specific requirements laid down for ProCure21 (P21) schemes; to ensure, where physically possible, all “sites” are handed over as “clean” and all associated risks have been either removed or minimised.
The resulting information provides the project delivery team with an accurate “as-built” drawing for use from the early design stage, through the construction phases and if regularly and correctly updated, then as an aid for future utility asset managing.
Pete Bevils, managing director at 40SEVEN, said: “This is a pro-active approach to avoiding utility damage. Adopting non-invasive surveying techniques has a massive benefit to everyone and reduces the risk of injury to employees and inconvenience to the public. Information derived from our surveys can be critical to ensuring that the hospital’s services remain uninterrupted during the early works and construction stages and that all risks are minimised. By employing our services at an early stage, cascading the derived information through all relevant parties involved in the project and then updating our surveys with newly laid or changed services information, the hospital Trusts will be able to achieve absolute best value for money from the initial expenditure and in many cases the surveys quickly pay for themselves.”
An additional service that 40SEVEN is now able to offer includes online collaboration and webhosting of drawings. Pete Bevils continued: “Disruption to a hospital’s power or water supplies could be catastrophic. The beauty of our asset location and management system is that once the initial survey data has been gathered, plotted in CAD, and set up on a secure website, it is extremely easy to combine other associated utility detail into the programme such as images, topographical surveys and spreadsheets. The end result is a complete multi-faceted, multi-layered website that can be easily accessed by all parties, while providing accurate results.”
