Manchester fit out scheme

The Centre will provide combined decontamination and sterilisation services for three NHS Trusts and one NHS Foundation Trust in the locality – University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Christie Hospital NHS Trust and Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust. Operated by Synergy Healthcare, the UK’s largest provider of decontamination and sterilisation services for hospitals and PCTs, the service provides for the collection of surgical instruments from five hospitals to its site in Wythenshawe. The equipment is then washed, checked, packed, sterilised, and delivered back to the hospitals. The 18,000 ft2 building selected for the Super Centre is being converted by Welconstruct over the next nine months.

Kevin Hill, sector manager at Welconstruct, said: “Our scope of work involves the construction of operational areas, cleanrooms and mezzanine floors, as well as the installation of major plant and process equipment to provide this service.

“There is a heavy bias to utilities – bringing in new electrical, water and gas connections into the building, as well as providing all the M&E works to operate the equipment.”

Geoff Andrews, project director for Synergy Healthcare said: “We selected Welconstruct after a competitive tendering exercise. We are pleased to continue our long standing relationship with Welconstruct and look forward to the handover of a state-of-the-art facility later in the year.”