Last spring, Gwent’s new £350 m Grange University Hospital near Cwmbran came out of the ground, delivered by a method of construction that its constructor, Laing O’Rourke, says will ‘drive innovation, value, quality, and consistency’.
It has been over 15 years in the making, but last spring, Gwent’s new £350 million Grange University Hospital near Cwmbran came out of the ground, delivered by a method of construction that its constructor, Laing O’Rourke, says will drive innovation, value, quality, and consistency, and meet the ambitions of the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board’s Clinical Futures Strategy. Laing O’Rourke’s project director, Mike Lewis, explains ‘why non-traditional methods are the most effective way to deliver healthcare of this scale’.
In 2008, engineering enterprise, Laing O’Rourke, was invited to join the ‘Designed for Life Framework’ for the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) for the construction of Wales’ most important and progressive hospital to date. Discussions between the health board and Welsh Government had been underway since 2003, when the project was first proposed for the site of the former Llanfrechfa Grange Hospital near Cwmbran, and had been earmarked for Welsh Government investment to cater for Gwent’s sickest patients in a new Grange University Hospital.
Our proposal was part of the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board Clinical Futures Strategy, which aimed to:
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