Endoscopy unit takes shape on ‘challenging’ site

The facility’s construction above an existing former gymnasium and physiotherapy unit, in a tight location ‘sandwiched’ between the hospital’s renal dialysis and neuroscience buildings, has not, however, been without its challenges, as HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, discovered from the construction team behind it.

To find out more about what the team dub a ‘pretty challenging and complex’ construction project, and why the new endoscopy facility was needed, I met up at York Hospital with one of the York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s Capital Projects managers, James Hayward, and a number of other senior representatives from the construction team. The latter included Chris Bennett, senior project manager, and Adam Knowles, project manager, from main contractor, Kier, and Steve Jenkins, project manager, and Tracey Ensbey, area manager, at project managers on the scheme, Turner & Townsend. The architects are IBI.

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides a comprehensive range of acute hospital and specialist healthcare services for approximately 800,000 people living in and around York, North and North East Yorkshire, and Ryedale. The Trust manages eight hospital sites, and around 9,000 staff. Its two main acute hospitals are the 700-bedded York Hospital and the 350-bedded Scarborough Hospital.