Critical power infrastructure for flagship Welsh hospital

Electrical safety and clinical care equipment specialist, Bender UK, has supplied critical power infrastructure valued at over £2 million to The Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran, which is due to open this month, and is one of the highest-profile new healthcare facilities ever built in Wales. Gareth Brunton, the company’s managing director, reports.

The Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran is the biggest single investment in healthcare infrastructure ever undertaken in Wales. From its inception the £350 million project was planned for rapid delivery, with the aim of using offsite manufacturing with MMC – Modern Methods of Construction – and encouraging and facilitating close collaboration between all the parties involved. It was also the biggest ever single healthcare contract for electrical safety and clinical care equipment specialist, Bender UK. Worth more than £2 million, the contract awarded by Crown House Technologies required delivery of the complex critical power infrastructure, and the supply, installation, and commissioning, of equipment for operating theatres and patient care bays. This involved equipping 11 operating theatres and two maternity delivery theatres with Merivaara Q-Flow LED surgical lights incorporating HD cameras, and hygienic surgeons’ touchscreen theatre control panels. Bender UK has also supplied, installed, and commissioned, 115 clinical pendants delivering medical gases, resilient electrical supplies, and data connections, and almost 200 LED minor examination lamps. The supply and commissioning of the pendants, lights, and theatre control panels meant that Bender was involved in liaising with medical gas suppliers, the data handling within the hospital, and the fit-out team for the theatres and ward areas, with the pendants and lights all suspended from the ceiling fittings on multi-positional arms.

Set to open ahead of schedule