Rehau has demonstrated its strength in the public sector with a contract to install both underfloor heating and cable management systems in the Diagnostic and Treatment Centre at Manchester’s new Withington Community Hospital.
Underfloor systems satisfy P21 hospital demand
The £20 m hospital, which opened recently, was built under the terms of ProCure21 by principal supply chain partner Interserve. It is the first of its kind in the north west which treats only outpatients and where the emphasis in all the services provided is on keeping people well and not just treating them when they are ill.
In the Diagnostic and Treatment Centre, underfloor heating has been installed throughout the entrance and main link corridor where consultant Arup felt it was important to keep the walls free from visible heat emitters and where the emphasis was on efficiency and maintaining comfort levels.
In also specifying the cable management system, AMEC, the international project management and services company appointed by Interserve to carry out the M&E installation, chose 1,000 m of Rehau’s Profila Data trunking for installation throughout the centre at dado height. Profila Data is one of the few cable management systems on the market which can accommodate the Cat 6 cabling used on the project at dado level.
