One of Europe’s biggest and busiest paediatric hospitals, Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, has chosen recycled and refurbished modular buildings for three new facilities.
The three contracts, worth over £1.5 million, have each been completed on time and on budget by Foremans Relocatable Building Systems, reportedly the UK’s largest pre-owned modular building supplier. Working closely with main contractor G&J Seddon, Foremans has provided an office building for the hospital’s surgical division. The modular approach enabled the development to be sited on a steel gantry above a traditionally-built administration block, so that the Trust could expand the office accommodation despite site constraints. Foremans’ latest project is a threestorey, 24-module multi-purpose building, which provides a new main entrance for the busiest outpatients department, public facilities, a clinical area, and administrative offices. In just four months from receipt of order, Foremans also completed a two-storey facility for the project team managing a £175 million redevelopment of the hospital.
