Pre-wired systems prove their worth

 This important electrical wiring contract has already seen Durhambased Apex supply a £9 million bespoke, in-house designed, armoured wiring system for the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel as part of the Barts and The London NHS Trust’s PFIfunded redevelopment of its hospital and healthcare facilities across the capital. Following the success of the Royal London installation, Apex has won a further multi-million pound contract to supply its pre-wired wiring system for the second phase of the Trust’s programme – the redevelopment of St Bartholomew’s Hospital (Barts) in the City. The Royal London Hospital is being rebuilt to include London’s leading trauma and emergency care centre, the capital’s second largest children’s hospital, and one of Europe’s largest renal units, with London’s Air Ambulance operating from the top of the new building.

Pre-assembled

A pre-assembled and fully tested modular system has been specified instead of a more traditional conduit, trunking, and hard-wired system, eliminating the need for on-site electrical connections, and cutting the number of qualified electricians required to carry out the work. The system features pre-wired, factorytested pluggable distribution boards to supply lighting, and high and low-level power covering an area of 100,000 m2. Apex says the use of prefabricated connectors and preassembled cables provides a high performance, reliable, and flexible wiring solution, and has provided significant improvements over alternative systems, reducing on-site installation times by up to 70%. Undertaken by sub-contractors, the installation work at the Royal London was completed last summer, one year earlier, Apex maintains, than it would have taken with ‘other’ systems.