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Project: Heatherwood Hospital
Client: Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Overview: The design and build of a £98m state-of-the-art facility using the latest technology to deliver outstanding services to NHS and private patients across Berkshire, Hampshire, and Surrey.
Heatherwood Hospital puts a new emphasis on both patient and staff mental and physical wellbeing. This was Kier’s third project for Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT), transferring our project team from Wexham Park Hospital to maximise continuous improvement.
The 11,500 sq m building includes state of the art facilities within a contemporary, highly sustainable building in an enhanced woodland setting. Services include:
Six Ultra Clean Operating Theatres
48 Inpatient Beds
22 Day Case Cubicles
Two Endoscopy Scope Rooms
Diagnostic and Treatment Services
Outpatient Services
Imaging Facilities (MRI, CT, 2x XR)
Project: Kimmeridge Court
Client: Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Overview:A purpose built £8 million development to support local people with eating disorders in Poole.
Kimmeridge Court is a two-storey 4,800 sq ft building, constructed within the grounds of St Ann’s hospital in Poole, in an area surrounded by woodlands. The facility provides accommodation for 10 inpatient beds, as well as communal spaces and dedicated clinician rooms.
The project, which was procured through the P22 framework, has increased the NHS Dorset HealthCare University Foundation Trust’s capacity for specialist care from six to 10 beds and provided a private and therapeutic environment for the treatment of patients with eating disorders.The positioning of the building was carefully considered to preserve mature Category A trees. An irrigated root-protecting foundation design lifts the building above their roots, which enabled their retention, very close to the new building.
Project: Heartlands Treatment Centre
Client: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Overview:Delivering a brand-new centre to Heartlands Hospital, to bring world-class facilities and house a wide range of health services, caring for half-a-million patients each year.
The brand-new Heartlands Treatment Centre brings world-class facilities and a wide range of health services, caring for half-a-million patients each year.
Offering a ‘one-stop-shop’ for patients, the state-of-the-art centre brings a range of services under one roof, including diagnostics, day case procedures, endoscopy, audiology, outpatients, therapies, and imaging services. The new outpatient department features multi-language and disabled-friendly, self-check-in kiosks for patients, state-of-the-art technology and cutting-edge imaging equipment, whilst the building also contains a large light-filled atrium, wheelchair-friendly toilets on every level, changing places, baby changing, and patient/staff locker rooms.Kier delivered the facility whilst ensuring that the hospital’s core business continued to be delivered in a safe and pleasant environment, maintaining the blue light services and working in and around vulnerable patient groups.
Project: Royal Brompton Diagnostics CentreClient: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation TrustOverview: A new diagnostic centre which combines specialist diagnostic services in one space, in one of the world’s leading heart and lung hospitals.
The new centre combines specialist diagnostic services in one space, providing MRI, CT, ultrasounds, echocardiogram, interventional radiology, transoesophageal echocardiogram, and bronchoscopy scanning facilities, in one of the world’s leading heart and lung facilities.
To improve patient care whilst simultaneously increasing educational and research programs, the building structure plan consisted of a four-storey concrete framed building, and a steel frame to connect the new buildings to the adjacent wings. This allows patients and staff to move effortlessly between buildings and clinical departments via a conveniently secure route. The project team fostered positive relationships with the local community throughout, continuously engaging with local residents and involving them in the process. The site also mandated the use of re-useable pallets, reducing timber and achieving an 85% diversion of waste from landfill.
Project: Devizes Health Centre
Client: NHS Property Services
Overview:One of the first NHS net-zero integrated care hubs to be delivered in England, providing accommodation for primary care, community health, mental health, and other associated services in Wiltshire – all centred around the patient in a community setting.
Devizes Health Centre is of the first net-zero, NHS integrated care hubs to be delivered in England, providing accommodation for primary care, community health, mental health, and other associated services.
Replacing the existing services, Kier was appointed to provide a new flagship facility that combines four local GP practices under one roof. As part of the early design works, Kier explored how they could deliver a carbon-neutral building based on building orientation, form, envelope, and end-user operation; in preparation for the future, all internal partitions are independent of the structural columns, meaning their position can be adjusted with ease in as spatial requirements change. Devizes will be a benchmark for all future NHS construction projects, due to its use of environmentally friendly green technology.
Project: Mersey Care ‘Rowan View’ Medium Secure Unit (MSU)
Client: Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Overview:Providing medium secure mental health facilities in Liverpool, this 123 bed, mental illness and learning disabilities medium secure facility was procured through P21+.
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust offers specialist inpatient and community services that support mental health, learning disabilities, addictions, brain injuries, and physical health.
The Trust drives a commitment to ‘perfect care’ – safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. Following extensive dialogue with local commissioners and NHS England, the Trust agreed a transformational change to their model of care for learning disabilities; Kier has delivered a high-quality, centre of excellence regional Medium Secure Unit in Maghull. The new BREEAM Excellent facility comprises of eight wards, each providing a modern therapeutic model of care, offering an innovative design solution that provides a therapeutic and healing environment. This specifically aids recovery times, reducing the length of patient stays, and preparing them for life in the community.
Project: Wexham Park Hospital Emergency Assessment Centre
Overview: The design and build of a £36m emergency department and assessment centre for Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Wexham Park Hospital EAC (Emergency Assessment Centre) is a new build, four-storey project, bringing the hospital’s emergency department, ambulatory care, and assessment units together under one roof.
Procured through the P21+ framework, Kier was appointed by the Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) to redevelop the Wexham Park and Heatherwood Hospitals estate. Our second project was to redevelop the emergency care services at Wexham Park Hospital, following the successful completion of the Wexham Park Hospital Women's Services refurbishment and extension.
Handed over in Winter 2019, the project was completed ahead of schedule, using modern time-saving techniques. The programme was shortlisted for a national Gold Award by the Considerate Constructors Scheme.
Offsite and modern methods of construction were critical to the project, reducing both time and labour. Modular corridors and plant equipment were utilised, saving an estimated eight weeks from the project scope.
This project was one of the first in the UK to model the United States’ design for emergency departments, bringing together the emergency department, ambulatory care and assessment units under one roof.
Project: NHS Nightingale Hospital BristolClient: NHS EnglandOverview: Converting the University of West England conference centre into a temporary hospital in just 20 days, providing increased capacity for the NHS following the outbreak of COVID-19.
Procured through the P22 Framework, Kier was appointed to deliver the NHS Nightingale Hospital. Over 10,400m2 of flooring was laid - the equivalent size of nearly 40 tennis courts, 25 miles of data cables were installed - which equals the whole Jubilee London underground line and 5,656 double plug socks were fitted. The facilities included 300 intensive care beds, fitted with included oxygen facilities.
Following the outbreak of COVID-19, the NHS required temporary hospital settings, known as NHS Nightingale Hospitals, to be set up across England. The purpose of these temporary hospitals was to provide increased capacity for the NHS, should it be required. In the south west, the venue for the surge hospital was the conference centre at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol). In just 20 days, the space needed to be completely transformed and handed over to the NHS.
Throughout the duration of the project, works were carried out swiftly yet safely, in line with Public Health England’s guidance and in compliance with the Construction Leadership’s Site Operating Procedures.
Project: Taunton Diagnostics Centre
Client: Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
Overview:The re-purposing of a redundant building to transform it into a complex facility providing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT), Ultrasound and X-Ray facilities for NHS patients in Somerset.
Design, construction, and refurbishment of an existing fire control centre in Taunton, allowed the creation of a new diagnostics facility for the NHS – the first community diagnostics centre of its kind in England.
Kier has converted the ground floor of the existing building on Blackbrook Park Avenue into this new diagnostic centre, which includes a range of first-class facilities and equipment provided by Philips, including Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT), Ultrasound and X-Ray technology.Collaborating closely with the technology partner, Philips, was critical to ensuring the rooms were completed to the precise demands of the specialist installers specification, which enabled the early delivery of the MRI and CT scanners, followed by a seamless handover process ahead of the programme.
Project: NHS Golden Jubilee Surgical Centre, Clydebank
Client: NHS Golden Jubilee
Overview:When complete, this building will support the hospital to provide over 9,400 new outpatient consultations, more than 4,400 pre-operative assessments and over 13,900 other procedures.
Kier is utilising modern methods of construction (MMC) throughout the build of this surgical centre, including a hybrid pre-cast concrete frame and facade, cast in service support systems, and pre-manufactured riser and corridor service modules.
The MMC approach at Golden Jubilee consists of the use of a HybriDFMA frame system. The frame consists of precast and steel ‘kit of parts’ approach with 612 no. engineered structural components and clad using 177 no. brick façade panels complete with pre-installed windows and louvres C/W structural screeding works. The use of the HybriDFMA frame system has resulted in a three-month programme saving compared to a traditional in-situ methods and a very high-quality product.Kier’s use of MMC has significantly reduced the disruption to the local community through reductions in onsite operative hours, vehicle movements and site deliveries minimising noise, dust, and waste.
Project: Satellite Radiotherapy Unit (SRU), Nevill Hall Hospital
Client: Aneurin Bevan University Health Board & Gleeds
Overview:Delivery of a new Radiotherapy ‘Satellite' Centre at Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny. The centre will provide radiotherapy services closer to the homes of residents in Gwent and those living in the north and east of catchment area of Velindre Cancer Centre.
New two-storey BREEAM Excellent building designed to be low in embodied carbon and carbon-in-use, with possible Operational Carbon saving of circa 1900 tonnes of CO2 (approx. 35%) over a 60-year lifespan. The design is based on Passivhaus principals, with a direct link to the main hospital street.
This new facility will act as a satellite facility to the main cancer hospital at Whitchurch, Cardiff. This allows patients who are undergoing significant and distressing treatments to access this closer to home, reducing the stress and anxiety they may experience.The new facility will provide patient treatment and clinical space facilities, located on the ground floor with staff offices and other support facilities on the first floor. Also, construction of two linear accelerator bunkers for the focused treatment of cancer, using Megashield concrete block construction.The new building will have views to the Blorenge and the Brecon Beacons, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
