The £28m Shropshire Women and Children’s Centre at the Princess Royal Hospital is a two storey, 2,851 square metre new build facility for the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust; the main provider of acute hospital services for the Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin, and mid-Wales regions.
The centre caters to 135 inpatients comprising of children’s inpatients; children’s oncology and haematology; gynaecology inpatients; emergencies; procedures and Early Pregnancy Assessment Service (EPAS). The project also included a refurbishment of part of the adjoining existing building.
Our teams provided engineering services including civil, structural, and geo-environmental, to Balfour Beatty under the ProCure21+ framework. Our teams' involvement also included: Outline Business Case (OBC), building services design up to full business case and trust professional advisor. The structural team delivered services from OBC through to completion.
Structural solution
The centre of the building comprises of a steel frame with a composite metal deck and concrete slabs. One of the key challenges included dealing with the requirements for rigid and inflexible floor plates in sensitive areas such as the operating theatres.
Significant drainage diversion was required due to an existing sewer which went through the new footprint of the new building. Enabling works were undertaken for the creation of a 300 space car park in order to relocate cars from the existing space. The project was undertaken in a live hospital environment and included works on the existing helipad which was relocated.
Building services solution
A new High Voltage (HV) substation and generator were included to address some of the weak infrastructure. Heat delivery was linked to the district heating system and modifications were made to the existing Combined Heat and Power (CHP) unit. A new exchanger was incorporated to cover a distance of 200 metres from the energy centre to the new build.
Building Information Modelling (BIM)
This was a ProCure21+ exemplar BIM project, and one which the Government was interested in monitoring. Capita and the design team conducted presentations to the Department of Health to demonstrate how the project was approached using BIM with results including zero clashes.
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Across the UK, our clients rely on us every day to de-risk, simplify, and un-complicate things. How? With the right team and the right solution – on time, and on budget.
Working with public and private sector organisations, we provide specialist project and cost management, engineering and design, health and safety, and environmental solutions. We do things differently, specialising in infrastructure – the physical networks which keep the country moving, as well as the social infrastructure which creates communities people want to be a part of – and in building solutions, from architectural innovation to sustainable and technologically advanced design and delivery.
