PROJECT
ULSTER HOSPITAL LAUNDRY
GANSON UK HAS DELIVERED A BRAND-NEW LAUNDRY ROOM AT THE ULSTER HOSPITAL TO HOUSE NOT ONLY MASSIVE MACHINERY BUT ALSO FACILITIES WITH IMPROVEMENTS OF EPIC PROPORTIONS TO THE STAFF… SUPERSIZED LOAD
B uilding contractor Ganson UK was chosen to modernise a part of the Ulster Hospital’s operation that, despite its massive proportions, normally remains behind the scenes: the laundry room. The briefing from the Northern Health and Social Care Trust included not only an extension and total revamp of the laundry installations in one of Belfast’s main hospitals, but also a new staff facility complex. The extension was built in front of an old storage room, and now the laundry has a total area of 1,750sqm, divided between the ground, the first floor and the mezzanine. The ground floor houses the so-called “dirty side”, where all the dirty
gowns and sheets come in to be washed and the “clean side”, which is reserved for the drying, ironing, folding and packing of clean linen. Everything that must be completely sterilised is stored in the self- explanatory “clean room”, plus there are gowning lobbies for donning and doffing. The mezzanine is a separate plant room located in the old building and houses the main water tank and air handling units (AHUs). The first floor is part of the new build and comprises a canteen, showers, toilets, offices, training rooms, linen-repair rooms.
Ganson UK, was impressed by the sheer scale not only of the laundry installations but also of the plant room and all the machinery required for this critical service at the Ulster. “The plant room is huge, a real maze of pipework with three large boilers,” he commented. “All the washing, drying, folding and packing is performed by machines, and the equipment is massive. The tunnel washer, for example, arrived on a 40- foot lorry.” The scale of the services performed would put any proud homemaker to shame. The tunnel washing machine has a capacity of 1,300kg per hour, while some barrier washers will happily take
MASSIVE SCALE Paddy O’Hart, Contracts Manager at
“Now we know we can accomplish and successfully deliver a project of this scale.”
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