PROJECT
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND INNOVATION CENTRE, NEWTOWNARDS HOSPITAL
QUALITY FINISH BY WILLIAM ROGERS CONSTRUCTION LTD TIES IN OLD AND NEW BUILD… HEALTH TRUST TRAINING HUB
W illiam Rogers Construction handed over the Quality Improvement and Innovation Centre in December 2022 – a £1.6m project to extend and refurbish the health facility based at Newtownards Hospital for the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust. The existing building, known as the McWhinney Memorial Hall, was originally used to host social dances for hospital nurses during WW2, but now houses the Trust’s training hub for face-to-face and virtual seminars, meetings and conferences. William Rogers provided a refurbished main hall for seminars, two meeting rooms,
two conference rooms and a kitchen space to be fitted out by the client at a later date. Major packages included installation of the ventilation, air handling and heat recovery units along with AV and video conferencing systems. Removal of existing trees to the rear of the building presented a challenge to the project as it required bat and bird surveys. “A total of three nightly bat surveys were conducted, which required substantial co- ordination of sub-contractors in order to keep the programme on track,” explained Jordan Mitchell, Contracts Manager for William Rogers Construction. Phase one involved partial demolition
of the existing building; full strip-out and refurb of the remaining hall section; the roof removal, existing steel truss refelted and tiled while the floor was replaced with a new Junckers timber floor. Four new Velux windows were installed along with new windows to the existing external façade. The plant room was stripped out and upgraded with a new heating system installed. A void was created above the existing stage and two extra rooms were built. Foundations to the new build section (phase two) were put in place, walls built up and the roof put on. Work was paused while foundations, external walls and roof were built for phase three of the build – a
“This was a significant project for the team, completed to a high level of finish.”
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