PROJECT
PROJECTNAME NIGHTINGALEFACILITY,WHITEABBEYHOSPITAL
Client: CPD Main Contractor: Dowds Group Architect: TODDS Architects Construction Manager: Nick McKee Build Contracts Manager: Alistair Nevin Mechanical Manager: Nigel Connolly M&E engineer: Jason Fisher, Beattie Flannigan PROJECTTEAM...
to collaborate with the design team. “We had already cemented good relationships with the engineers and architects on the design team which facilitated a very smooth process.” The new Nightingale will generally cater for low acuity/step-down patients who are well enough to leave an acute hospital but who would benefit from a period of intensive rehabilitation. However, the scheme has been designed and delivered
said Nick, “which meant we had to work around certain M&E systems such as heating as it was being used in the ward below. We also had to keep all our site staff separate from the ward staff and follow Covid-19 restrictions strictly to minimise any possibility that we could bring Covid into the hospital.” Commenting on the
successful completion of the Nightingale project Nick said, “It’s a shame that this type of project was necessary but we are delighted that we delivered it to the people of Northern Ireland when they needed it and we have been commended by CPD for our performance on the project. “We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to everyone involved; our
“Wewould like to extendour
sincere gratitude to everyone involved; our Construction andBuilding Services teams, suppliers and subcontractorswho went above and beyond.”
to provide some flexibility to step-up care when and if required. In the immediate term, it will be managed as a regional resource to support the response to Covid-19, but in choosing to remodel an existing hospital facility it also provides a valuable longer-term asset for the provision of healthcare in the region.
Construction and Building Services teams, suppliers and subcontractors who went above and beyond so that this vital project was completed ahead of schedule and to its exceptionally high standard.”
As well as the tight time schedule, Dowds faced further challenges thrown up by working on a hospital site. “We were working above a live ward,”
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