NEW CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, DUBLIN

Cable Management solutions at new children’s hospital.

voestalpine Metsec’s Cable Management Division has manufactured and supplied more than £1million worth of cable management solutions for the new children’s hospital in Dublin, Ireland’s largest and most significant capital investment in healthcare undertaken by the state.

Commenced in 2017 and due for completion in 2025, the hospital is housed in a striking oval-shaped building designed by architects BDP in association with O’Connell Mahon.

Main contractors for the project are BAM Building.

The hospital occupies a 12-acre site (equivalent to six football pitches) on the St James’s Hospital campus in the republic’s capital city and will provide some 160,000 m2 of floor space over eleven floors, eight above ground and three below ground.

When complete, the new hospital will boast more than 6,000 rooms, including 380 individual, en-suite inpatient bedrooms, each with a bed for a parent/guardian, 93 day beds, 53 family accommodation units, 22 operating theatres and procedure rooms and two paediatric outpatient and urgent care centres.

Following a detailed and exacting tender process, Mercury Engineering was awarded the 157 million euro contract to supply and install electrical services for the project to a design provided by Arup. Their scope of work included supply, install & commissioning of all medium and low voltage systems, data, and fibre installation, low voltage generators & property management system, isolated and uninterruptible power supply systems, fire alarm detection system, lightning protection, lighting and small power electrical installation, lighting control, gas suppression systems, medical gas wiring, smoke damper wiring & building management system wiring packages.