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Grange University Hospital
ROCKWOOL Ltd
The Grange University Hospital based in Cwmbran, Wales was originally known as the Specialist Critical Care Centre, is a newly built modern and compliant healthcare institution.
Healthcare | The Strand Medical Centre
Venesta Washroom Systems Ltd
To make sanitation convenient for the busy doctors and nurses, our conveniently sized, pre-plumbed recessed and boxed-out units, from our Vepps healthcare range were placed in all consultation rooms.
“The move into the new building was the biggest event in the Doctors’ Practice for a generation. The selection of Vepps units in the consulting and treatment rooms was an important part of delivering a modern Primary Care Centre, with modern, compliant, spacious, bright and colourful rooms, fit for delivering Primary Care Services for the next generation and beyond.”
- David Golland, Project Manager for Strand Medical Centre, Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
Premium Retirement Home, Stirling - Rutland TS.9205
Rutland
A higher quality of assisted livingProviding a higher standard of care for elderly residents, this purpose-built care home in Stirling, Scotland, has been designed to accomodate 65 residents in a relaxed, luxurious setting. Every aspect of the design was focused on avoiding an ‘institutional’ feel that might be regarded as typical of care environments, and instead achieve a desirable place to live with tasteful design features and creature comforts.We were delighted that Rutland closers were selected for the building’s fire-rated doors. One of the selected finishes, Antique Brass, is often chosen from our wide range, as it has proven popular in luxury care homes for its premium aesthetic, and the more homely feel that it provides.Life safety in fine formOur underlying purpose is to enhance life safety at every fire door. But we always say that maintaining life safety doesn’t have to diminish the aesthetic of an environment. Our tried, tested and certified door closer models are available in the widest range of finishes, making it perfectly possible to protect lives and enhance quality of life.65 - Luxuriously-appointed roomsFD30/60 - Fire-rated doors2x Premium closer models specified in two designer finishesTS.9205: Key features+ 15 finishes in stock+ Universal application+ Adjustable power size EN2-5+ Tested to BSEN1154 and EN1634-1+ Assists BS8300 for Doc M contracts+ CE and UKCA marked+ 35 year guarantee
Rhenofol CGv plays a key role at Churchill Hospital
AccuRoof
FDT has played a key role in a £109m PFI-funded hospital development in Oxfordshire that will revolutionise cancer care. The Cancer Centre was designed with the help of cancer patients,
Helping hand for hospice
Crown Trade, product of Crown Paints Ltd
A palliative care hospice has been given a helping hand with a donation from Crown Paints.
Halton Haven Hospice, which is based in Runcorn, Cheshire, has received approximately 250 litres of paint to help them with an extensive refurbishment project which started in June.
In total, 21 rooms are being redecorated at the hospice, which provides care for individuals who have been diagnosed with a limiting or terminal illness.
Jan Gray, Family Support Team Manager at Halton Haven Hospice, said: “The donation from Crown Paints means we can decorate all of the rooms to give them a fresh new look."
Acrovyn by Design helps to create a calm environment in a new Neonatal Unit
Construction Specialties (UK) Ltd
A new SuRNICC unit at Glan Clwyd Hospital provides care for premature and sick newborn babies. The design follows the latest neonatal healthcare standards and principles of family-centred care.
In clinical areas the Acrovyn impact protection range was specified. Graphics depicting trees and butterflies, incorporated into Acrovyn by Design, were fitted in cot rooms, waiting and play areas, to brighten the environment. Acrovyn Sheet was used on door faces and frames, whilst crashrails and corner guards protect corridor walls from impact damage.
The comprehensive wall protection scheme ensures the interior remains attractive, damage free and easy to maintain.
Ashdown Forest | Modular Changing Places Toilet
CareSpaces by Wealden Rehab
Accessible toileting facilities are crucial in public spaces to meet the diverse needs of individuals. Changing Places toilets, such as the modular Care Capsule™, provide a portable and adaptable solution for those with disabilities, ensuring they can enjoy their outings comfortably. A recent project with the Sussex Wildlife Trust exemplifies the effectiveness of Care Capsule™ in upgrading existing facilities. Despite space constraints in the visitors and education centres, a modular unit was swiftly installed adjacent to the main building, offering accessibility without the need for extensive construction within pre-existing structures.The project, initiated in January 2023, aimed for completion by the end of March 2023. The tight timeline was met through efficient processes, including a prompt site survey, proposal acceptance, and swift groundworks. Overcoming challenges like relocating a power cable, the team successfully hoisted the Care Capsule™ into place. The exterior was clad in local chestnut timber to harmonize with the surroundings, while interior features like Altro non-slip vinyl flooring, White Rock welded wall finishes, and height-adjustable units ensured both functionality and aesthetic coherence.
Effects of noise and stress in healthcare
Saint-Gobain Ecophon
Pernilla Svensson is a registered nurse, with a master’s degree in cardiovascular care, in Klippan, near Helsingborg in southern Sweden. For the past 20 years, she has worked in a variety of hospital settings.
Birmingham Children's Hospital | Changing Places Toilet
CareSpaces by Wealden Rehab
The Changing Places toilet campaign urges the government to mandate the inclusion of Changing Places facilities in large public buildings during construction, redevelopment, or refurbishment. Care Spaces were approached to collaborate with Birmingham Children’s Hospital to implement a Changing Places facility. Initially, the chosen space was too small, prompting relocation. The Care Spaces team were able to design a layout, which they approved, and the project addressed challenges such as hands-free tap integration, drainage adjustments, and ceiling height modifications. Overcoming fire and water system issues, the completed Changing Place boasts user-friendly features, including sky ceiling LED panels and a mural wall.
Christie’s Hospital Case Study
PFC Corofil Fire Stop Products
A fully integrated cancer treatment centre that will provide exemplary care to the local community. The Christie at Macclesfield encompasses over 28,000 sq ft at a key corner on the Macclesfield General Hospital estate.
Klasse G-board | Yeovil Hospital
Klasse Group Ltd
A brand new cancer ward is being built at Yeovil District Hospital, enabling patients to recieve quicker care and treatments.The chosen external sheathing board for this project is the Klasse G-board.
Can Mates Park
Urbidermis brought to you by All Urban Ltd.
Can Mates Park spans an area of approximately 20 hectares and is open to the public. The urban planning was executed with careful consideration of the geometry and topography of the urban space, incorporating pathways, gardens, and leisure areas.
The Lyric, Hammersmith
Anderson, GEC Ltd
GEC Anderson stainless steel back bar counters and units were specified for the Foyer Bar and Mezzanine Kitchen at landmark London theatre, the Lyric.Mica architects were asked to handle the extensive refurbishment and GEC Anderson were awarded the contract to supply and install their specialist back bar equipment. Although the overall area of the bar is quite large, including all of the required items and equipment within its confines was quite challenging. Careful planning and design was necessary to achieve it and some unique fabrications and inventive use of available space were needed. Careful co-ordination and liaison between the GEC Anderson, the theatre and the design team enabled the end result to be realised.
Early Learning Centre
Forbo Flooring Systems
Forbo Flooring Systems’ integrated portfolio of solutions played a vital role in helping to achieve a welcoming, stimulating and caring learning environment for the early learners of a new purpose-built nursery in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire.
Axis Case Study 34 Luton & Dunstable University Hospital - A&E V1
Axis Entrance Systems Ltd
To extend and refurbish the Luton and Dunstable University Hospital’s Emergency Department. This £14.5 million project included the creation of a new entrance into the healthcare facility to provide the local community with greater accessibility to quality care and critical services
Upton Mill incorporating inclusive design principles
danfloor UK Ltd
Situated in the beautiful Cotswold town of Tetbury, Upton Mill takes its name from the town’s famous woollen mills industry and is a beautiful care home, that has incorporated considered design principles, for residents to reside in.
Children's Hospice a retreat for the whole family
Guldmann Limited
The Grimm's fairy tale, "The Star Money" gives inspiration:Inspiration to face the adversities of life and still be there for others. The Sterntaler, a children's hospice in Dudenhofen near Speyer deliberately chose this name, because it wants to be an inspiration as well.Most adults associate institutions such as hospices with a certain amount of anxiety. After all, a hospice reminds us of the finite nature of life. The care activities in a children's hospice however focus more on life and less on its impermanence, this begins, not with end-of-life care, but much earlier. For example, like the other children's hospices in Germany, the Sterntaler in-patient children's hospice in Dudenhofen (near Speyer) provides the entire family of a terminally ill child with the opportunity to recharge their batteries for up to four weeks a year.
Mulberry Bear Day Nursery, Milton Keynes
Twinfix Limited
Mulberry Bear Nursery is situated on the Open University campus in Milton Keynes and provides care for babies and children of staff and students at the campus. They were looking at ways they could offer a more usable outdoor space for their children and babies.
RSPCA Newbrook Farm Animal Welfare Centre, Birmingham
Dortek Ltd
RSPCA Newbrook Farm Animal Welfare Centre is situated in 72 acres of glorious countryside in Frankley. The state of the art hospital cares for up to 150 animals and is also used for filming ITV's Give A Pet Home series and the Dog Rescuers.
Whitby Hospital
Gerflor Flooring UK Limited
When the local community hospital in Whitby, Yorkshire commissioned a complete re-development and refurbishment of the existing location and buildings, the flooring and finishing throughout the site would need to be of the very highest standards. International flooring specialist Gerflor would supply over 7000m2 of high-quality flooring, together with a selection of Gradus handrails and corner guards for this Procure 22 project.The redevelopment of Whitby Hospital by the team at Medical Architecture has created a modern health and social care hub which supports the integrated delivery of primary care, secondary care, and community services.Louise Drew, Senior Architect, Medical Architecture said, “We chose to specify Gerflor for their outstanding world class flooring products and were pleased that they could also assist us with the wall protection surface needs for the healthcare facility. It was refreshing to know that we could work with both businesses for this iconic refurbishment. We specified the Gradus wall protection solutions, thanks to the innovative products that would enhance the building interiors”.Andy Gordon, Gerflor Key Account Manager, Healthcare North commented, “There was approx. 7000m2 of Gerflor products specified to all areas of the building, along with a number of Gradus Wall Protection solutions for the corridors, clinical areas, stairways, wet areas, toilets, together with storage rooms and X-Ray areas. Overall, it was a significant project that would require innovative solutions.”
Regent Street, Douglas, Isle of Man
Hardscape Products Ltd
Employing precision techniques and careful material selection, Hardscape assisted in the design and production of innovative paving artwork for Regent Street, in the centre of Douglas. The Isle of Man Town and Village Regeneration Scheme was implemented to infuse a new energy into the island’s commercial districts.
Chelsea Barracks - Residential
Aspex UK Limited
Chelsea Barracks residential project includes 126 extra-care and affordable housing units, a two-storey public sports centre, four shops and an NHS medical centre. MContactor Mace selected Aspex to supply Novista riser doors.
Modern Seamless Terrazzo Flooring for Historic Spanish City
Flowcrete – a brand of Tremco CPG UK Ltd
The careful renovation of the Grade II Listed building’s iconic dome, reconditioned into a restaurant, was paramount. The expertise of Flowcrete UK was called upon to find flooring solutions for this area that would merge Spanish City’s early twentieth century heritage with modern building technology.
Wall Protection - Countess of Chester Hospital
Gradus
Gradus has supplied and installed a range of bespoke wall protection solutions throughout the new Same Day Emergency Care building at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Fitted by the Gradus Contracts Team, the system includes wall guards, corner guards and combination handrails.
A Farmers Kitchen
Lundhs AS
Stone: LUNDHS Emerald® - silk/leather surface.Norwegian farmer and florist, Helga Bonden, has renovated her family kitchen. Blending contemporary materials and a modern colour palette into the 100-year old farmhouse with care, the end result is absolutely beautiful.
Accord Hospice
Gerflor Flooring UK Limited
When the ACCORD Hospice in Paisley, Scotland, needed to modernise its Inpatient Unit, which offers specialist palliative and end-of-life care for people with complex needs along with support facilities for their families, the uppermost driving factors were infection control, comfort and aesthetics.
Newham University Hospital
Specialist Door Solutions
Newham Hospital provides all the services expected of a local hospital including emergency care, surgery, children’s health, women’s health, maternity services, specialist medicine, long-term care and diagnostics.They see more than 500 patients in their A&E department every day and have one of the largest maternity units in the UK with more than 6,000 births each year. Their state-of-the-art Rainbow Centre is fully geared up to meet the needs of their young patients and their families in a child-friendly environment and are dementia friendly across the whole site.This project was a conversion of the first floor office space to form a 24 bed ward at this busy London Hospital.The client chose Dfendoors in American White Oak and Peppermint to create a really effective contrasting finish.This was cleverly matched with the Dfend wall protection products.
Greater Manchester Major Trauma Hospital
Kingspan Insulation
The new Greater Manchester Major Trauma Hospital at Salford Royal Hospital, part of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, is set to provide much needed additional capacity to care for and treat major trauma patients. BAM were appointed to lead the construction of the new facility as part of the Government’s New Hospital Programme. The project required completion of a building within both the Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) and the tight programme timescales due to the urgent need for extra capacity.With the hospital committed to achieve an 80% reduction in the carbon emissions they directly control by 2028 – 2032, it was also essential that the facility was well insulated to reduce the demand on its heating systems. To deliver this, whilst meeting the project requirements for a European Classification (Euroclass) A1 or A2 rated façade insulation, K-Roc Rainscreen Slab was fitted as part of the building’s rainscreen façade.
School Hand Dryers - Student's views
Heat Outdoors & Handy Dryers
Students are now, more than ever acutely aware of carbon footprints and energy efficiency. Installing a super energy efficient hand dryer not only saves your establishments money, it also shows your students that you care and are doing whatever you can to make a difference.
Shooting Star Children's Hospice
Zip Water
Shooting Star Children’s Hospices, a charity which cares for babies, children and young people with life-limiting conditions and their families, needed an urgent refurbishment within one of their hospices. The communal area at Shooting Star House, their hospice in Hampton, was tired and dated, and didn’t reflect the vibrant nature of the charity.
The Glen at Willow Valley, Pennsylvania, USA
Altro
Expanding care options with fit-for-purpose solutionsAltro Wood, Altro Serenade, Altro Aquarius, Altro Stronghold 30IssueFounded in 1995, The Glen is part of the Willow Valley Communities network that offers ageing residents a mind, body and spirit approach to wellness. The Glen provides a range of support services including shortterm rehabilitation from surgery or illness, as well as specialised memory care for individuals living with Alzheimer’s and other cognitive disorders. The facility needed updating to allow residents to continue to enjoy the comforts of home while promoting their physical and mental wellbeing.ApproachTo continue its mission of designing programmes and places fit to people, Willow Valley enlisted CCS Building Group to manage The Glen expansion project, which began in 2018. CCS collaborated with their Altro representative, knowing Willow Valley’s history of using Altro products during previous renovations with proven success.SolutionThroughout its completion, The Glen project utilised multiple Altro floors. For resident rooms accommodating those receiving skilled care, CCS chose Altro Wood for its warm, domestic aesthetic. In the facility’s communal areas, Altro Serenade provides 19dB sound reduction to reduce excess noise. Altro Stronghold 30 was used in the facility’s kitchens for its superb slip resistance and comfort underfoot for busy staff. For residents’ bathrooms and shower areas, CCS selected Altro Aquarius specialist safety flooring for its high slip resistance value both in shoes or barefoot.
St Mary’s Hospital, London
Dortek Ltd
St Mary’s Hospital is the major acute hospital for north west London as well as a maternity centre with consultant and midwife-led services. The hospital provides care across a wide range of specialities and runs one of four major trauma centres in London in addition to its 24/7 A&E department.
Fire safety and cleanability design for Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, London
Dortek Ltd
Battersea Dogs & Cats Home was established in 1860 by Mary Tealby as the Temporary Home for Lost and Starving Dogs. Since it opened, the charity has cared for more than 3.1 million dogs and cats. To increase capacity at their old Windsor site BDCH are adding a new wing.The animal charity required specialist doors for a new intake building which includes 27 kennels and 4 maternity kennels.Dortek supplied hygienic hinged doors with Stainless Steel frames throughout the new building. Some doors also had automations and access control locks for ease of access and increased security. Fire doors with 30 minutes certification were also supplied for the protection of animals and staff throughout the facility.The GRP construction of Dortek doors makes them easy to clean, waterproof and extremely robust. They are ideally suited to animal care facilities requiring a low maintenance design.
Comfort in hospital spaces
Saint-Gobain Ecophon
In 1858, Florence Nightingale expressed the following words: ‘Unnecessary noise is the most cruel absence of care which can be inflicted upon either the sick or well!’ Today, more than 100 years after, research shows that we are still struggling with noise wherever people live, work, sleep and recover.
St Ann's Hospital - Tottenham
Bostik Ltd
The redevelopment of St Ann’s Hospital, a multipurpose healthcare campus in Tottenham, included a new, purpose-built mental health inpatient building. Designed to transform the care of patients and the working conditions of staff, the 74-bed mental health facility involved an extensive redevelopment of the previous wards on the site and is rated BREEAM Excellent.
TLC Whitewater
Sculptform Ltd
TLC Whitewater is a ground-breaking Australian-first intergenerational precinct that integrates residential aged care, early learning, hospitality and wellness in a modern and vibrant facility.Inspired by VIA Architects’ commitment to fostering connectivity and community engagement, Sculptform’s expertise in curvilinear cladding with Click-on Battens adds a distinct layer of sophistication to the project.
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