Platinum Medical Centre Opens
The Platinum Medical Centre (formerly known as the Wellington Out Patient Centre), a state-of-the-art healthcare facility, has been completed.
The project was delivered as a 50/50 joint venture between Balfour Beatty Construction and Balfour Beatty Engineering Services, working with Avanti Architects, Pure Structures and M&E services designers Hulley & Kirkwood. The project comprised the conversion of a 1960s six-storey office block, into a 21st century healthcare facility.
The Platinum Medical Centre is now the UK’s largest private diagnostic and outpatient centre, covering 50,000 sq ft and servicing 70,000 out patients every year. The new building increases the private hospital size by almost a third.
Design and development which included planning with the local authority started in January 2010. The first phase, basement to third floor, was handed over on 3 May 2011.
The first phase included the imaging suite within the basement comprising MRI, PET/CT, radiology and ultrasound departments, with the main reception, pharmacy, oncology suite, laboratory, cytoxin suite (clean rooms) and café on the ground floor, and fifty consulting rooms, thirteen treatment rooms and hand therapy department accommodated on the first to third floors.
Following handover of the first phase and during the client occupation and use, works on the fourth and fifth floor continued to provide 12 recovery wards, an eight-bay minor procedures department and theatre reception on the fourth floor, four theatres, two with UCV laminar flow canopies and a six-bed PACU area on the fifth floor. Works had to be carried out and commissioned without interruption to the PMC activities and operations on the lower floors.
The final phase was successfully handed over on 18 July 2011. During the two weeks following handover, client HCA equipped and commissioned the theatres and carried out staff training, in readiness for the first operations which took place on 1 August.
Overall, works were completed over 18 months, and included the design, construction and commissioning at an agreed cost of £19m. Congratulations to Robin Wyborn and the project team from Building Services South.
Posted: Monday 19 September 2011