Case Studies

Client: NHS Trust North Wales.

Project: North Wales Adolescent Unit

Location: Abergele

Main Contractor: Laing O’Rourke Construction Ltd

Product Supplied: Timberframe Structure for Whole Building

Contract Value: £11 Million

Completion Date: June 15, 2009

Challenge

• Partner Laing O'Rourke on design, manufacture, and installation of framing system.
• Provide new adolescent facility, with an overall floor area of 3,157m2 largely in ground floor space.
• Have project ready to use before July when lease runs out on former premises.
• Avoid noisy and dusty operations on a live, working hospital site.
• Provide sustainable build.
• Provide simplified construction.
• Provide building with superior acoustics and adaptability for client and end-users – the patients.
• Work well within the 'Designed for Life: Building for Wales' Framework.
• Provide value for money.

Solution

The entire framework was erected quickly and on time, it was an “excellent performance”, with the on-site teams working well together, helped by the “can do approach” demonstrated by Deeside.

"Deeside Timberframe is tried and trusted."

"Deeside Timberframe has a proven track record and understands the complicated nature of the design and lead-in process, therefore giving surety and confidence in the delivery of a quality end product."

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Client: Mersey Care NHS Trust.

Project: Low Secure Hospital

Location: Rathbone Hospital, Liverpool

Main Contractor: Laing O'Rourke Construction Ltd, ProCure 21 Project

Product Supplied: Replace unsuitable patient accommodation with Timberframe solution

Contract Value: £11 Million

Challenge

• Update Patient Accommodation.
• Ensure all patient accommodation:
  • Be on the ground floor
  • Give immediate access to outside spaces
• Avoid noisy and dusty operations on a live, working hospital site.
• Design structure so that secure enclosure is formed by the building itself, rather than perimeter fences.
• Enable the quick achievement of a weather-sealed built enclosure.
• Provide:
  • 30 en-suite Bedrooms
  • Lounges
  • Workshops
  • Quiet Rooms
  • Gymnasium
  • Simplified construction
  • Creative technical solutions concerning wind bracing and robustness on unusual enclosure design
  • Swift and sustainable construction

Solution

Deeside Timberframe worked closely with its build partners from an early stage of the design to help bring ideas to the table and remained flexible and pro-active in creating the perfect solution for the task.

"I found Deeside proactive and highly flexible in their approach."
Gerald Smith, ProCure21

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