Healthcare
The care provided to the local community by healthcare
institutions is invaluable, however they are continually asked to
provide an increasing level of service on a decreasing budget.
Recognising this, Kimpton's work with the project teams and M&E
consultants to ensure that the schemes are value engineered to
deliver fully functional, quality installations within restrictive
budgets.
Gnosall Medical Centre
Claire House
Gnosall Medical Centre
The Client
This brand new purpose built medical centre supplies all primary
care facilities to patients within Gnosall and the surrounding
community in Staffordshire. As well as offering expanded nursing
services, a physiotherapy department, pharmacy and a dental
practice, the centre also offers improved facilities for chiropody,
audiology, scanning and minor surgery.
The Challenge
Designed and built by main contractors David McLean, the 1,714
square metre building is over four times the size of the GP surgery
it replaced and therefore has substantial heating and ventilation
requirements across the different healthcare facilities. Kimpton
Building Services was appointed to deliver this aspect of the
project.
The Solution
An extensive HVAC specification, Kimpton were
responsible for the design and build of a system that included
boilers, pumps, boosters, storage tanks and radiators. Other
climate control features installed throughout the Centre included
air conditioning and natural ventilation
redistribution systems to maintain ambient temperatures
throughout.
Following the successful installation, Kimpton's service and
maintenance division were also awarded the ongoing Planned
Preventative Maintenance (PPM) contract
for the building which sees it carry out bi-annual checks on all
HVAC plant as well as emergency
repairs where needed.
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Claire House
The Client
Claire House is a children's hospice, located in Clatterbridge,
Wirral. Helping families from Merseyside, Cheshire, North Wales and
the Isle of Man, the hospice offers care to children aged 0 - 18
years with life threatening or life limiting conditions and offers
support to their relatives.
The Challenge
The majority of the children helped by Claire House have always
been at the younger end of its age range, and the fit out of the
hospice was geared towards the needs of young children. However,
the hospice also caters for teenagers and the decision was taken to
add a teenage wing to help patients in this age group feel more at
home.
As with all hospices, Claire House receives very little public
funding and relies on charity donations to pay for its considerable
running costs. As a result, the teenage wing extension had to be
completed under tight budgetary constraints.
The Solution
Based locally to Claire House, Kimpton Building Services was
brought on board to provide all mechanical and
electrical works for the teenage wing. In order to help
the project remain within budget, the company worked with the
M&E consultant to develop the design and look
for potential savings and value engineering opportunities.
Amongst the work carried out by Kimpton was design development
and installation on automatic doors, fire
alarms, workstations and emergency generator
systems. All work was carried out under business as usual
conditions at the hospice to ensure that patients continued to
receive the same high standards of care while the new wing took
shape.
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