Southmead Hospital, Bristol

 

Client: Carillion with M&E management by Crown House Technologies Ltd
Value: £2.1m
Programme: 2 years
Consultant: DSSR

 Southmead is a large district general hospital project built on the northern outskirts of Bristol. This significant expansion allowed for the movement of services from the Frenchay Hospital to the Southmead site.

The scheme brought all departments and services together under one roof, named the Brunel building, after Bristol engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Delivering 800 beds, 24 operating theatres, patient gardens, a public square, a helipad and a multi-storey car park for visitors. Southmead was only the 2nd hospital in the country to benefit from single bedroomed wards with ensuite facilities. The accident and emergency department at Frenchay closed on 19 May 2014 and reopened at Southmead the next day. Our team successfully delivered this large ventilation project, led the co-ordination exercise and engineered a well-received final result remotely from our factory in Hailsham, East Sussex.