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Blackpool, Lancashire
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Brighton, East Sussex
Louisa Martindale Building - 3Ts
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
The Brighton 3Ts Redevelopment is transforming the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton with a three-phase plan to improve services and provide a new regional centre for Trauma, Teaching, and Tertiary Care (3Ts).
Stage 1 – the first and largest of the three-stage programme – delivered 62,000sqm of clinical and support accommodation in the new Louisa Martindale Building (LMB), named after the first female GP in Brighton who became one of the world’s leading gynaecologists.
Sectors
The 3Ts Redevelopment takes the front half of the Royal Sussex County Hospital from the 19th to 21st century – by facilitating the decanting of services from the oldest acute ward building in the NHS (the Barry Building, which opened in 1828) to the newest clinical building in NHS England.
The Louisa Martindale Building (LMB) provides major new facilities for more than 30 wards and departments, new diagnostic and theatre capacity, as well as increased capacity for the departments with high demand, including neurosciences, stroke services and intensive care.
Appointed in January 2021, we worked alongside the scheme’s contractor, Laing O’Rourke, to provide construction supervision, cost management and project management services to manage the execution of the NEC2 contract.
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Key Information
28
clinical wards & departments
62,000sqm
building
New
diagnostic & theatre capacity
11
storeys
Our role on Phase 1 (LMB) involved preventing delays and construction overspend through oversight of the contractor and management of the NEC2 contract. Careful liaison with relevant stakeholders, delivery of a robust change management process and reporting to the correct level of detail were all established during our commission.
The team was responsible for checking compliance of the build with the specification and the witnessing of services. The cost management team oversaw all applications for payment in collaboration with the NEC2 PM, reviewed all quotations and produced monthly updates on the cost plan. The client was kept constantly informed on the cost position on this challenging build.
McBains is currently appointed on Stage 2 - the Sussex Cancer Centre - of the 3Ts Redevelopment programme.
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As part of the scheme, the hospital’s Victorian, Grade II listed chapel was intricately deconstructed and relocated to a purpose-built heritage space in the new Louisa Martindale Building. The reconstruction and restoration of the chapel took place offsite in a bespoke, three-storey concrete superstructure, with the historic fabric of the chapel being slotted into place at the new site, keeping disruption to a minimum. The chapel’s stonework, walnut panelling, organ pipes, marble and teak flooring, pews and pulpit were all delicately removed, with stained glass sent off site for conservation and cleaning. As the chapel now sits in the new building with no access to natural light, a series of light boxes were mounted behind the windows to simulate daylight, programmed to brighten and dim throughout the day.
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Delivering sustainable outcomes alongside new state-of-the-art healthcare accommodation was a key focus of the project, with an overarching target of BREEAM Excellent. Adopting a fabric first approach, the building was designed with improved air-tightness and thermal performance when compared to Part L. To improve the patient experience and energy performance, glazing ratios and positioning were optimised to provide sea views alongside an abundance of natural light. Through an upgraded energy centre, new efficient heating systems were installed to reduce operational carbon, with further savings seen through the highly efficient lighting strategy. Utilising a Design for Manufacture (DfMA) process, waste from materials was minimised and all new materials were appraised for health and wellbeing and environmental impacts.
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