Project Brief
A new 14,728sqm £100m specialist hospital facility in Birmingham, which will provide acute care to private patients, as well as extra capacity and access to specialist facilities for NHS patients.
The 138-bed specialist hospital facility is being built on the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham campus, for a partnership between HCA Healthcare UK (HCA UK) and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust Foundation Trust (UHB).
The hospital will include a radiotherapy unit, and state-of-the-art operating theatres. It will be equipped with the latest technology to provide some of the most complex surgical and medical procedures and treatments across cancer, cardiology, neurology, hepatobiliary, urology, orthopaedics, and stem cell transplantation.
Works Performed
- 2 km of Ducts and service diversions formed around hospital to allow contiguous piling to building perimeter
- 4000 sqm of piling mat and roads formed for external contiguous piling works
- 300 m of contiguous piles chopped down and capping beams formed to site perimeter
- Formed and shuttered pilecaps to bridge supports
- Removed redundant concrete steam duct and sealed off ends
- 2 dewatering systems formed to deal with fast flowing ground water and separate well points installed at a later date
- 4000 sqm of piling mats and roads formed for internal piling works
- 300 no piles to pile caps broken down and pile caps formed on top
- Installed volclay waterproofing and bitumen-based products throughout
- 100 m of King post retaining wall installed
- 30000 m3 of earth removed
- Foul and Storm drains throughout basement, petrol interceptor
- 30,000 litre foul storage tanks installed with concrete slabs over
- 2no 5m deep 1.8m diameter pumping chambers installed with valve chambers
- Large underground Fuel tank installed
- 400m cubed of excavation for attenuation tanks
