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Tube ProducTs InTernaTIonal March 2013
Special delivery
for Britain’s oldest
hospital
Drain Center is working with public
health engineers PSI to deliver all of the
drainage requirements on phase two
of the St Bartholomew’s new hospital
project in London. This involves Drain
Center arranging special deliveries into
a centralised depot outside the city, to
consolidate and reduce the number of
deliveries onto the busy site.
St Bartholomew’s (Barts) in London
is Britain’s oldest hospital, founded in
1123. As part of Barts and the London
new hospitals programme, many of the
ageing buildings are being replaced with
state-of-the-art healthcare facilities. The
first phase of construction at Barts saw
the opening of one of Europe’s most
advanced cancer centres, and work is
now underway on the second phase,
a cardiac centre of excellence due for
completion in 2014.
PSI was appointed to install syphonic
rainwater, gravity rainwater and soil
and vent pipes for phase two of the
hospital project. It chose Drain Center
as supply partner to provide all the
drainage materials, including Geberit
HDPE specialist drainage and Wade Ltd
floor gullies.
John Whybrow, project director at PSI,
commented, “Some of the parts are pre-
fabricated at our own pre-fab shop, then
delivered to site via the consolidation
centre. Then the rest are electro-fused
together at the Barts construction site.
We selected Drain Center to supply all
of the drainage materials we needed,
not only because they offered us the
best deal on pricing but also because of
stock availability.
“The programme is tight on this project
and any materials shortages would have
caused problems. We had to choose a
supply partner who could always deliver
the stock when we needed it and we’ve
been impressed with all the deliveries
on the project so far.”
Dave Hodgson, southern sales manager
for Drain Center, added, “In a hospital
environment, considerate construction
is vital throughout the phased building
programme. Deliveries onto site have
to be carefully timed to minimise traffic
congestion and safeguard patients and
visitors around the hospital. We are
working with PSI and [main contractor]
Skanska to deliver the materials to a
consolidation centre six miles outside
of the city, so that site deliveries can be
carefully coordinated. We also deliver
parts for pre-fabrication straight to PSI’s
own pre-fab shop.”
With over 80 branches across the UK,
Drain Center stocks a wide variety of
products for both above and below
ground applications and the utilities
industry.
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Drain Center
supplied
drainage
materials for
the hospital
project
Pipes in Infrastructure conference
A new conference – Pipes in
Infrastructure – will take place from
9 to 11 April 2013, at the Hotel Nikko in
Düsseldorf, Germany.
The conference will focus on plastic
pipe systems used within infrastructure
applications, such as drinking water
supply and distribution, gas transmission
and distribution, underground drainage
and sewerage, road and railway
drainage, land drainage, underground
cable protection and district heating.
The conference will provide an
opportunity to highlight the latest
innovations and discuss current and
future challenges faced by the industry
thanks to a panel of expert international
speakers gathered by AMI.
The different sessions will cover
topics such as installation techniques,
developments in material technology
and process technology, testing and
sustainability. There will also be a market
overview session with papers from AMI
and Eandis.
Pipe producers such as Wavin GmbH,
Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd, Rollepaal
and Georg Fisher Piping Systems
Ltd will share their experiences
and latest developments for the
industry. Other companies taking
part in the programme include Friatec
AG, Reinert-Ritz GmbH, Amster-
Howard, Hobas, TWI Ltd and SHS
Energieefizienz GmbH.
Pipes in Infrastructure 2013 will offer a
networking opportunity for delegates
representing the entire industry,
including pipe specifiers and installers
and end users, resin suppliers, additive
producers, machinery makers, pipe
manufacturers and fittings suppliers,
and testing and certification bodies.
The event will offer a comprehensive
overview of the latest material,
technology and business trends.
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