TPi March 2013

business & market news

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.

Drain Center supplied drainage materials for the hospital project

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.

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.”

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Dave Hodgson, southern sales manager for Drain Center, added, “In a hospital

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