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Medical gases for acute inpatients facility at GOSH

 

 

The Premier Inn Clinical Building is the second of two new buildings that comprise the Mittal Children’s Medical Centre at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). The Mittal Children’s Medical Centre will deliver the hospital’s vision of providing modern facilities for all acute inpatients, where a parent or carer can stay comfortably by their bedside. The seven storey facility will provide spacious bedrooms, two integrated theatres, two anaesthetic rooms, a post anaesthetic care unit, a high dependency area and a 16 bed isolation facility.

Medical Gases will install systems providing the facility with medical oxygen, medical air, surgical air, medical vacuum and anaesthetic gas scavenging systems (AGSS). All beds will be provided with dual circuits for additional resilience.

 

Project: Great Ormond Street

Client: Skanska

Value: £750,000

Medical gases for the Birmingham Dental Hospital & School of Dentistry

 

 

The £50m Birmingham Dental Hospital and School of Dentistry is the first integrated, stand-alone dental hospital and dental school to be built in the UK for almost 40 years. Work started in 2013, building the facility on the former home of BBC Pebble Mill studios. Medical Gases is currently designing and installing the dental gas system and a laboratory gas system within the new university teaching hospital. Services include O2, N20, vacuum, compressed air and various specialist gases for laboratory use.

 

Project: Birmingham Dental Hospital & School of Dentistry

Client: Interserve

Value: £650,000

Medical gases for Imperial West, London

 

 

Imperial West is Imperial College London’s major new campus located in White City, Hammersmith. The development will comprise of nine new buildings, which will provide multi-disciplinary research space for Imperial scientists and engineers.

Laing O’Rourke’s, which is handling the construction, will manufacture building modules offsite to reduce costs and minimise disruption to the busy surrounding area. Medical gases pipework will be installed inside the relevant modules in Laing O’ Rourke’s module manufacturing facility in Oldbury, Birmingham.

Medical Gases is supplying oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, vacuum, compressed air, and a spare gas line within 29 laboratories in Block D. The company has worked closely with Laing O’ Rourke’s design team to provide maximum control of the systems within each laboratory. This has been achieved using a bespoke control panel, which was designed and manufactured by Medical Gases, and a local gas detection and gas supply alarm system.

 

Project: Imperial West – Block D, London

Client: Crown House Technologies

Value: £520,000