A new theatre training centre at Freeman Hospital in Newcastle-upon-Tyne was required to enable staff from across the North to participate in the latest interactive simulated training in clinical procedures.
The scheme would be the first clinical training facility of its kind in the North of England.
The Solution
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust appointed Foremans to provide a single-storey modular building to accommodate the new training centre.
The scheme comprises 10 pre-owned steel-framed modules which were recycled and refurbished for this project, enabling it to be delivered in just 11 weeksfrom receipt of order to handover. This short programme allowed the Trust to bring the facility into use as fast as possible to meet demand, and facilitated access to national funding. The centre is now running at full capacity.
The building features:
clinical education rooms with a control room for each
a category 6 containment laboratory
seminar rooms
offices
toilets
storage facility.
Foremans also supplied an audio door control system, security alarms and fire detection system, and implemented a traffic management plan to minimise disruption during the building delivery and installation phase.
New Medical Electronics Building
Foremans has also constructed a new medical electronics building at Freeman Hospital, which enabled the department to be relocated for the consolidation of clinical services on this constrained hospital site.
The new building, which comprises 14 recycled modules, provides more storage space and a more appropriate working environment for the medical electronics team. It was delivered in a challenging timescale of just 10 weeks from receipt of order, to fit in with the Trust's wider development programme.
Estates and Stores Building
When the Trust needed to relocate the estates and stores building to accommodate a new data centre, Foremans supplied a purpose-designed two-storey stores facility using pre-owned building modules. This solution ensured continuity of service and the centralisation and more efficient management of the hospital's stores.
Comments from the Client
Steven Bannister, Director of Estates and Facilities, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust:
"Foremans has been able to provide exactly what we needed for each project, and to challenging deadlines. Timing is critical to the Trust, in order to bring the buildings into use in the shortest possible time, and new manufacture or site-based construction would have taken much longer."
"The environmental performance of our buildings is also very important to the Trust. The pre-owned modular approach enabled us to offer a higher degree of sustainability with the use of recycled modules. We are very pleased with Foremans' performance on these three schemes and would have no hesitation in recommending their approach or in using it again."
A new theatre training centre at Freeman Hospital in Newcastle-upon-Tyne was required to enable staff from across the North to participate in the latest interactive simulated training in clinical procedures. 
The building features:
When the Trust needed to relocate the estates and stores building to accommodate a new data centre, Foremans supplied a purpose-designed two-storey stores facility using pre-owned building modules. This solution ensured continuity of service and the centralisation and more efficient management of the hospital's stores.
