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10/05/11
Derby Hospitals Rewarded for its Green Credentials
We are proud to announce that Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard for reducing its carbon emissions by nearly 4%. HCP currently provide SPV Management at the Hospital and have worked closely with all service providers and the Trust, to achieve these significant savings.
The Carbon Trust Standard is a mark of excellence that is awarded to organisations for measuring, managing and reducing their carbon emissions and committing to make further reductions year on year. It is valid for two years and is the world’s first such award.
In total Derby Hospitals has cut its carbon emissions by 1,198 tonnes of CO2equivalent, which is equivalent to 1 year of electricity and gas for 160 homes.
Paul Brooks, head of facilities management, said: “We are very proud to have been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard. It shows our patients, visitors and staff that we are serious about taking action on climate change through real carbon reduction.
“Going through the assessment process to achieve the Carbon Trust Standard helped us to not only quantify our footprint, but also benchmark our performance and identify areas for improvement. We have already cut our carbon emissions by nearly 4% - we estimate that this will save us around £180,000 - as part of the initiative and are committed to making further reductions in the future.”
25/11/10
Prime Ministers David Cameron and Frederk Reinfeldt visit The Royal
London Hospital project
The Royal London Hospital project was host to a visit by the UK and Swedish prime ministers on 25 November 2010. The Royal London hospital is part of the £1bn PFI redevelopment project for Barts and The London hospitals, which is being managed by HCP.
The visit gave both PMs the chance to see firsthand a great example of UK/Swedish cooperation.
During a tour of the facility, Mr Cameron spoke to staff working on the project, including HCP’s Regional Director Jane Sansome, who explained the timing of the opening of the facility, the design of the theatres and how the building will be commissioned in readiness for the first patients.
HCP provide SPV (special purpose vehicle) Project Management and were commissioned by Skanska to support the Clinical Planning of the hospital.
The new hospitals programme will replace many of the hospitals’ ageing buildings with state-of-the-art healthcare facilities to rival the best in Europe.
01/10/10
Peterborough Acute Hospital Completion
HCP is delighted to report that the Peterborough Acute Hospital was successfully handed over on 1 October 2010 to the Trust, ahead of the scheduled completion date.
TheGreater Peterborough Health Investment Plan (GPHIP) is a £351million project to build Peterborough City Hospital, the City Care Centre and the Cavell Centre (mental health unit) in Peterborough by 2010. It is a joint venture between the hospitals trust, Peterborough Primary Care Trust and Cambridge and Peterborough Foundation Trust. It is led by PFI consortium Progress Health.
The HCP team has been instrumental in creating good working relationships between all project parties. The HCP team are required to manage separate performance regimes for the three Trusts concurrently. To date the quality and standard of service delivery, and the Service Providers’ focus on innovation, has been appreciated by all three Trusts. The good partnership working has also been evident in the commissioning and mobilisation of new buildings.
20/09/10
Winner announced for Guy’s and St Thomas’ Cancer Treatment Centre
competition
HCP Social Infrastructure (UK) Ltd, Anshen & Allen Associates, Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners and Laing O’Rourke Construction are the winning team in the competition to design a new Cancer Treatment Centre for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
Launched in February 2010, the competition sought teams with the capacity and imagination to design and deliver a ‘world-class facility’ that would provide an outstanding patient experience and working environment. The new building will be the first in a phased development that will ultimately produce an Integrated Cancer Centre, combining first-class clinical care with groundbreaking medical research. Architects and contractors were required to collaborate from day one, and the competition followed a multi-stage process which at the final stage invited teams to come up with design concepts for the new building.
Anshen Allen/Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners/Laing O’Rourke’s winning design is based around the idea of breaking the building down into five three-storey ‘villages’ stacked up on the corner of the site. The judges concluded this to be an intelligent and well-considered design, offering a clear strategy that will allow the building to respond to short, mid- and long-term change.
06/07/10
Beacon Centre Awarded Macmillan Quality Environment Mark
A special ceremony took place at the Beacon Centre during June to celebrate being awarded the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark. HCP provide Operational SPV Management to The Beacon Centre in Taunton, Somerset.
The award is designed to help ensure people affected by cancer are treated and supported in quality physical environments that improve the quality of care they receive. Sites and services are approved only after a detailed assessment and are given the award because of their leading edge work in cancer care.
The Macmillan plaque was formally unveiled by Ed Murphy, Senior Macmillan Development Manager and Ros Wyke, Trust Chairman.
Sir Ian Carruthers, the Chief Executive of the Strategic Health Authority for the South West also visited the Beacon Centre on the same day and was introduced to HCPs General Manager of the SPV.
28/05/10
HCP Awarded 'Best International Project'
HCP has been awarded 'Best International Project' for our $348m Royal Jubilee Hospital in Canada; beating projects from Germany, Australia, Saudi Arabia and USA. The Royal Jubilee Hospital’s Patient Care Centre in Victoria, British Columbia, is the world’s first acute care facility designed entirely for the elderly.
The hospital was built with a focus on evidencebased,elder-friendly design, low infection transfer risk, high staff satisfaction criteria and sustainable design. Key features include large opening windows to maximise natural light; standardisation in design, equipment location and functionality to reduce medical error; and 83% single-bed patient rooms that are designed to allow family members to participate in patient care.
18/02/10
New Cancer Centre at Barts Hospitals Now Open
The completion of the new cancer centre at Barts Hospital in London was marked by a ceremony at the new hospital on Tuesday, 16 March 2010. A photograph of the hospital, created by a mosaic of images of staff, patients and milestone events throughout construction was presented to Peter Morris, chief executive of Barts and The London NHS Trust (centre), by John Costello, chair of Capital Hospitals (left) and Mike Putnam, chief executive of Skanska UK.
Construction began in 2006 as part of the £1bn programme to redevelop Barts and The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, London. The new centre will house many of the specialist services of the Barts Cancer Centre, and also a small number of wards and departments that will later move into the new hospital at The Royal London when it is completed in 2011/2012.
Work will now continue at Barts to develop the second phase of the project, which will house a cardiac centre of excellence when it is completed in autumn 2014.
Patients and staff moved into the new facility on Wednesday 17 March 2010.
24/02/10
HCP Social Infrastructure (UK) Ltd attends BSEC
HCP Social Infrastructure (UK) Ltd is attending the BSEC conference on 24 -25 February in ExCel, London. We see this as an excellent opportunity to meet likeminded organisations, who are keen to work in partnership to transform education.
We are interested in discussing your project or programme proposals, building on our existing partnerships with both the public and private sectors, creating strategies to deliver effective and valued services. Through our extensive portfolio of Schools we manage across 10 live projects, we bring real life experience to programmes such as Building Schools for the Future (BSF), the Primary Capital Programme, the Academies Programme and Schools PFI. Since the inception of BSF, we have both led and supported bids, offering bid management, partnering services expertise, regeneration, skills and employment solutions.
If you meet any of our team, or we were not able to catch up during the two days and you would like to discuss working together in greater detail, please give us a call in our London office (0207 156 5010) to find out more about our services, arrange a meeting or receive a fact sheet.
02/02/10
First Section of Barts and The Royal London Reaches
Completion
The first section of Phase 1 for Barts and The Royal London reaches completion. This involved the completion of the first two floors (basement and ground) of the new King George Vbuilding at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. The Trust now has access to these floors, enabling the commissioning team to carry out final preparations for the move.
The basement will be home to the radiotherapy unit and the ground floor to imaging; contracts managed by Varian and Siemens respectively. Shown in the adjacent images is the arrival of the first Linac Accelerator machine and two MRI scanners.
Work is continuing on the remaining six floors which will reach completion on 10 February 2010. Staff and patients will move into the new building on 17 March, which will become a Centre of Excellence for Cancer. Phase 2 of Barts is due to open in September 2014 when Cardiac services will also move to the hospital.
St Bartholomew’s Hospital is part of the £1.1bn regeneration project under The London NHS Trust, involving The Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, and St Bartholomew’s Hospital, in the City. HCP manages the Project Company and is working closely with the Trust on required changes to the project while construction proceeds.
25/01/10
Introducing HCP Social Infrastructure (UK) Ltd
On 22 January 2010 Health Care Projects Ltd (HCP) officially changed its company name to HCP Social Infrastructure (UK) Ltd. This change reflects our organic extension into the wider social fields of education, health, justice, transport and housing.
The HCP portfolio currently includes 30 projects under management with a total value of over £5 billion. This portfolio consisting of the following projects:
- 16 health (22 health facilities)
- 10 school (46 premises)
- 2 court (5 premises)
- 1 social housing (1338 homes)
- 1 transport network (Nottingham Tram)
We will also be mobilising 4 additional school projects by June 2010.
Our commitment to the public environment and social infrastructure comes from our background in the public sector, Education and NHS. Our staff believe in improving environments where public services can flourish and have built a reputation for ensuring projects focus on advancing the staff and user environments and on building services that support both.
Our goal and purpose remains to be the social partner of choice and excel inproviding workable, evidence based solutions that positively contribute to quality environments where professional expertise can flourish.
