Kier

Kier, alongside TRJ, are working with Swansea Council on behalf of Swansea Bay University Health Board to convert Bay Studios into a field hospital with 850 beds as part of the NHS in Wales response to COVID-19. The new hospital setting will be built  inside the 11,000 sq m single-tier building, where Kier is improving its existing infrastructure including heating, electricity and water supplies. NHS staff will initially be able to treat 500 patients, with a further 350 beds set to be delivered in the coming weeks.

AECOM

AECOM provided engineering, consultancy and project management services to support the construction of the new temporary NHS Louisa Jordan hospital in Glasgow.
The conversion of the Scottish Events Campus (SEC) will initially provide NHS Scotland with 300 beds as part of the response to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.

Interserve

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Working on behalf of the NHS and the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB), Interserve Construction and Interserve Engineering Services delivered the first phase of the critical NHS facility in an intense building project with more than 400 employees and contractors working on-site 24 hours a day for a week. This was achieved in line with the social distancing guidelines set out by the UK Government. Interserve was supported by 60 Gurkhas, who provided essential labour and logistics support, as well as helping to put the beds in place. Interserve laid over 64 miles of cable, 10 miles of copper piping, 15,000m2 of plywood, and vinyl flooring across the equivalent of 11.5 football pitches. Upon completion NHS Nightingale will house 4,000 patient beds for those suffering from COVID-19, boosting vital NHS capacity during the pandemic.

Hanson UK

Hanson UK supplied concrete for a key site in Swansea to support the NHS in meeting the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The single-tiered former factory and film studio site at Bay Studios, in South Wales, is being transformed into Swansea field hospital – providing temporary medical care and support to people affected by the virus in the area. Swansea Council is working with contractors and suppliers on the project to reconstruct the inside of the building into a modern hospital setting, with new lighting, electricity, drainage and ventilation being installed prior to medical equipment and beds. Once complete, the 11,000m2 unit will create around 850 extra beds for the NHS. It will also include rest areas for nursing staff, toilets, changing areas and catering areas for staff and patients.

The Clancy Group

An essential component of building NHS Nightingale at the Excel Convention Centre in London, now the world's largest critical care facility, was
ensuring that the Excel Centre has sufficient electricity supply to support the huge levels of new equipment that have been installed and will be used non-stop in the coming weeks. The Clancy Group's team worked around the clock to ensure the supply to the centre was upgraded and resilient enough to support the demand it may face.

Bradfords Building Supplies

Bradfords Building Supplies has carried out wide-ranging works to support construction of healthcare facilities across the UK. The company has seen staff from across its 43 branches nationwide pull together in unprecedented times to meet demand.
 Works have included supplying materials to allow the construction of temporary cubicles in three South West hospitals to increase capacity ready for any surge in Covid-19 cases, as well as the conversion of unused rooms into isolation units and timber ramps for ease of access on a temporary ward at two other sites. Forty key safes have also been organised to assist a local authority in the Midlands with increasing capacity for hospital discharges, and materials provided to create a zones in various South West and Midlands surgeries for the assessment of potential Covid-19 patients. Bradfords also fast-tracked the opening of an account for builders working at the NHS Nightingale Hospital at Birmingham’s NEC, with the final signature on the account received only moments before a lorry from the contractor arrived to pick up the materials they needed as a priority. 

McCarthy & Stone

​McCarthy & Stone, the UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, has offered the government and NHS 300 unoccupied apartments at some of its new and currently empty developments, to support local efforts to address the coronavirus pandemic and any shortage of NHS beds. CEO John Tonkiss commented: “The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges for people and businesses across the UK, and we know our medical services are under extreme pressure. We’re keen to provide whatever help we can.”

Wolseley UK

​​Wolseley, the specialist merchant, has made the most of its nationwide team to provide timely supplies and essential services to every single one of the Nightingale projects across the UK, helping the NHS to increase its capacity. Examples include:

  • West Bromwich acting quickly to supply urgent products with a 24-hour turnaround to the temporary NHS Nightingale Hospital at Birmingham's NEC, where up to 4,000 beds have been made available.
  • Supplying products for London's ExCel Centre, providing services which have been crucial in helping the hospital to get up and running, ready for its first patients.
  • Cambridge pulling out all the stops to support the refurbishment of an old disused ward at the Goodmayes Hospital project site in Ilford, so that it could be re-opened for Covid-19 patients.
  • Govan and Glasgow, and the William Wilson team in Cumbernauld, showing their knowledge of plumbing, heating, pumps, drainage and MDPE to facilitate necessary items for the NHS Louisa Jordan.
  • Supporting the supply of critical equipment for the Harrogate Nightingale site by same-day collections and deliveries, offering a 24/7 call out service, driving across the North to collect goods and managing to complete every request on time.

Naylor

A Yorkshire-based building materials manufacturer is pulling out the stops by working day and night to produce ventilation duct for emergency hospitals. Naylor Industries, a member of the Builders Merchants Federation, is supporting the temporary facilities, including the NHS Nightingale Hospital in London's Docklands, with its ventilation duct. The product is being installed as part of ventilation and temperature control measures at the sites. ​

VINCI Construction UK

Vinci Construction UK has provided major support services to convert the Manchester Central Convention Complex into a Nightingale Hospital that will treat up to 750 patients across the region suffering from COVID-19. Within the space of 14 days, the work carried out by the combined workforce has turned 17,000 sq m of event space into the frontline of Britain's response to COVID-19.

BAM Construction

The professional team delivering the emergency Nightingale Hospital at Harrogate Hospital has been announced. The new circa-500-bed facility, part of the Government’s response to the covid-19 pandemic, involves converting Harrogate Convention Centre to accommodate the level three critical care beds in the existing Convention Centre's halls for the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. BAM Construction was appointed as the main design and build contractor under the Government’s ProCure 22 framework for England, with the assistance of BAM Design, appointed to deliver structural engineering, and BAM’s specialist services engineering business. 

Alun Griffiths Contractors Ltd

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Alun Griffiths has been resurfacing the 
staff car park at the new Llanfrechfa Hospital ready for an early opening which will increase coronavirus critical care capacity across Gwent in Wales. Here groundworkers undertake the scheme while applying social distancing guidance.

Andrew Scott Ltd

Celebrating their 150th Anniversary as a company this year, Welsh contractors Andrew Scott Ltd, supported by the supply chain, worked round the clock to transform Llandarcy Academy of Sport into an emergency field hospital. It is the first of two field hospitals which will provide up to an additional to 1,340 temporary beds for residents of Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, and was completed within less than a month.

Aggregate Industries

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Aggregate Industries is supplying the full concrete specification for the NHS Louisa Jordan hospital in Glasgow free of charge. By following robust risk assessments and stringent health and safety guidelines, risk is mitigated for operatives and allows the materials to be delivered safely.

Etag Fixings UK

​Based in Dagenham, Etag Fixings supplied crucial materials to the build of the NHS Nightingale hospitals in London during their rapid build. Supplying materials such as plasterboard, metal, insulation and fixings, Etag have also donated PPE to the NHS staff of local hospitals in East London. Etag have been working hard to keep the supply chain open for construction sites across London and the UK.

Hanson UK

​Hanson UK supplied concrete for a key site in Swansea to support the NHS in meeting the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The single-tiered former factory and film studio site at Bay Studios, in South Wales, is being transformed into Swansea field hospital – providing temporary medical care and support to people affected by the virus in the area. Swansea Council is working with contractors and suppliers on the project to reconstruct the inside of the building into a modern hospital setting, with new lighting, electricity, drainage and ventilation being installed prior to medical equipment and beds. Once complete, the 11,000m2 unit will create around 850 extra beds for the NHS. It will also include rest areas for nursing staff, toilets, changing areas and catering areas for staff and patients.

Lakes Showering Spaces

​Lakes, a leading manufacturer of showering spaces, pulled out the stops to support the NHS at the Royal London Hospital. The carbon neutral company contributed to a project to turn two out-of-use floors at the hospital into nearly 180 beds for Covid-19 patients. Lakes provided the bi-fold showering spaces within 24 hours of receiving the order, with the goods supplied by bathrooms and washrooms specialists, Neville Lumb. Led by main contractor Wates, the project has seen up to 600 people working 24 hours a day, in two 12-hour shifts patterns, to get the job done. The two floors also include 117 clinical support rooms.

Jewson Civils Frazer

The Leeds Lake Terrace branch of Jewson Civils Frazer – a member of the Builders Merchants Federation - is pulling out the stops to support projects across the North East of England. The specialist distributor, which provides civils and utilities solutions to the building sector, has ensured materials are on hand for essential repair and maintenance across the region. It has also delivered expertise and products to support essential works, which are providing increased capacity in the NHS.’ Jewson Civils Frazer Sales Director, Nick Boyle, said, “The branch has been working throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, providing materials for essential repair and maintenance and, more broadly, for essential projects including the Nightingale Hospital in Harrogate, Sunderland Hospital, and other projects all over the North East.” 












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Sir Robert McAlpine

The building and civil engineering giant Sir Robert McAlpine has donated site cabins to hospitals across the country, including Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool and Kettering General Hospital in Northamptonshire. The cabins, usually found on their building sites, have been specially adapted for NHS staff for the duration of the national response of the COVID-19 crisis. ​Sir Robert McAlpine are also building a number of temporary hospitals, including a Nightingale Hospital in Jersey, pictured below.

Marshalls

​Materials firm Marshalls manufactured and donated 100 tonnes of screed to help the construction of a Covid-19 hospital in central Manchester. The floor of the hospital needs to be suitable to take the weight of army vehicles, ambulances and other vital vehicles that will be connected to the running of the hospital specifically for those with coronavirus. Marshalls began supplying screed immediately upon being brought into the project and opened its manufacturing site over the weekend to keep up with demand.

Mott MacDonald

Designed and made operational in under two weeks, The Dragon’s Heart hospital in Cardiff will help to fight the COVID-19 pandemic with space for up to 2,000 additional beds planned in total. The first 300 operational beds are located within the hospitality spaces and corporate boxes in the existing stadium and work is continuing at pace to complete the new ward infrastructure on and around the pitch. This includes building one of Europe’s largest tented structures under the stadium’s closed roof and constructing large raised platforms over the lower stands. Mott MacDonald is project manager, lead designer, cost consultant and employer agent for the project as part of a programme of work delivering the Dragons Hearth Hospital for Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. The consultancy is leading the consortium of companies which includes Archus, responsible for healthcare planning support, ESG Global as construction coordinator and overlay design, architects BDP, and Hoare Lea as building services engineer.

Keltbray

Specialist civil engineering firm Keltbray has finished the car park for London’s new Nightingale Hospital in the Excel Exhibition Centre. NHS staff and contractors can now travel to work safely, park their cars there and serve the public at this time of crisis.

Vinci Construction UK

Working alongside NHS staff, VINCI Construction UK Ltd. is leading Integrated Health Projects and its supply chain working day and night to create temporary Rainbow Hospitals at Deeside Leisure Centre and Bangor University in Wales. Renamed Ysbyty Enfys Glannau Dyfrdwy (Rainbow Hospital Deeside) and Ysbyty Enfys Bangor (Rainbow Hospital Bangor) they will form two out of three sites that have been handed over to Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) to provide a combined 1,000 additional beds to help meet increased demand over the coming weeks and months. BCUHB is working in partnership with local authorities and military planners to rapidly establish the hospitals so they can begin providing care for patients by the end of April. VINCI Construction are delivering the work as part of Integrated Health Projects (IHP) under the Welsh Health Framework (IHP, the joint venture between VINCI Construction and Sir Robert McAlpine, is also leading on the development of the Nightingale field hospital in Manchester) began work last weekend to demolish the 16,000 sq. ft indoor wooden skate park at Deeside Leisure Centre, which will be converted into the main ward space for the hospital. When it is completed Rainbow Hospital Deeside will have 430 beds and Rainbow Hospital Bangor 250.

NMC

NMC are proud to assist and support our fantastic NHS, on behalf of their client CBRE, completing essential line marking works at The NEC, Birmingham. Within hours of first contact, NMC were able to mobilise its Southern team to complete line marking works at the NHS Nightingale Hospital, Birmingham. The lines create the emergency parking bays for the ambulances bringing critical patients to the new 500-bed hospital at entrance to the National Exhibition Centre.The hospital, fully operational in just two days, will initially hold 496 beds divided into four wards, with the potential to be immediately increased to 800 if needed. The hospital can also be massively scaled up in phases if infection rates worsen across the region, with a second phase of up to 2,000 beds and a worst-case third phase, up to 4,000 beds and NMC are on hand to assist at every stage should we be required. NMC have asked CBRE to donate the funds for this project to the NHS Charity.

Bryson

Bryson, a leading importer, manufacturer and distributor of fixings, temporary protection and safety products, supplied essential supplies including PPE and hygiene products to the contractors working on the NHS Nightingale Hospital in London and were actively involved in supporting the critical care field hospitals in Birmingham and Manchester. During this challenging time Bryson continue to stay open for essential supplies including PPE, hygiene products and other much-needed materials with next day and same day delivery to help in the fight against COVID-19, with special priority to NHS and care providers throughout the UK. 
 

Kingspan

Kingspan has supplied roof and wall panels, structural systems, insulation boards and building services solutions to key NHS projects across the UK, helping these facilities to be made active quickly and efficiently, ready to provide crucial care. Projects have included isolation and intensive care units for hospitals in Cardiff, Norfolk, Norwich, Guilford and King’s Lynn, temporary hospital facilities in Birmingham, Swansea and Harrogate and several different medical supply logistic centres and manufacturing plants. Kingspan insulated panels have also been used to create vital vaccine development and testing facilities in Harwell and Belfast. Additionally, Kingspan Insulated Panel’s Coldstore business has been supporting a number of fast-tracked projects relating to the cold food supply chain classified as critical infrastructure by the Government, helping to meet the increased demand for food production, storage and distribution.