Southmead Hospital,
Bristol NHS Trust
Ridge has been involved in many projects for the Bristol NHS Trust, ranging from car park extensions through temporary offices to theatres and refurbishment and extensions of major hospitals.
Ridge is called on at regular intervals to provide initial cost advice to assess the feasibility of schemes. For the majority of cases, Ridge has provided quantity surveyor services with programme and procurement support to the Trust’s in-house managers; recently, this has been extended to the provision of project management, design and CDMC services.
The Trust puts great emphasis on budgetary control and therefore there needs to be accurate cost reporting as well as good communication with the Trust on all aspects of the budget even beyond construction costs.
- Pathology Department: At Southmead, Pathology will be relocated whilst a new Department is built (target 2012).
- Mortuary Viewing Rooms: New Viewing Rooms to the Mortuary: The Mortuaries are in subsidiary buildings at both Frenchay and Southmead Hospitals and the schemes will provide landscaping to the adjacent spaces forming gardens.
- Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit: Refurbishment of existing ward, consulting rooms and bereavement/parents rooms together with a new first floor of Consultants and Administration offices sited on an existing, adjacent, single storey building. Programme duration – 24 weeks.
- Southmead Hospital Car Park: Ridge was originally asked to comment upon proposals for a number of extensions and upgrades to the existing car parking provision. Following the suggested negotiation with a local contractor, where Ridge led the programming and price agreement, the Works were commenced on site incorporating a number of phases to ensure that the overall number of spaces on the site was not reduced at any time. Further works were accommodated within the Contract to extend the overall number of car parking spaces to 335.
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