New Palliative Care Unit
Location: Bronglais General Hospital, Aberystwyth
Client: Ceredigion and Mid Wales NHS Trust
Architect: Gareth Lewis Penseiri
Contract Value: £273,200.00
Duration: 26 weeks
Welsh Health Minister Brian Gibbons said: "These excellent new facilities will greatly enhance the care and quality of life not only for those patients suffering with terminal conditions, but also their carers."
Contract Details
The work involved the dismantling of two old portakabin type buildings in the main car park of the hospital and the construction of a purposely designed building to provide care to improve the quality of life of patients who have a serious or life-threatening disease.Site Difficulties
The site was positioned in the far corner of the hospital main car park, our compound took over fifteen car park spaces to which the hospital could not afford to lose, because of the location of the site all deliveries had to be carefully guided through the car park in order not to hit any other vehicle in the car park, during the excavation process, banksmen were positioned in strategic places along the route from the site to the main road in order to keep the disruption of the flow of traffic travelling through the car park to a minimum.
The two-storey unit includes therapy and counselling rooms and a library and was funded by the National Lottery, the Rotary Club and an appeal fund.