Healthcare & Retirement
Growing capacity and increasing access. From secondary to primary care, Thomas Vale is deeply involved in healthcare infrastructure.
The pressure is on to increase capacity in secondary and primary care, to expand patient choice and improve access and service delivery.
With NHS statistics revealing that patient environments can significantly improve the healing process, the importance of working with the right design and build team is more evident than ever.
Through a good understanding of the GP, Doctor and Procurement perspective we have been able to deliver new facilities which meet national targets without compromising local needs.
Primary Care Lift Project, Shelton, Stoke on Trent
Regeneration of an inner city brownfield site, adjacent to the Cauldon Canal, to provide a new state of the art Primary Care Centre. The three-storey construction combines three local Doctor’s Surgeries and also provides an integral Pharmacy Facility.
The project is on programme and all parties to the contract are very satisfied with our performance
Contract Value: £4,365,000
Procure 21
Demolition of an existing Primary School including asbestos removal. The main build was a traditional construction of strip foundations, brick/blockwork superstructure with beam and block ground floor and PCC planks to the first floor level, the roof was split at three levels. Firstly at two storey level over the accommodation there was a metsec curved roof, the link at ground floor level was a traditional pitch roof and finally the reception/treatment area at a high level ground floor was mono pitch Parralam timber construction. All roof finishes was kalzip with an aluminium bull nose eaves detail.
The building consisted of 20 bedrooms with on-suite and nurse call assistance, consulting suites for doctors/nurses/physio and meetings, offices, ADL kitchens, full catering kitchen, dining/day space area, physio room, staff room and reception area including all ancillary rooms. The project was unique as it was the first intermediate care facility to be built in the UK (Under the P21 Scheme).
Contract Value: £2,100,000
The Surgery, Goring on Thames
The project consisted of a single storey extension to create three new consulting rooms and a new health visitors consultation room, constructed with traditional strip foundations; beam and block floor, brick/block cavity wall, timber roof trusses and clay roof tiles, ensuring all materials complimented the existing building. The staff car park was also extended to provide seven new spaces.
Further works involved alterations to provide the existing building with a larger staff rest room, a new interview room and an office for the Practice Manager, renovating works to the dispensary and patient toilet and replacement carpets throughout. It was essential that internal works were carried out during surgery ‘quiet times’ to ensure minimum disruptions
Contract Value: £182,000
Sunnyside Nursing Home, Iver
This multi phased project comprises extensions to the rear, east and west side of the building to provide new two and three storey bedrooms and a new single storey garden room. In addition, areas within the main building were altered to form new day rooms and offices. Externally, works involved modifications to the car park, new access roads and associated drainage and services.
Contract Value: £1,800,000
