{"id":82220,"date":"2020-09-09T12:30:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T11:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=82220"},"modified":"2020-09-09T12:30:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T11:30:19","slug":"nightingale-hospital-exeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/nightingale-hospital-exeter\/82220\/","title":{"rendered":"Modular buildings installed at Nightingale Hospital Exeter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Premier Modular<\/a> has provided modular buildings spanning more than 1700 sqm for the new Nightingale Hospital Exeter, completed in just four weeks<\/h2>\n

The integrated modular buildings<\/a> were supplied site-ready to accommodate essential facilities for the new hospital operated by the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust.<\/p>\n

Working as a partner to BAM Construct UK<\/a> and to a significantly reduced build programme, Premier designed, reconfigured and installed five single-storey modular buildings comprising 57 steel-framed modules. This scale of the project would typically have taken around four months from receipt of order to handover.<\/p>\n

The temporary buildings have doubled the size of the existing space in a repurposed retail unit and were fitted out on-site by BAM to accommodate facilities including the pharmacy, staff welfare, catering, utility rooms, patient transfer and stores.<\/p>\n

The 116-bed hospital is designed to provide high-quality specialist care for seriously ill coronavirus patients in Devon, Cornwall and the wider South West region. It will also provide additional capacity by delivering safe and fast access to diagnostic testing.<\/p>\n

The hiring of modular accommodation<\/a> is a fast, flexible and cost-effective way for healthcare providers to expand capacity or relocate services, particularly on constrained hospital sites. The approach also gives NHS trusts greater flexibility as the facilities can be dismantled and removed if local needs change.<\/p>\n