Cardiac Catheter Laboratory & Dialysis Unit

RCP helped to deliver an upgraded high-dependency dialysis unit and a new cardiac catheter laboratory for Middlemore Hospital. It is having a significant impact on the lives of more than 100 seriously unwell people each week. 

The project features a two-level addition to the existing Scott building and includes a reinforced concrete slab-on-grade steel structure with precast concrete panels. The building footprint has also been extended to provide additional space to the existing dialysis unit. 

It was an ambitious project, not least because construction was rolled out inside a live hospital and required integration with the existing facilities. RCP provided a ‘bridge’ between the contractor’s programme and the hospital’s clinical requirements. It also provided significant input to staging and sequencing the works – more than 20 stages were coordinated within the hospital environment. 

Then the pandemic hit. The team had to maintain the programme amid COVID restrictions. It meant that the sequencing and staging had to be recalibrated daily to meet the demands of isolation rooms and COVID-positive patients.