A party of Chartered Institute Of Building (CIOB) members were given the opportunity to have a site tour of the new Pinderfields Hospital scheme on Saturday 16 May.

The £220m redevelopment of Pinderfields Hospital forms the major part of Balfour Beatty's £311m flagship Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospitals Development PPP Project, for Mid Yorkshire NHS Trust, and will be central to the reconfiguration of health services in the Wakefield area.

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The project will deliver a new in patient hospital on the existing Pinderfields Hospital site which will house 46 departments, 708 beds, of which 50% are single en-suite rooms, 1,839 car parking spaces and a stand alone new build Pathology building. State-of-the-art facilities include radiology, operating theatres, maternity, burns, rehabilitation, children's services, CCU, pathology, consultant's rooms and associated administrative offices.

Senior members of the site team hosted a tour of the site, and were able to show buildings at the various stages of construction. Particular interest was shown in the use of modular construction and pre-fabrication techniques employed in order to meet programme and quality requirements and more importantly the design led health and safety standards demanded from the site team.

(CD/JM)