Client:	Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children
Architect:	Cullen Payne Architects
Contract value:	€21m
Description:
Construction and fit out of seven new cardio vascular operating theatres within the “live” Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin, Dublin. The €16m project also included intensive care units and associated sterile departments.
Key Features:
Work on the construction of this new wing had to be carried out in the environment of a working hospital campus and the maintenance of a hygienic, sterile environment had to be maintained in the adjacent operating hospital and involved the following: Link to existing Intensive Care Unit and Sterilisation Unit was constructed, whilst maintaining Client occupancy. Integration of building within hospital service infrastructure with particular reference to working on the live MV Hospital electrical infrastructure, which involved working on high tension electrical cables. Substantial additions from the existing boiler bringing high pressure steam mains to the HSSD Unit (Hospital Sterile Service Department). Work was carried out efficiently with a high degree of co-ordination and co-operation with the facility management and medical staff of the existing property. During this period, it was necessary to ensure that the Nasocomial Aspergillasis was prevented from spreading into the working areas of the existing hospital. As can be seen, a high standard of finishes and efficient development was completed

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