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The new critical care facility at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is a major and exciting development that offers patients, patient families and clinicians new state-of-the-art facilities for a critical care environment. JCA was part of the professional team assigned to designing and creating this complex project. 

The expansion and redevelopment of the adult intensive care (ICU) and neonatal intensive care (NICU) facilities was specifically designed to create a patient-focused environment to support optimal healing. These benefits include but are not limited to: 

• Maximising daylight for the patients with extensive views of the city using full-height thermal comfort glazing 
• Large bed spaces with carefully considered ceiling mounted articulated arms and monitoring facilities 

• Glass has replaced curtains to improve noise reduction and privacy 
• Improved relative facilities 
• Additional cot spaces 
• Upgraded burns unit environmental systems 
• Centralised 24 hours critical care engineering systems offering flexible, maintainable systems with minimal maintenance impact in patient areas 

The facilities will provide life-saving care to 1,000 babies each year and enable the treatment of more than 650 additional critically ill patients annually. The project will improve the facilities for 2,000 patients every year.

JCA overcame complex engineering challenges to design a solution to facilitate central engineering upgrades whilst ensuring there is no impact to the usual day to day running of the hospital during the construction works and to provide a phased handover and sectional completion of areas. 

The first two phases of the ICU were opened by April 2020, to be able to treat the increased number of patients being cared for due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Vital engineering design changes were made to the scheme in terms of ventilation and infection control to meet the requirements of hospitalised Covid-19 patients. The final phase of the project was completed in June 2021, handed over to the client and currently in use. 

David Butcher, Director of Estates and Facilities at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust, said: “This project was a complex major scheme in a central London hospital that needed architectural and engineering design capability of the highest standard. There were many design and technical challenges to overcome as this involved a phased refurbishment in a live central London hospital. The entire professional and construction team needed to work closely with clinicians to provide a design that can be built in a properly planned and methodical manner with minimal impact to the usual day to day running of the hospital. This critical care project provides a facility that the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital are very proud of.” 

To find out how this project will help saving more lives, head over to Transforming Critical Care at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.

To find out more about JCA’s design capabilities, visit our Professional Services page.

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The JCA design team is part of the professional team assigned to designing and creating the new critical care (ICU) facility at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.

JCA worked extensively and thoroughly engaged with the management team at the Trust, together with the clinicians and design team, with a view to deliver a new ‘class leading’ expanded adult (ICU) intensive care unit.

This is a major and exciting development within the hospital that offers patients, patient families and clinicians new state-of-the-art facilities for a critical care environment.

These benefits include but are not limited to the following:

• Maximising daylight for the patients with extensive views of the city using full height thermal comfort glazing
• Large bed spaces with carefully considered ceiling mounted articulated arms and monitoring facilities
• Glass will replace curtains to improve noise reduction and privacy
• Improved relative facilities
• Upgraded burns unit environmental systems
• Centralised 24 hours critical care engineering systems offering flexible, maintainable systems with minimal maintenance impact in patient areas

JCA overcame complex engineering challenges to design a solution to facilitate upgraded central engineering upgrades whilst ensuring there is no impact to the usual day to day running of the hospital during the construction works and to provide a phased handover and sectional completion of areas. The engineering specified throughout the scheme uses modern, energy efficient and dynamic controlled environmental and lighting management systems.

David Butcher, Director of Estates and Facilities at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust, said: “This project is a complex major scheme in a central London hospital that needed engineering design capability of the highest standard with a team capable of working closely with clinicians to provide a design that can be built in a properly planned and methodical manner with minimal impact to the usual day to day running of the hospital.”

Phase 1 of the project is completed, handed over to the client and currently in use.

World FM Day, initiated by Global FM, is an international celebration of the importance of the FM profession. Its aim is to raise the profile of facilities management around the world and those involved in shaping and influencing the health, safety, productivity and well-being of people utilising the built environment. It highlights how facilities management plays an integral role in enabling positive customer, client and employee experience in all sectors, whether that’s residential, leisure, entertainment, retail, healthcare or any other. It also facilitates global knowledge sharing to promote the FM profession, and allows facilities management professionals to reflect on their achievements over the past year and celebrate each other’s successes.

As a leading M&E maintenance provider, we fully understand the importance of facilities management professionals and the role they play in often complex environments, ensuring that end users receive world class service. We are proud to be part of this by providing seamless and client-tailored M&E maintenance services.

We take time to understand each of our client’s unique requirements and tailor maintenance packages to suit each business’s individual needs. Our aim is to create strong relationships with the client’s FM teams based on mutual trust and understanding, as well as to provide first class customer experience.

World FM Day is a fantastic opportunity to discuss and share experiences and knowledge across the industry, to raise the awareness, promote the FM profession and celebrate the successes of the industry. This year’s theme is ‘Celebrating Global FM Standards’. At JCA we believe that collaborative engagement between FM teams and suppliers is not only beneficial but crucial in order to achieve a positive customer experience. This transparent and collaborative approach is a standard that we have set across the company and one that we believe should form part of our industry’s culture.

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