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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.

JCA is pleased to announce that we have achieved Gold in the internationally-renowned RoSPA Health and Safety Awards 2020.

The winning of the RoSPA Gold Award for the third consecutive year is a testament to the great culture and commitment that JCA has an organisation towards health and safety.

In 2019 JCA was also awarded the coveted RoSPA Health at Work Award, a specialist major trophy presented to entrants demonstrating the best management of Health at Work and a true and obvious dedication to the welfare of all the staff.

Safety on sites

Our culture of safety first ensures that the highest standards of safety are adopted on all sites to protect our teams, clients, subcontractors and the general public from risk and harm.

At JCA we have a proactive approach to safety inspections which are carried out by all management levels to continually enhance the safety culture within the business. All our subcontractors are vetted through Alcamus SafeContractor scheme to demonstrate commitment to sustainable and ethical practices.

Employee training and wellbeing

At JCA we value the health and wellbeing of all our employees and we want to provide them with the best possible working environment.

Our Core Health & Safety Training is licenced by IOSH and we are on the IOSH data base of approved training providers. We ensure all personnel are continually up to date with latest information available.

We also support and welcome work experience students to provide them with a valuable insight into ‘work within a working environment’.

As part of our continued development of JCA’s culture towards health and wellbeing in the workplace, we invited JCA employees across the business to volunteer to become Health and Wellbeing (HWB) Champions. The Champions help implement and support wellbeing and mental health as well as the ongoing programme at JCA, through raising awareness of wellbeing, promoting healthy lifestyles and positive mental health. We also have trained Mental Health First Aiders and use external providers for specialist referrals.

JCA will be officially presented with the RoSPA Gold Award during the official RoSPA Awards Presentation in London on Tuesday, September 8.

To find out more about how we manage our health and safety, quality and environment, visit our HSQE page or get in touch by emailing us at info@jca.co.uk

At JCA the health and wellbeing of our employees, clients, subcontractors and the public at large is of utmost importance. With this in mind, and given the current situation surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak, we have  introduced  temporary precautionary steps to our working operations that follow a week long trial of our working practices. 

Starting from Monday 23rd March 2020, every department based at our head office will be working in two split teams to ensure a degree of segregation in our head office resource. JCA remains fully operational and there will be a continued presence of JCA senior management and support teams at JCA’s head office at all times. JCA staff working from home have full remote working capability and access to JCA systems. 

As part of JCA guidance, our employees shall apply a level of social distancing and are encouraged to use software applications such as Microsoft Teams or conference calls in place of face-to-face meetings where practicably possible. Our employees are fully aware of the current requirements and we are working hard to ensure the levels of services delivered remain as high as always. 

These temporary precautionary steps have been implemented to mitigate any potential spread of the virus in order to enable us to continue to provide the usual service to our clients during this challenging period.  

If you require more detailed information on the steps being taken on your project or site, please get in touch with your Project / Contract Manager or email us at info@jca.co.uk  

We continue to monitor government guidance and, should it be required, will revise our plans and adapt accordingly. 

We would like to thank you for your understanding and assure you that we are doing our utmost to limit disruptions to a minimum.