A joint initiative between Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, and Moorfields Eye Charity, Oriel will see services move from their current location near Old Street to the new integrated centre. ‘As a specialist contractor with vast experience in controlled environments’, Norwood says it will deliver the cleanroom architectural package, and elements of mechanical and electrical scope. Its expert team will – it says – ‘also play a pivotal role in supporting the commissioning and validation of this critical healthcare space’.
Norwood’s scope includes installing demountable cleanroom partitions featuring integrated vision panels, low-level extract, pass-through hatches, coving, a walk-on ceiling, and doors – all prefabricated at its Manchester manufacturing facility.
The company said: “Fully compliant with healthcare regulatory standards, the demountable system ensures rapid and clean installation, minimising on-site health and safety risks while offering sustainability advantages through its recyclable and reusable design. This modular and adaptable system allows the hospital to easily reconfigure the space as future needs arise.”
“We are thrilled to contribute to such a groundbreaking project and to once again collaborate with Bouygues UK,” said Josh Bannister, MD at Norwood. “Building on the success of our partnership at the Ray Dolby Centre at Cambridge University, it’s exciting to see modular, high-performance systems being embraced by the healthcare sector for specialised, future-ready environments.”
The new centre will harness the expertise of the partners under one roof, ‘enabling closer collaborative working between clinicians and researchers to speed up the delivery of the highest quality treatments and therapies for patients’.
Neil Pixsley, Project director at Bouygues UK, said: “We’re looking forward to building on our successful partnership with Norwood for the cleanroom at Oriel. Its innovative approach to modular panelling systems will be instrumental in creating a flexible healthcare environment that meets the needs of the clinicians and researchers that will be based here.”