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Axis opens doors for the new Emergency Department at Walsall Manor Hospital

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INDUSTRY: Healthcare

CLIENT: Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

CONTRACTOR: Tilbury Douglas Construction

ARCHITECT: BDP

LOCATION: Urgent & Emergency Care Centre Walsall Manor Hospital

PROJECT: A new Urgent & Emergency Care Centre for Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, at Walsall Manor Hospital. This £40m two-storey facility provides the Trust with 4,864m2 of additional clinical space and will help meet local demand, caring for up to 90,000 urgent admissions per year. Axis’s brief for this new, high-quality, modern development was to provide and install doors for the Treatment Room, Consulting Bays, and Key Entrances of this brand-new facility.

 

CHALLENGES: Our challenge was the space constraints to maximise usable areas, while fulfilling the requirements of the different door openings.

SOLUTION: Our solution for the Key Entrances (Main Entrance, Ambulance Entrance and the Entrance between the Rapid Assessment & Treatment and Resuscitation departments) included five Doorson Automatic Telescopic Door Sets – three sets of Doorson Bi-parting DR300TBP and two sets of Doorson Single DR300T. To meet the requirements for airtightness, hygiene, space-saving, and ease of access to the Treatment Room, our solution was a Manusa Hermetic Door. Automatic for hygiene and ease of access, and sliding for space-saving, the Manusa also offers various operational modes to suit specific needs and can be specifically design-adapted to best suit each space. For the Consulting Bays we designed and installed 14 sets of our own, award-winning FLO-MOTION® Telescopic Manual Sliding Doors – Type T55. Each sets’ two sliding leaves are connected by a sequencing device so that the primary leaf (fast door) reaches the fully opened or closed position at the same time as the secondary leaf (slow door) reaches its pre-set position.

 

OUTCOME: The brand new Urgent & Emergency Care Centre at Walsall Manor Hospital provides several significant benefits for patients and staff, including:

  • More efficient and effective working
  • A lighter and more spacious department
  • Improved patient experience
  • Improved working environment for staff

“BDP has worked with Axis on several projects because of its high-quality products, which provide all key requirements such as visibility and ease of operation. For this project, Axis also offered professional support, taking onboard the project’s needs, ensuring a robust specification from concept design through to bespoke detailing, meeting the high standards expected in a healthcare environment.”

Leigh-Anne Schofield, Architect Associate at BDP

Axis installs Flo-Motion doors in Catfoss modular ITU building at Northampton General Hospital

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INDUSTRY: Healthcare

CLIENT: NHS Trust – Northampton General Hospital

CONTRACTOR: Catfoss

 

PROJECT:

To develop a new state-of-the-art Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) at Northampton General Hospital. Axis had a key role, devising a solution capable of providing flexible space with options of a light and open environment for better communication between staff to manage problems with patients more effectively, but also with the option to isolate spaces for patient privacy, when required.

CHALLENGES:

There were a few challenges on this project, all of which we overcame without compromising on design
and quality. The challenges included:

  • The overall project’s tight deadlines
  • The limited footprint of the site
  • Maintaining noise and dust controls within a working hospital

SOLUTION:

Axis designed and installed our own, award-winning FLO-MOTION® DOORS, the extra low friction manual sliding door system.

The full width and height doors are fabricated using extruded aluminium profiles and the frame includes a reinforced transom bar to support the track system. The system features recirculating ball cassettes that run on a low resistance linear track with a damper mechanism at the fully opened and closed positions. The limited contact between the bearings and the track enables the doors to be opened and closed effortlessly.

The sliding doors and the accompanying full height glazed screens were double glazed incorporating interstitial blinds. The blinds are operated by a slide magnet for ‘tilt and turn’ functions offering either visibility or privacy.

OUTCOME:

The new ITU department provides several significant benefits for patients and staff, including:

  • More efficient and effective working
  • A more spacious department with more natural light
  • Providing staff and patients with better visibility of each other
  • Better patient experience

 

Axis Entrance Systems Case Study: Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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INDUSTRY: Healthcare

CLIENT: Willmott Dixon for Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

ARCHITECT: ADP

PROJECT:

To extend and refurbish the Luton and Dunstable University Hospital’s Emergency Department.

This £14.5 million project included the creation of a new entrance into the healthcare facility to provide the local community with greater accessibility to quality care and critical services.

CHALLENGES:

The main challenge facing Axis and the other contractors onsite was working within and around a live environment with the emergency department remaining operational throughout the project.

To help facilitate this tricky scenario, an internal link tunnel was created to enable the safe movement of staff and patients between buildings for the duration of the works.

SOLUTION:

The design of the doors needed to be perfectly in keeping with fresh, modern, and dynamic overall design of this frontline clinical environment.

Our solution for the doors was our own, award- winning, FLO-MOTION® DOORS – the extra low- friction, manual sliding door system that can be opened and closed with fingertip control.

Our FLO-MOTION® DOORS further fulfilled the brief by helping create bright, light treatment bays with options of good visibility or privacy. To achieve this, we fitted each door with interstitial blinds set within the glass for the visibility/privacy option.

The full width and height glass doors, which we fabricate using extruded aluminium profiles, include a self-supporting ‘goalpost’ frame, and feature recirculating ball guides on a low resistance linear track with damper mechanism.

OUTCOME:

The new, extended, and refurbished emergency department at provides several significant benefits, including:

• A safer, brighter, more flexible working environment
• More space for patients, staff, and much-needed facilities • Greater visibility between staff and patients
• Enhanced patient and staff experience

Axis Entrance Systems Case Study: Logan Construction for St George’s Hospital

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IR St Georges (40)INDUSTRY: Healthcare

CLIENT: Logan Construction for St George’s Hospital

ARCHITECT: Hunters

PROJECT:

The conversion and refurbishment of existing offices into a new interventional radiology department, consisting of; six enclosed recovery bays, a nurses’ station, and an accessible toilet.

CHALLENGES:

IR St Georges (59)For this project Axis and the other contractors on site had the dual challenges of working within a ‘live’ hospital environment and the necessity for strict compliance with COVID-19 safeguards.

Maintaining noise, dust, and vibration controls in this ‘live’ hospital environment were vital throughout the project and epitomised by the fact that there was an operating theatre in constant use, on the floor above, directly over the new recovery bays.

SOLUTION:

IR St Georges (79) - CopyAxis was asked to help create bright, light recovery bays with options of good visibility or privacy, and the flexibility to separate each bay from surrounding bays and communal areas, to enhance COVID-19 safeguards, in this frontline healthcare environment.

Our solution for the doors was our own, award-winning, FLO-MOTION® DOORS – the extra low-friction, manual sliding door system.

The full width and height glass doors, which we fabricate using extruded aluminium profiles, include a self-supporting ‘goalpost’ frame, and feature recirculating ball guides on a low resistance linear track with damper mechanism. The doors can be opened and closed with fingertip control.

Each door for this project was fitted with interstitial blinds set within the glass for the visibility/privacy option.

“Logan undertook several projects at St George’s Hospital with a challenging programme and key to the successful delivery of these schemes were the sliding doors from Axis. Their professional approach from start to conclusion is recognised and it ensured these projects were concluded on time, to a high standard and in a commercially attractive manner. We look forward to working with Axis on future schemes.” Kevin Farr, Senior Surveyor

OUTCOME:

The new recovery unit has provided several significant benefits, including:

• A safer, brighter, more spacious, and flexible working environment
• Providing staff and patients with better visibility of each other
• Greatly enhanced patient experience

T: 01604 212500 W: www.axisentrances.com

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