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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

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Axis Stanley Dura-Care doors for Spire Hartswood Hospital

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Axis Spire Hartswood 4435 aFive Stanley Dura-Care 7500 telescopic sliding doors have been installed by Axis Automatic Entrance Systems at the Spire Hartswood Private Hospital in Brentwood Essex.  Halliday Meecham Architects were looking to replace timber doors on the 5 patient “pods” used in the recovery area for day-case procedures. The previous doors restricted access for moving beds in and out of the rooms and also created a very closed and detached environment. While researching alternatives they found the Stanley Dura-Care door range featured on the Axis Automatic Entrance Systems website. The fully glazed doors create a much brighter and attractive ambience in the recovery rooms and the breakout facility makes moving beds around much easier. Four of the doors  consist of one fixed leaf 765mm wide and two sliding leaves that combine to give a clear opening of 1450mm in a full width of 2215mm. The fifth door is slightly smaller but of similar proportions.

Axis Spire Hartswood 4439 aThe Stanley Dura-Care 7500 is a manual sliding door system designed to meet the specific needs of hospital intensive and cardiac care units (ICU/CCU). This telescopic door is available in 3 or 6 panel packages and those installed at Spire Hartswood Hospital feature emergency breakout on the leading sliding leaf, positive latching and are a trackless design to provide completely unimpeded access.  The 6.4mm laminated glass panels have made the whole area much brighter and lighter and are proving very popular with patients and staff alike compared to the previous unglazed doors. Frosted film has been applied to parts of the glass to give privacy without reducing the overall brightness.

Project Manager Kevin Hill of M&O Building Contractors was also impressed with the service provided by Axis, particularly the way problems were overcome and the final completion date strictly adhered to.

Axis Spire Hartswood 4474 aSpire Hartswood Private Hospital, Brentwood, Essex is part of the Spire Healthcare hospital network that offers a comprehensive range of private hospital services. With a catchment area covering Brentwood, Billericay, Basildon, Romford and surrounding areas of Essex and East London, Spire Hartswood offers NHS “Choose and Book” services plus a range of treatments and procedures to insured and self-funding patients. The hospital holds the Macmillan Quality Environment Charter Mark for chemotherapy and breast care pathways.

The Stanley Dura-Care range of ICU/CCU doors offers a selection of sliding, swing, folding and bi-folding door configurations. They have all been designed to maximise clear space openings and have many features ideal for healthcare environments including smoke and draft controls, positive/negative pressure environments and anti-microbial protection. Electronic privacy glass can be fitted that instantly turns from clear to opaque with the flick of a switch for patient privacy.

Stanley are the world’s leading automatic door manufacturer and Axis Automatic Entrance Systems are the sole UK distributor of Stanley automatic door equipment. Axis offers a wide range of automatic and manual doors suitable for clean room or healthcare environments including the multi-award winning Flo-Motion® Manual Sliding Doors that were originally developed for the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital but are now installed in a number of hospitals throughout the UK and Ireland.

For further information call 01604 212500, email sales@axisautomatic.com or visit www.axisautomatic.com