The new Radiotherapy Unit building provides ground floor treatment rooms including 4 linear accelerator bunkers, MRI scanner suites, CT scanner suites, and plain x-ray, as well as first and second floor offices and respite care, bed wards and isolation suites.
The project involved a new build unit to complement and enhance the existing brownfield hospital site. The scope of works completed by our team included the supply, installation, testing, and commissioning of all electrical systems. The new units consists of a 6 floor structure with services, a plant area, car parking for staff and patients, ambulance drop of point, Electrical LV and HV rooms, a new Radiotherapy unit with Linear Accelerator Bunkers and MRI scanner suites, refurbished and extended Chemotherapy area, Radiotherapy Bed area, admin area and roof top plant rooms.
There were a number of critical factors to the project, not least coordination of the site team which was no mean feat; at the peak of works we had over 140 operatives on site, which included 60 electricians. The unit required a high level of specialist installations in complex rooms, which included 3no linear accelerator bunkers, an MRI scan room, CT simulator room, CT Scanner, Superficial treatment room, X-ray rooms and Isolation rooms. Not only did we have to adhere to highly complex specifications of the equipment suppliers but we also had to comply with specific Health Technical Memoranda (HTMs) design guides which dictated the highest standard of commissioning.
David Algie, Associate Director (ARUP)
Dowds workmanship is without doubt the best I have seen and even a week from handover any remaining snags were either already actioned if not well underway. The coordination on the Altnagelvin was top drawer - no doubt we wouldn’t have got there without the professionalism, hard work and effort of Dowds Group.
