Client:  Health Service Executive
Contract Value:  €6.0m
Stage:  Completed
Start/Completion Date:  2015 - 2021

Hayes Higgins Partnership has provided full Civil & Structural Engineering Services for the new 1,030m2 Mortuary & Post-Mortem Building at University Hospital Waterford (UHW) campus, to our client the Health Service Executive (HSE) - provided modern facilities to serve the people of Waterford & the South-East region. In order to create the appropriate environment for visitors during solemn times, the project has been met with a mindful architectural solution that includes a distinguished multi-faith prayer curved room, with canopied external receiving area. Visiting public areas also include a walled courtyard, and a number of sensitively designed viewing rooms which aim to provide comforting and respectful atmospheres suitable for the various end of life processes, which the building houses - and were developed in-line with the HSE & Irish Hospice Foundation ‘Design & Dignity’ Guidelines. The areas also benefit from a number of installed artworks commissioned for the building, by the Waterford Healing Arts Trust.

The new build facilitated support flexibility in service delivery aspects, and contributed to operational effectiveness and efficiency. We ensured that air quality, lighting quality and noise reduction levels shall exceed standards for the building purpose. Maximum use of natural lighting and ventilation applied, particularly in areas having continuous or regular occupancy.

Awards
We were delighted to learn that New Mortuary & Post-Mortem Building at University Hospital Waterford project, has been nominated for a 2022 Irish Concrete Society Award, which took place in March 2022.

Client:  Health Service Executive
Contract Value:  €20.0m
Stage:  Completed
Start/Completion Date:  2015 - 2021

Hayes Higgins Partnership (2HP) has provided full Civil & Structural Engineering Services for the new Renal Dialysis Unit at Tallaght Hospital. This project involved the construction on a new Renal Dialysis Unit on top of the new Emergency Department extension. The new two-storey extension is the second largest dialysis unit in the country. The new facility encompassed a spectrum of renal care services namely:

• Maintenance Haemodialysis Services - 28 Stations
• Inpatient Haemodialysis Support to the Hospital - 5 Station Acute/Isolation Unit
• Home Therapies (Peritoneal Dialysis & Home Haemodialysis)
• Self-care Haemodialysis Unit - 4 Stations
• Plasmapheresis Service

Comprising circa gross 1,900m2. This project was an ‘Acute Hospital’ project which is defined in the Information Memorandum of the Framework Document as a healthcare facility catering for tertiary and secondary healthcare services with in-patient and out-patient facilities.

Tymon North Community Nursing Home, Tallaght, Dublin 24

This large-scale project is a state-of-the-art facility consisting of the construction of a new 8,000m2 3 storey Community Nursing Unit with the capacity for 100 beds. The development was completed in 2019 and comprises of en-suite bedrooms, day rooms, dining rooms, activity and therapy rooms, staff support rooms, a central large commercial kitchen, new vehicular & pedestrian site entrance off Tymon North Road, perimeter fencing and a car park located at the front of the building.

The new facility at Tymon North has already significantly enhanced the level of services available to older people who need long term care in South Dublin

Claremorris Primary Care Centre

The Claremorris Primary Care Centre was constructed under NDFA Primary Care Centres PPP Programme with the remit of allowing the public to have easy access to an increased range of services based in the one location. It now offers accommodation for GPs, Mental Health Services, Public Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Psychology, Speech and Language Therapy, Chiropody, Dietitian, Dental and Primary Care Counselling. Since opening, the Centre has greatly enhanced the delivery of health services in both the towns and the surrounding areas.

Westport Primary Care Centre

The Westport Primary Care Centre was constructed under NDFA Primary Care Centres PPP Programme with the remit of allowing the public to have easy access to an increased range of services based in the one location. It now offers accommodation for GPs, Mental Health Services, Public Health Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Psychology, Speech and Language Therapy, Chiropody, Dietitian, Dental and Primary Care Counselling. Since opening, the Centre has greatly enhanced the delivery of health services in both the towns and the surrounding area

Sacred Heart Nursing Home, Castlebar

This large scale project consisted of the demolition of 2 No. wards blocks and associated link corridors and the construction of a 2 storey Community Nursing Unit with 74 beds. The kitchen, laundry and waste compounds to the rear of the unit were also refurbished with the construction of a new medical gas and vacuum enclosure with generator. The mechanical and electrical services for the new 2 storey building was connected to the existing power and heat circuits over the roof of the existing single storey structures. The Unit remained live and fully operational throughout the works which included some out of hours work to ensure that ongoing activities were not affected throughout the construction period.

The development also included the provision of two lifts, mechanical and electrical installations; internal alterations to the kitchen and laundry; modifications to the existing perimeter road to the east of the site; reduction in car parking spaces located between the two wards at the south east of the site from 31 to 18 spaces; alterations to existing site services (water supply and foul and surface water drainage) and provision of Sustainable Urban Drainage systems; associated hard and soft landscaping; and all other associated site excavation and site development works above and below ground.

MRI Unit at Tullamore

The Midland Regional Hospital in Tullamore is a modern live acute hospital campus and the new MRI unit now caters for acutely ill patients from the 3No. existing midland hospitals. The project consisted of a new MRI scanner, control room, Tech room, plant room, coms room, five bay recovery area, anaesthetic prep area, three ultrasound rooms, consultants offices, waiting areas, changing areas and reception area.

The MRI & Ultrasound Department is attached to the side of the existing X-Ray & CT department and below the operating theaters. The project consisted of five different tie in points and also remodeling of the existing hospital corridors. All M&E services also had to be tied into the existing hospital services. The chilled water had to be brought from the existing roof plant room to the MRI plant room in order to serve the new MRI scanner. Significant existing services had to be diverted prior to any construction works commencing on site.