Leisure, Healthcare & Communal Buildings

Polymer-based systems provider REHAU is supplying its cable management systems to the largest PFI/PPP hospital redevelopment programme in the UK. The £1 billion construction project will see new centres of excellence for Cancer and Cardiac care developed at St Bart’s Hospital, while The London Hospital will be largely rebuilt to house the city’s largest emergency and trauma centre, which will have the London Air Ambulance operating from its roof.

Contractor, Skanska, recently received the UK Sustainable Procurement Award for it part in the project and enlisted REHAU on the basis of the quality and ease of installation of its trunking systems and for its performance on previous successful Skanska contracts at BSF school projects in Slough and Midlothian.

REHAU’s COMPACT data 140 x 50mm and PROFILA data 180 x 65mm cable management systems were chosen for the project and more than 20,000 metres of the PVC power and data trunking systems will be installed.

Skanska, has requested that REHAU provide a mix of white and brown PROFILA data and COMPACT data trunking for the hospital reception areas and under nurse base stations to match the overall design scheme. REHAU therefore extruded the brown trunking at its dedicated production facility in North Wales in the RAL colour specified by the Skanska Infrastructure Development team. REHAU has also designed special trunking bends in the same RAL colour to facilitate staff wheelchair access beneath reception and nurse station desks.

All of the trunking has been approved for installation by Skanska Connect, who are managing the IT installation for the project. Both COMPACT data and PROFILA data are approved for use with a variety of Cat 6, 6a or even Cat 7 wiring modules and incorporate innovative features such as adjustable depth socket boxes and flexible internal and external corners.

In line with Skanska’s environmental policy, REHAU is supplying the trunking to a Construction Consolidation Centre from where it is being delivered to the sites on an ‘as required’ basis to minimise waste and prevent stock build up.