Hospital fire curtains - installation at the Royal Victoria, Edinburgh

Modula Construction Challenge for BLE in Scotland’s Largest Commercial Building

The Victoria Hospital Edinburgh is a brand new hospital designed by Keppie Design currently being built on the site of the Western General Hospital and set to open in May 2012. It will be built with 100% single room accommodation and will also hold dermatology and rheumatology outpatient clinics which are currently held at other Lothian hospitals.
 

BLE Smoke & Fire Curtains has worked with the local building controller to create the smoke and fire protection in the new hospital. The building, which has cost £43.6m, is the largest commercial building in Scotland and has been specifically designed to meet the needs of elderly, rheumatology, and dermatology patients. There will be 147 beds in six wards each with their own en suite shower-room and toilet.
 

However, the real challenge for BLE was that all the wards were built in modules, including all the walls and electronic loops and wiring, which were made offsite and then transported in their entirety to the construction site. In addition, the sophisticated operating system had to allow staff to over-ride individual wards so that they could evacuate patients in an emergency. However, BLE was able to create a protected area plus a protected means of escape in every ward, with automatic fire curtains used throughout plus additional static curtains above to close off the ceiling void.
 

BLE have now completed the installation for all of the fire and smoke curtain installation. However, the team will be on hand to ensure that the Royal Victoria Hospital can start admitting patients in the summer of 2012, and that both staff and patients will be safely protected with the very latest fire curtain technology.
 

Download a PDF of our casestudy regarding the fire curtains installation in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Edinburgh.
 

For more information on this or any other fire curtain project, please email us or call 0114 251 4703.