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The ‘Pride Project’ for NHS Northumberland Tyne and Wear was set up to improve mental health and dementia care inpatient facilities for people living in Sunderland and South Tyneside. The £60 million capital project consisted of a new 122 bed hospital on the former Ryhope hospital site and a new 24-bed dementia care unit on the Monkwearmouth Hospital site in Sunderland. The new facilities needed an efficient and reliable heating and hot water system that…

A Mapei subfloor and tile installation system has been specified at The Crystal – Siemens’ iconic Sustainability Centre, located in East London’s Royal Docks. Designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects and Pringle Brandon Perkins+Will, the glass-clad structure is one of the world’s greenest buildings, achieving Outstanding BREEAM and Platinum LEED accreditation. Mapei systems contributed to the eco-specification and included Mapei Topcem screed and low VOC adhesives and grout – Keraquick, Keraflex and Ultracolor Plus. Corinthian Ceramics…

The UK’s largest and most complex modular building project to be built in the health sector has been handed over and opened on time despite a challenging programme. The new Women and Children’s Centre at North Middlesex University Hospital was constructed by principal contractor Kier Construction using a Yorkon off-site solution from the Portakabin Group. The £17.9m contract, which was procured under the ProCure21+ framework, involved the off-site manufacture of the building at the Portakabin…