Context

Custom-built canopies from Broxap offer protection for patients and staff from ambulance drop-off zones to the treatment bays and wards at the Grange University Hospital in Llanfrechfa, which was built mid-pandemic using modern methods of construction to significantly reduce the on-site build time.

Contractor Laing O'Rourke Construction and property and construction consultant Gleeds recommended the use of off-site manufacturing for elements of the build, reducing the duration of the project by 23%.

Project detail

Broxap was sub-contracted to design, manufacture and install a number of made-to-measure canopies for the hospital.

This included a Newcastle monopitch canopy superstructure, manufactured to almost 42m long, creating a drop-off zone to serve up to eight ambulances at the ER department.

A St John Fisher monopitch canopy structure was created for a separate, non-emergency ambulance pick-up and drop-off point.

The BREEAM Excellent rated project made provision for external undercover cycle storage as part of its green travel plan.

Broxap came up with a design based on the Coventry gullwing canopy, with parking space for about 100 bikes, which it installed at the front of the building.

A total of seven Derby stainless steel round litter bins, and seven Derby stainless steel round recycling bins were also supplied as well as a number of door barriers.