Healthcare

building services engineering in the healthcare environment

Building services engineering in healthcare is often complex and involves the need to meet specific air changes to maintain positive/ negative pressures and ensure infrastructure and local resilience in supplies. Integrating various standalone systems such as theatre control panels and air handling units can prove very challenging. Our building services team are conversant with current regulations and standards including HTM’s, HBN’s and British Standards.We utilise the ADB database as well as other RDS formats. We work collaboratively with clients, user groups, stakeholders and design team members to ensure the client’s needs are met and strive to offer the best environmental and sustainable solution possible within their budget. Services we offer include: • Mechanical and electrical engineering design • Environmental engineering including DEC’s and EPC’s • BREEAM • Authorised Engineer (AE) services • Technical advisory services • Feasibility and due diligence surveys • Condition surveys

planning consultancy

Our services include: Site/ portfolio reviews

The NHS are under increasing Government pressure to understand and capitalise on the value of their own land and building stock. Ingleton Wood’s planning team have substantial experience in working with the NHS to ensure the value of their estate is realised. Our planning team provide a full range of planning services and have a wealth of experience spanning all major sectors, with a particular focus on healthcare and residential developments.

We undertake a planning review of individual sites or estate portfolios, in order to identify and assess the potential opportunity for future development/ land disposal and permitted development rights. Feasibility studies Where sites are identified as having development potential, a feasibility study is undertaken in order to identify the scale and quantum of development that could potentially be achieved on the site, together with the appropriate planning strategy. Planning applications The team regularly coordinate the preparation and submission of outline and full planning applications on behalf of the NHS and has extensive experience of negotiating planning permissions for a client. Site disposals The team provide advice to clients to ensure they fully understand the planning context of a site prior to its disposal to ensure all opportunities to maximise value are realised.

Thorpe Coombe Hospital

Dementia Intensive Care Unit, Hammond Court, Norwich