Activity

The project is now nearing completion, so the visit is taking place before handing over to the University Hospital Dorset to fit the peripheral equipment and items.
The visitors will experience: -
1. A Health and Safety briefing, as though it’s your first day on site as one of the workforce.
2. A short presentation showing the development from demolition through to construction with an explanation of Building Information Modelling (BIM) 3D visuals, and careers in construction.
Building Information Modelling (BIM)
• Overview BIM and 3D modelling have been fundamental to the development of the various project designs. As the designs have been refined the models have increasingly been used to verify coordination using clash detection.
• The models have so far also been used to assist in the planning of logistics, the build sequence, verification of quantities for sustainability and costing purposes, and they have started to be used in the collation of asset data to accompany the Operational & Maintenance manuals in accordance with the Trust requirements
3. A guided tour of the key areas of the development, with detail of the trades and activities that were undertaken to bring the building to this state from design manager, construction managers to mechanical and electrical specialists through from structural, brick and block work, plasterboard and dry-lining and the finishing trades for floors, decorating and carpentry.
4. An incite into the ongoing maintenance and operational management of the building that is undertaken by the University Hospital Estates team, who directly employ people of all levels with skills in construction to work in specialist areas, and trades to keep the hospital infrastructure running.