She doesn’t want the language of industrialised construction to hold anyone back, or create barriers, and feels it’s simply a matter of adapting and changing a few behaviors.. Prioritising Design to Value with lean construction principles.
‘The radiology is very close by.Physiotherapy’s really close by.
So it’s easy to get hold of people.’.Of the building’s general layout, Kirsty Cobden comments that usefully, ‘Everything goes round in a circle.There are no dead ends, so you don’t have to go back on yourself.
You just keep going all the way round.’.Maswiken also remarks on this ease of movement within the hospital.
He enjoys the freedom of not having to ‘push things aside’ to walk between areas.
The hallways are very spacious, particularly when compared to the ‘narrow corridors’ of other hospitals in which he has worked.This was a really interesting project because there are two things in it that are probably unique, certainly in the UK, if not in the world..
This building contains hundreds of thousands of samples, stored in vats of liquid nitrogen at -278o centigrade.Currently, accessing the samples is a manual process which exposes the users to risk of asphyxiation due to their close proximity to the liquid Nitrogen.
As the Nitrogen evaporates, a blanket of cold Nitrogen forms on the floor and rises upwards, thereby excluding the oxygen necessary for human life.. For the new facility, they wanted to make sure no-one had to go near the storage vessels.So they commissioned a US company called Brooks to design a robot that could collect samples and deliver them to the scientist, in a way that’s a bit like a vending machine.