Rsch Hospital Redevelopment

As well as the Helideck, work has also been progressing well on the main site. This link will take you to a timelapse video, showing the progress made over the month of June 2018 on Stage 1 of the re-development.
https://youtu.be/QtpY263SwRY

Here is a first look at the freshly painted Helideck! This photo was taken by the crane driver, and you can see Helideck Team, led by Nick Delman.
The Helideck is due to take its first operational landing in early 2019!

A look at the Royal Sussex County Hospital's helideck, that will come into operation early in 2019. We spend 15 minutes looking on and under the deck. We talk to Nick Delman, who is overseeing its construction and Magnus Nelson, the Hospital's Major Trauma Lead who also works on the Kent Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance.

The #NHS70 is big news. So much so that Latest TV dedicated their entire evening news bulletin to covering the celebrations at the Royal Sussex County Hospital. You can catch up with the programme via the link below. It includes interviews with staff, discussions of the hospital's redevelopment programme and a specially written work by the Laughing Poet. https://thelatest.co.uk/…/special-nhs-7 0th-anniversary-at-…/

Rachel Riley came to visit, and was as charming in real life as she is on television.

#NameYourCrane
Only 4 days left to make your suggestion for a crane name at the Royal Sussex County Hospital redevelopment site.
To suggest a name simply put it in the comments section of this post. The closing date for suggestions is Friday 9th March. A short list, selected from all the suggestions, will be put out to public vote to decide the final winners. Each crane will have a plaque attached bearing its new name.
... How do you maximise the chance of getting your suggestion on the short list? Imagination, humour and originality will all stand you in good stead. And let’s get it out there right now, Craney McCraneface will not make the short list; it fails on all three criteria. 😉
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It's time to Name Your Crane...

We started the day in darkness, setting up a 500 tonne mobile crane to build a new tower crane on site. As the sun goes down we have the main support for the crane in place. You can see it on the left hand side of the second picture.
The lifting arm for the crane will be fitted over the weekend.
Both these images are from our time lapse camera on top of the hospital's tower block. Eastern Road, the main road past the hospital, is at the top of the pictures.

The redevelopment of the Royal Sussex County Hospital is coming on leaps and bounds. The excavation for the Stage 1 Building is over half way complete. The first picture shows the view along the site's north retaining wall in front of the children's hospital. There are 413 foundation piles making up the retaining walls for the Stage 1 site. The second picture shows the excavations underway. It's taken from the back of the construction site looking out towards Eastern Road, ...which runs in front of the hospital. The third image shows the base of the first of four tower cranes that will be used for Stage 1 of the redevelopment. Excavation is complete in this area and the foundation slab for the building is being laid. The second tower crane will be coming to site in January, with the other two following later in the year. For the fourth picture we move up to the helideck, that is being built on top of the Thomas Kemp Tower. The image shows the framework for the ramp that will be used to transfer patients from the air ambulance to the new helideck lift. Aspects of the helideck framework are now clearly visible from the ground.
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