The practice has recently handed over a single storey extension to St Edmund's School in Godalming Surrey. The project filled in a space between existing buildings and included refurbishment of adjacent rooms to provide class rooms, a staff room, toilets and additional storage. This is one of several projects currently in design or under construction for XAVIER Catholic Education Trust.
We are delighted to announce that Folake Ekundayo, our senior Architect has been promoted to an Associate to the firm in recognition of her hard work and dedication on our Healthcare projects. She is currently heading up the design team for the multi-million pound MRI centre for The Royal Surrey Hospital, located in Milford Surrey.
The firm have just started the Design and Contract Management an extension of the A&E waiting room for the Royal Surrey County Hospital. Restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic meant that patients had to queue to get into A&E which was situated right by the front entrance to the main hospital. The Trust therefore decided to expand the current waiting room to increase capacity and reduce queues, and we were appointed to design and oversee the construction of the extension works to the waiting room by infilling the undercroft area by the current Emergency Department Entrance.
As part of the Winter Resilience Programme, the Ambulatory Emergency Care Extension (AEC) was built to provide a drop-in unit for ambulatory emergency referral cases to the Royal Surrey County Hospital. Works included the internal reconfiguration of the existing emergency assessment unit to accommodate 10no trolley and chair bays, 23 person waiting room and a new reception and triage (rapid assessment unit), MDT Room, a 6-bed bay, and Consulting / Isolation Bed Room, Staff base, clean and dirty utility rooms.