One of HBPW’s latest engineering design projects will be key to alleviating queuing at a leading hospital in Surrey.
As part of a £2.5m scheme at Frimley Park Hospital, an additional 134 car parking spots for patients and visitors will be created, increasing capacity to around 275 vehicles.
And the project, which is being led by HBPW Design engineer Shaun Strugnell on behalf of contractor, Faircloth Construction, will also help cut waiting times.
The scheme, unanimously backed by Surrey Heath Borough Council planners as far back as May, is expected to reduce waiting times for motorists eager to enter the car park from Portsmouth Road where there have been historic tailbacks. The scheme will complete later this year.
Janet King, Director of HR and Corporate Services at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We don’t think the extra capacity will completely solve all the parking and access issues. However, combined with the road widening in Portsmouth Road, we believe it will make a significant contribution towards easing congestion on and around the site.”
Shaun said: “The new car park is a single storey car park deck constructed in steel and precast concrete deck units and effectively sits directly above the existing park. From an engineering perspective it has been challenging. Working on a compact site that has a vast system of underground drainage and electrical cables beneath the car park, meant we have had to coordinate everything carefully and position the new foundations so as to avoid the pipes and cables serving the hospital.
“By their nature hospitals are technically complex environments so it wasn’t entirely a surprise. We are taking as much care of the car park and its environs as the doctors probably do of their patients!”