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Healthy Buildings Use Kingspan at NHS Key Worker Accommodation

March 2007

Kingspan’s architectural wall panels help to create ‘healthy buildings in practice’ for Wirral Hospital NHS Trust.

Healthcare staff at the NHS Trust will have had a warmer winter this year, thanks to an £8m investment in new, environmentally sustainable workers’ accommodation blocks, with an insulated wall panel system from Kingspan Insulated Panels.

Architects Ainsley Gommon, were instructed by Wirral Hospital NHS Trust to create a ‘healthy building in practice’, which meant looking closely at energy efficiency and environmental considerations.

For the wall envelope, they turned to Kingspan Insulated Panels, choosing the company’s KS1000MR (Micro Rib) and KS1000MM (Mini Micro) Architectural Wall Panels. The panels are ideally suited to modern image buildings because they come in a range of colours and finishes, providing construction solutions of the highest quality and appearance.

Ainsley Gommon Director, Alf Plant, commented:

“The accommodation blocks occupy a very tight site in the grounds of a busy general hospital. We needed a lightweight cladding system that could meet the required environmental standards and be erected quickly and safely from mast-climbers. We needed to avoid fully scaffolding the new blocks, as space restrictions precluded this. Kingspan satisfied the brief by providing us with an aesthetically simple, cost-effective, low maintenance envelope for the building”.

The other environmental benefits of the Architectural Wall Panel systems include lifetime insulation continuity, thermal performance and airtightness rating of 5m³/hr/m² certainty. The sustainable system is rated with zero ODP and has a Loss Prevention Certification Board (LPCB) approval to LPS 1181 Grade EXT-A or EXT-B. The panels also come with guaranteed structural performance and are low maintenance with a lifetime durability of 40 years.

The recently completed second phase of the development, Park View for which Gleeson Building were the main contractor, has 21 four bedroom apartments each grouped around a shared, fully-fitted kitchen and lounge area; and 28 two bedroom, self-contained apartments. It joins the first phase, River View, with its 25 four-bed apartments to provide NHS staff with a total of 240 comfortable, well insulated, energy efficient study bedrooms.