The Nightingale Hospital on Jersey
The Jersey Nightingale Hospital is a temporary building being constructed on a playing field consisting of an aluminium frame with semi rigid panels. There will be enough space for six 30-bed wards and areas to admit and discharge patients, as well as staff rest and changing facilities.
The building required unconventional solutions. Rather than minimise the size of the air distribution products (a frequent requirement on conventional projects), the company needed to expand the size of the products and plenum chambers. That ensures that pressure drops and velocities will be kept low, despite the large volume of air within the building, due its size and clinical function.
The top entry plenum boxes combined with Waterloo's SDVCA Vane Swirl Diffusers, have been designed and manufactured at over 700mm high (more than twice the average height of plenums generally). This will ensure that the correct air volume/speed is fed into each area of the hospital.
Work began on the hospital on the April 9 and it is due to open in the first week of May, with collaboration from all parties involved enabling this impressive lead time.