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RVH Piling Scheme Delivered Safely - 10/27/2009 FK Lowry Piling has completed the foundation project for a £100 million hospital redevelopment in Belfast as part of a major capital programme to improve health provision across Northern Ireland. FKL was commissioned by McLaughlin Harvey to construct the foundations for a 13-storey critical care unit at Royal Victoria Hospital which has stood in the centre of the city for more than a century. The hospital had undergone a significant first phase rebuild in recent years followed by the creation of a central decontamination facility and an imaging centre. Advanced preparations for the £3.6 million specialist foundation package for Phase 2B began in summer 2007, followed by the enabling works and two further visits to deliver the main contract. FKL used a range of piling techniques (retention, CFA secant piles, contiguous wall piles, ground anchors, bearing piles, rotary and DTHH) in addition to soil nailing, rock bolting and spraying concrete facades, working in difficult ground conditions on an enclosed site some 65m square bounded to the north and west by the existing A&E department and to the south by the outpatients centre. To reduce the impact of the piling works – and in line with its eco-friendly working practices - FKL took positive steps to eliminate pollution, reduce waste materials and monitor noise and dust levels. Since the project completion, FKL has been awarded a further contract to connect the twostorey basement to the proposed Women and Children’s Hospital via a contiguous retaining wall tunnel and bearing piles. The scheme will require the installation of some 125 600mm diameter piles retaining up to 8.5m in addition to around 80 600mm diameter bearing piles. Work is due to start in February 2010.

RVH Piling Scheme Delivered Safely