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‘It’s very easy, really,’ he says.‘There’s a central stairway, which you can sort of run up, or walk with intent… The lifts are very quick.

They’re very spacious.It’s easy to negotiate your way around.If, for some reason, I couldn’t go that way, there are fire exits at each end of the building, which I could go up if needed.’.

The other aspect of the hospital’s sense of spaciousness is, of course, provided by the rooms themselves.Supplies Lead Wendy Bonard-Williams comments that her team are fortunate in this regard.

‘With the actual store rooms themselves,’ she says, ‘they’ve really thought about it.’.

Raj Goel agrees when talking about the outpatient rooms.We are providing structural engineering design for all precast panels including the design of bracket connections as well as all stone design and detailing (partly handset and partly panelised).

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