‘Business as usual’ during energy centre work

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, an integrated hospital and community services healthcare organisation, serves around 400,000 people across Hartlepool, Stockton, and parts of County Durham. Providing emergency and planned medical and surgical care, maternity services, and a wide range of diagnostic services and outpatient clinics, The University Hospital of North Tees in Stockton has a need to renew its ageing infrastructure in preparation for its ongoing Sustainability and Transformation Plan. As part of this, there is a requirement for a new energy centre capable of serving the entire site. As well as being flexible to meet future demand, the centre also needs to be more reliable, energy-efficient, and environmentally-friendly.

£25 million in investment funding

The new energy centre was a key part of the Trust’s investment plans, after it successfully secured £25 million to carry out much-needed investment in its infrastructure. The Trust’s estates and facilities management is run by North Tees and Hartlepool Solutions LLP (NT&HS), a wholly owned subsidiary company of North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, which worked closely with NG Bailey throughout the project. Steven Taylor, assistant director of estates and capital for NT&HS LLP, which acted as project manager on the project, explained that parts of the hospital – and particularly the boilers, heating, and electrical plant – are now nearly 50 years’ old, and the organisation needed to replace them to ensure that services remain safe and reliable and able to maintain the hospital’s operational effectiveness.