Omagh Hospital & Primary Care Centre
The Client: Western Health & Social Care Trust
Our roles: Civil & Structural Design, Traffic Engineering, CDM Services (2011–2015), Principal Designer (2016 onwards), Site Supervision
Project Summary
Doran Consulting provided civil and structural engineering design, traffic engineering, CDM services and site supervision for the development, including Principal Designer services from 2016 onwards.
This project involved the development of a 28,000m² enhanced local hospital in Omagh, providing primary and community care services at a single destination.
The scheme also included major civil engineering infrastructure works, including roads, car parks, service yards and extensive landscaped areas, which involved flood modelling and flood compensation works.
The new facility provides a health and care centre, GP accommodation, Outpatients Department, Renal Department, wards, Children’s Department and specialist care. These are accommodated within a complex of buildings, generally of two storeys with plant rooms above. An Energy Centre and a Central Sterile Services Department (CSSD) were also constructed.
Expertise & Delivery
The main hospital building was designed with a structural frame comprising reinforced concrete columns, outer walls and continuous beams carrying reinforced concrete floor slabs. The ground slab of the main building is partially suspended due to variations in bearing levels on the sloping site. The plant rooms at second-floor level are constructed using structural steelwork with lightweight cladding.
The Energy Centre and CSSD buildings are both two-storey steel-framed buildings designed around the proposed plant. The upper floors were designed as composite beams carrying semi-precast concrete floor slabs. The ground floors comprise suspended reinforced concrete slabs on ground beams, set at levels to incorporate mechanical and electrical service ducts. The buildings are supported on reinforced concrete piled foundations due to the soft subsoils present in this area of the site.
