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C A S E S T U D Y VIEWPOINT.com | +1 800.333.3197 Building an extension to Great Ormond Street Childrens' Hospital in London required a fast and effective monitoring solution to ensure that key construction milestones were met on time. The 30,000 square metre Mittal Children's Medical Centre expansion project represents the second phase of a major £321m redevelopment programme at the famous children's hospital, located near Holborn in central London. Intended to increase the facility's overall capacity by 20%, the project will see two ultra energyefficient clinical buildings built to house facilities for pioneering new patient treatments, clinical research and medical training. The first block — the £90m Morgan Stanley Clinical Building, designed by Llewelyn Davies Yeang architects — is currently on site and due for completion at the end of the year. Spread over eight storeys, it will include a new cardiac unit, theatres, plus renal and neurological units, and will be serviced by a range of hi-tech green technologies including combined cooling, heating and power units (designed to achieve a 60% reduction in carbon emissions), sensor taps, water-efficient toilets and showers and natural daylight detectors. Viewpoint's Field View, formerly Priority 1 construction project information management system is being used by main contractor BAM Construct to monitor various aspects of construction delivery, as construction manager Richard Pateman explains: "We previously used Field View as a snagging tool, but at Great Ormond Street we wanted to use it as a progressing tool to monitor construction work in individual areas, which was a major concern," he said. "Processes in hospital buildings are very complicated and require numerous inspections by our managers. For example, there is more emphasis on inspections prior to wall and ceiling closures etc. and because the building is divided into 700 individual areas, monitoring progress required a tool that would allow us to perform checks and analyse progress quickly without the need for time-consuming paperwork." Field View improves efficiency by making construction site paperwork easily accessible via a mobile computer (PDA). At Great Ormond Street, BAM put together a schedule to identify key completion elements of the construction programme. Each week, site managers, armed with PDAs, then inspected work on site and noted down, via dropdown checklists on the PDA, whether those elements were completed, underway or not yet started. A Construction Health Check It allowed us to identify whether there's a problem in the work process and go backand investigate why it occurred - Richard Pateman, Construction Manager, BAM Construct

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