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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: #119 The Grange: Saving Time, Saving Lives
Description: As COVID-19 rampaged across the UK in 2020, society shut down and hospitals reached breaking point. For engineers building The Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran, South Wales their work took on a greater meaning. They had to make sure that this 450 bed critical care facility was completed ahead of time. Their actions didn’t just save lives. They saved money because without it Wales might have needed a temporary Nightingale Hospital. Accelerating construction was only possible thanks to the advanced design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) approach undertaken by the contractor Laing O’Rourke supported by a team of designers incl...