Clinical Services building up at Liverpool hospital scheme

Main frame steel erection has been completed on the Clinical Services Support Building (CSSB) that forms part of the multi-million pound redevelopment of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

Working on behalf of Carillion, Elland Steel Structures has erected approximately 850t to complete the CSSB, with a further 70t needed for two link bridges that will be lifted into place this month.

The five-storey CSSB will accommodate storage facilities for medical supplies, laboratories and offices. It is also the hub for many of the vital services that will power the main hospital, as power duct routes from the onsite energy centre go into the CSSBs own substation and then onwards into the adjacent Acute Hospital building.

The CSSB has a footprint measuring 60m x 40m and the steelwork has ben erected around a regular 9.9m x 6.6m grid pattern.

A large part of the ground floor incorporates a double height service yard. This part of the erection programme involved the project’s heaviest steel members.

Elland Steel Structures used a 100t capacity mobile crane to lift four 2m-deep girders, spanning 20m and each weighing 17t, that form the yard’s open plan space.

The CSSB forms part of phase one of the ongoing redevelopment of one of the north of England’s largest hospitals. Phase three, due to begin in 2019, will include a further 700t of structural steelwork from Elland to construct a large podium containing a ground floor car park with a public realm situated above.