Hospital design, construction and maintenance

5 July 2010 - New contracts - United Kingdom

In Merseyside, VINCI Construction UK is continuing its implementation of the design-build contract for the extension and rehabilitation of Whiston Hospital. Having completed the construction of a 75,000 sq. metre building, in collaboration with Freyssinet Ltd, a Soletanche Freyssinet subsidiary (VINCI Construction), for the prestressed concrete, the company is now preparing to launch phases 2 and 3 of the project, i.e. the rehabilitation of 12,000 sq. metres of the old hospital complex and the external works. Meanwhile, VINCI Facilities, a subsidiary of VINCI Construction UK, has already embarked on its task of maintaining the hospital premises, undertaken within the framework of a 40-year PFI contract (private finance initiative), a British form of public-private partnership. Value: almost £200m (€234m) for the first contract and more than £220m (€257m) for the second contract.