How to win: Building Safety Act Principle Designer Cath Lab 3 Refurbishment

About this contract

The Authority has a requirement for Principal Designer Services to take the lead in planning, managing, monitoring and coordinating health and safety during the pre-construction (design and planning stage) and during construction stages for the Cath Lab 3 refurbishment. The Authority wishes to engage with a principal designer to work closely with the project team, coordinating the work of others and ensuring significant and foreseeable risks are managed throughout the design process. The Authority wishes to engage with a principal designer to work closely with the project team, coordinating the work of others and ensuring significant and foreseeable risks are managed throughout the design process. The Project Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) are to replacing their existing Cardiac Catheter Laboratory medical equipment and refurbishing the existing facilities within Cardiac Catheter Laboratory (Cath Lab No.3) at 4th floor level of the East Wing of the St Thomas’ Hospital site. The Project has been designed and prepared to completion of RIBA 4.

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