State-of-the-art HDU's critical importance

Phil Green, senior project engineer at independent building services company, Shepherd Engineering Services (SES), describes SES's creation a new 'state-of-the-art', 4.5 million sterling pounds, high dependency unit (HDU) at The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough. Completion of the 16-bed HDU, part of a wider South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust investment programme to remodel and enhance the hospital's facilities, follows last September's completion, also by SES, of the Endeavour Unit (HEJ - November 2011), a new oncology satellite building built as a key element of the Trust's 30 million sterling pounds expansion and redevelopment of its Radiotherapy Unit at the Middlesbrough hospital.