Hundreds of windows are being replaced across Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre for the first time since the hospital was built 50 years ago. Around 18,000 square metres of glass are being swapped out across the site which opened in the 1970s.
Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH), the NHS trust that runs the hospital, said it expected the work, which began this month, would take two years to complete. Director of estates and facilities Andrew Chatten said the new windows would help improve the hospital's ageing estate and help it reduce its carbon footprint.
"We are committed to doing everything possible to reduce our carbon footprint, and to upgrade our ageing hospital estate, which costs a lot to maintain and makes it much harder for us to deliver the outstanding patient care to which we aspire," he said.
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"We will also look for more funding opportunities to extend schemes like this to all of our sites. We ask people to be conscious that this work is taking place as they go around our sites.” The project, which is being delivered by Eon, is being funded by a £70 million government grant as part of the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme.
NUH has already used some of the money to replace its coal and oil-fired boilers with energy-efficient and environmentally friendly technologies at City Hospital. The trust said cash will also be put towards upgrading the computer system that manages all the controls for the building, making it easier to adjust heating and cooling systems.
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