General Demolition has been engaged by Bouygues UK to perform the phased demolition of over half of the existing site buildings, including most of the Edwardian buildings, for the redevelopment of the North Middlesex University Hospital in Edmonton, north London.

The scope of work includes asbestos removal, soft stripping of fixtures and fittings and demolition of two elevated reinforced concrete access ramps, the three-storey Medical Block, the two-storey Old Doctors Quarters, and two single-storey buildings – the Restaurant and Receipt & Deliveries facility, to provide an open site area.

The work, which is being performed in a ‘live’ working environment with the minimum of disruption to the existing hospital facilities, includes implementation of a site waste management plan to maximise resource recovery on the site. More than 200,000 bricks have been reclaimed from the demolished buildings.

The demolition works will clear the way for the £118 million construction of a new building that will provide an Emergency Care Centre, an Acute and Critical Care Centre and a Diagnostic and Treatment Centre. A new Energy Centre will also be constructed. The new buildings should be complete and fully operational by 2010. The redevelopment will provide state-of-the-art facilities for accident and emergency services, diagnostics, in-patients, operating theatres and endoscopy.

The Bouygues Consortium (trading as Bynorth and comprising Bouygues UK, Ecovert FM & HSBC) will design, build, finance and maintain the new hospital facilities for the North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) healthcare scheme.

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