Healthcare
RSK works through its well-established subsidiaries in the healthcare sector and is quickly gaining a reputation as a solutions provider, whether for primary- or secondary-care estates or mental health facilities. We are conscious of how healthcare organisations face major challenges in construction and estate management, especially more recently with the push towards the HIP1 and HIP2 new build programmes. For example, many schemes are including targets for a net-zero-carbon standard and reducing the environmental impacts of estates. One way RSK is helping clients tackle this challenge is through nature-based solutions (NBS) which aim to protect, manage and restore natural ecosystems in ways that also benefit biodiversity and human well-being. RSK and its businesses are well-placed to deliver NBS approaches to the healthcare sector across a variety of services.
In addition to meeting their carbon targets, NHS trusts have to increase asset efficiency and utilisation while managing an ageing property portfolio with maintenance backlogs and capital work underspending.
RSK understands these challenges. We help clients to develop, maintain, improve, renew and dispose of property assets.
Our focus is on providing clients with the best solutions for their challenges. We pride ourselves on a responsive, pragmatic approach and a deep understanding of clientsโ needs. This enables us to provide comprehensive support and to identify opportunities that have positive effects on programme, cost and risk. As a leading provider of environmental and site investigation services to infrastructure projects and construction and property programmes, RSK has excellent geographical coverage across the UK.
Our ever-expanding business includes one of the largest consultancy offerings in the UK coupled with a growing suite of contracting services. Collectively, we deliver added value through an unrivalled package of services from pre-acquisition and planning through to post-construction.
We help clients in the healthcare sector at every stage of a propertyโs lifespan, including development, maintenance, improvement, asset renewal and disposal. In the UK, healthcare organisations can access our services through various supply agreements and frameworks, including
- ProCure22 (direct appointments by principal supply chain partners)
- Constructionline
- Shared Business Services (SBS) โ via our Pellings business
- London Procurement Partnership
- ESPO
Collectively, RSKโs work in the sector is gathering pace and as a group we can service estates teams within trusts and across the supply chain with planners, architects and contractors working on healthcare projects. Visit the RSK Businesses section to learn more about the brands within the RSK group.
For details of the RSK groupโs added-value approach and the specific services it provides aligned to each of the development stages of a healthcare project, please see our brochure and the expertise section below. You will also find a selection of relevant healthcare sector case studies below.
View our brochure on nature-based solutions for the healthcare sector.
Our Expertise
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Nature-based solutions
โข Arboricultural (tree) surveying, including planning and tree risk assessments
โข Tree planting: funding applications, design and management
โข Ecological management plans and impact assessments
โข Preliminary ecological appraisal (PEA) and BREEAM โfeed-inโ services
โข Protected species surveying (badgers, bats, great crested newts, etc.)
โข Invasive weeds (e.g., Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed) surveys and management contracting
โข Hard and soft landscaping design and implementation (bringing the outside in)
โข Landscape architecture, landscape planning and urban design
โข Healing courtyards and sensory gardens: therapeutic horticulture for mobility/rehabilitation/exercise and mental health referrals
โข Green infrastructure advice, including for green roofs and walls
โข Consultations and community/stakeholder liaison support
โข Accessibility and wayfinding: planning and designing of walking routes for health walks and other green prescribing interventions
โข Landscape maintenance and management
โข Vegetation management (including coppicing and glade creation)
โข Habitat creation and landscape restoration
โข Ecological mitigation
โข Sustainable river restoration and natural flood management, sustainable drainage systems (SuDS)
โข Wetland habitat creation (including wetland and wild flower plant nursery and contracting services)
โข Lake desilting
โข Biodiversity net gain (BNG) assessments and strategies
โข Green corporate strategy and natural capital accounting
โข Pond creation and seeding -
Pre-acquisition and planning
โข Support bid stage tender writing
โข Review of project constraints
โข Planning support (TCPA / DCO / Transport etc)
โข Flood risk assessments and mitigation design
โข Whole life costing; energy studies; renewable energy feasibility studies, including ground source heat pump design and net-zero carbon design; and BREEAM support
โข Architectural design
โข Landscape Architecture (including landscape and visual impact assessment LVIA)
โข Building surveying of existing estates
โข One of the largest ecology teams in the UK, adding value from surveying, mitigation, biodiversity net gain and rewilding for offsetting
โข One of the largest Archaeological and Built Heritage surveying and contracting teams in the UK Fully UKAS-accredited asbestos team, including sampling, analysis, surveying, and an armโs length independent removal contracting business -
Detailed design and site preparation
โข Site investigation: geotechnical, geoenvironmental and geophysical
โข In-house drillers (more than 100 rigs)
โข In-house laboratories for soil and waste analysis
โข In-house Pile Testing business to maximise re-use of existing infrastructure
โข Remediation design and contracting
โข In-house structural engineering teams
โข Civil engineering including water and wastewater services
โข Earthworks design, material management plans and slope stabilisation
โข In-house mechanical and electrical (M&E) engineering for services design and optimisation -
Construction
โข Site supervision/clerk of works
โข Sustainability support and assessment e.g. BREEAM
โข Environmental and health and safety compliance support (including audit, CDM etc.)
โข Waste management support including re-use of materials
โข Noise and vibration assessments
โข Air quality
โข Validation of remediation strategy (including vapour etc)
โข Expert Witness support across a range of disciplines (including construction disputes)
โข 24-hr response contracting for major incidents or spills
COVID-19 decontamination -
Post-construction
โข Statutory approvals and sign-off
โข Permit surrender, CL:AIRE MMP verification and validation, SWMP review
โข Site inspection of work, issue of construction contract certificates
โข Health and safety performance reviews
โข Post-project and closeout reports
โข Post-construction testing for compliance and BREEAM credits
โข Commissioning and validation of services (mechanical and electrical, M&E), including ground source heat pumps
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๐ข We are proud to sponsor the #GreenEnergyAwards 2022, an event organized by Scottish Renewables
๐ This ceremony aims to recognise the inspirational organisations, people and projects going above and beyond to make a real difference to the health, wealth, and wellbeing of Scotland
We can't wait to see you there!
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๐ข We are delighted to welcome ERS, a trusted and experienced economic development consultancy, to the #RSKFamily
๐ ERS is one of the few companies from this sector to have its quality assurance processes independently accredited to ISO 9001.
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๐ On November 19th, we celebrated #InternationalMensDay, a global holiday that highlights the positive value men bring to the world.
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๐ข We are delighted to share that ZED, an RSK company, has been involved in producing an energy model and Part L compliance verification for a new sustainable construction project by the hit @BBC show DIY SOS.
๐ DIY SOS is a show centred around helping transform houses across Britain and this project is part of the #ChildrenInNeed 2022 campaign.
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๐ฎ โThe UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. Building with Nature can help clients understand how they can utilise best-practice green infrastructure solutions to deliver developments that are better for both people and nature.โ
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