Pipe Center has won a contract to supply the full range of pipe, fittings, valves, sheet metal and ancillaries required for a new state-of-the-art National Hospital being built to serve the island of St Lucia.
When completed, the 122-bed establishment at Coubaril will be the most modern public healthcare facility in the Caribbean. It will include an accident and emergency department, acute general wards, high-tech operating theatres, and intensive care unit.
The financing package for the hospital is believed to be one of the largest grant allocations in the Caribbean made by the European Union for a single project.
The new hospital will become the main healthcare facility on the island, replacing the 127-year-old Victoria Hospital which has been struggling to meet the country’s growing health care needs.
Pipe Center will contribute all components, pipe work and materials for the hospital’s domestic hot and cold water system, solar collection, heat recovery, fire fighting and sanitary waste, ventilation, rain water and HVAC systems.
The overall value of the supply contract to the company is expected to exceed £500,000.
Mark Palmer, product development manager, says: “It is obviously a major supply contract and involves a number of our business sectors and suppliers contributing in close partnership.
“It has highlighted our ability as a business to work across the full spectrum of the market, not only bringing teams together within Wolseley, but harnessing the excellent relationships we have with manufacturers and suppliers.
As a result, we are now even better placed to deliver complete solutions for major and complex projects – whether at home in the UK or abroad.”