Month: August 2023

The Building Better Healthcare Awards celebrates achievements in the built healthcare environment. 

Held every November, the Building Better Healthcare Awards are attended by more than 600 industry professionals, providing the perfect place to network and connect with like-minded individuals.

We are a proud sponsor of the 2023 awards and look forward to seeing the best UK healthcare projects of the last year recognised for continuing to drive the healthcare sector onward.

DSSR is a specialist in the healthcare sector, designing energy-efficient building services to support the delivery of a Net Zero NHS. With over 78 years of experience in building services design, specialises in top-notch MEP designs for healthcare. Our expertise benefits both clients and contractors, delivering innovative solutions.

Building services are critical to the operation of any healthcare facility, ensuring the reliability of crucial healthcare equipment.

As a long-term design partner for the NHS, we have a detailed understanding of how to design award-winning healthcare facilities throughout the UK.

DSSR’s successful track record includes complex healthcare projects within live environments, and collaborating with NHS boards and others. We prioritise “Net Zero” NHS targets for reduced waste and emissions.

We’ve achieved net zero carbon in previous projects by boosting energy efficiency, incorporating renewables, and transitioning from gas to electricity-led systems.

DSSR embraces Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) principles, including standardised components and on-site manufacturing, benefiting quality and cost.

We will be exhibiting at the UK’s largest exhibition and conference dedicated to NHS Estates and Facilities Managers, taking place on 10-11 October 2023 at the Manchester Central. Come and visit us at Stand E32 to learn more about our services and how we can help you with your next healthcare project.

DSSR is an award-winning international company of consulting engineers with a proven track record in supporting the design and development of healthcare schemes. Our Harrogate office is a specialist in the healthcare industry, with a team of engineers who have over 100 years of combined experience.

We are committed to delivering high-quality, sustainable healthcare facilities that meet the needs of our clients and their patients. We work closely with our clients to understand their requirements and to develop innovative solutions that meet their budget and timescales.

Our services include:

• Mechanical and electrical engineering design
• Building services engineering design
• Sustainability and energy efficiency consultancy
• Project management
• Construction supervision

We are passionate about creating healthcare environments that are both functional and comfortable. We believe that our expertise and experience can help you to create a healthcare facility that is a positive and healing place for patients, staff, and visitors.

Come join us on stand E32

DSSR and other members of the Hub North Scotland supply chain recently financed a fact-finding trip for six pupils from Aberdeen to the city’s twin city Regensburg in Germany. Aberdeen City Council is looking to the example of Regensburg as part of the Aberdeen City Vision project to regenerate the city centre and beachfront.

All six pupils have been taking part in consultation events related to the project. They were given the opportunity to experience how the centre of Regensburg successfully developed lively cultural and festival spaces, explore the city’s approach to urban design and place-making, and see how it involves young people in the decision-making process.

The trip helped the pupils from Aberdeen to develop the skills and confidence to act as ‘Young Creative Consultants’ and encourage other young people to take part in Aberdeen’s planning process as it looks to create a world-class city.

Accompanied by members of Aberdeen City Council’s Creative Learning team and engagement consultants streets-UK, the young students travelled to Regensburg in time for its 50th annual Bürgerfest. This is a colourful program of entertainment, culinary delights and music. For three days, the streets, alleys, and squares of Regensburg are transformed into the stage for one of the largest cultural festivals in Bavaria–featuring more than 360 individual events.

As part of the trip, the pupils from Aberdeen met with pupils from a local secondary school. They were provided with a tour of Regensburg by members of the local youth parliament, including co-designed, inclusive play parks and a youth centre.

Hub North Scotland runs the programme management office for the project, which includes several of its supply chain members. Their trip was financed by Currie & Brown, DSSR, Glenmhor, Graham McCorkindale Consulting, Keppie Design, LDA Design, Morrison Media, OP-EN, Savills and Turner & Townsend.

Aberdeen was Regensburg’s first twin city, a relationship that started in 1955. School projects on various current topics, cultural and sports activities and the cooperation of youth associations help the twin partnership to flourish.

The two universities also maintain a close relationship. In recent years, the adult education centre in Regensburg has set up a number of interesting, long-term projects together with the Arts Development Team in Aberdeen. This includes the joint publication of a book in which senior citizens from both cities talk about their post-war experiences – valuable memories that will now be preserved for future generations thanks to this collaboration.

We were grateful to Gordon from the Building Performance Modelling team who led an insightful presentation on Operational Energy in our latest ‘Lunch & Learn’ session.

A growing trend we are seeing in the industry is the need to quantify the predicted in-use energy consumption of buildings, which requires an in-depth level of operational energy modelling–a field of simulation modelling which continues to receive increased industry focus.

We are, therefore, seeing more and more projects where operational energy modelling forms part of the project requirements over and above building regulation energy calculations.

Our Building Performance Modelling Team is currently leading the development of our operational energy modelling skills such as TM54 Operational Energy Assessments, and carrying out operational energy studies across both concept and detailed design stage.

We are planning to provide similar ‘Lunch & Learn’ sessions across all DSSR offices in due course.

Click below to read more about our Building Performance Modelling capabilities.