Case Study
Midland Metropolitan University Hospital
By preserving a golden thread of information, Viewpoint for Projects helped the NHS Trust transition work to Balfour Beatty seamlessly—reducing risk, improving workflows and keeping a major hospital build on track.
Impact
- Seamless data handover
- Reduced errors and duplicate work
- Improved productivity across disciplines
- Strengthened quality and compliance
At a glance products
With Viewpoint for Projects, users have access to the information they need at the right time, to make quick, informed decisions. People are saving time by using this system so they can access information fairly quickly. Compared to the traditional process of working [without such a program], it saves us about a week on each package submission.
— Nohmam Awan
Digital Construction Lead, Balfour Beatty
Introduction
In 2018, the main contractor who was using Viewpoint For Projects (VFP) on the Midland Metropolitan Hospital went into liquidation, leaving the Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust with a half-constructed hospital. This resulted in 'The Trust' engaging with Balfour Beatty who inherited VFP and all the project data that went with it.
Connecting stakeholders
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (the Trust) is focused on improving lives in its community through care, teaching, education, innovation and research. At more than 7,000 employees strong, the Trust is responsible for the healthcare of an estimated 530,000 people from across North-West Birmingham and numerous towns within Sandwell in the United Kingdom.
The Trust is making major investments to improve the level and quality of healthcare offered, and one of those improvements is the construction of the state-of-the-art Midland Metropolitan University Hospital. Once construction is complete, this facility will be the largest acute healthcare facility within the Trust.
Carillion, a well-known and highly regarded construction and project management firm, was chosen to build Midland Metropolitan University Hospital before its collapse in 2018.
In the wake of Carillion’s insolvency, the Trust was left scrambling to find a new construction firm and keep the project moving forward as planned. In addition to the challenge of finding a new contractor to take over the project, the Trust needed to preserve the existing project data information flow and maintain it moving forward with the new contractor. Carillion had relied on Viewpoint for Projects (VFP) as the hospital construction cloud-based project management software solution.
