Work is now well underway on the third phase of the impressive new Southmead super hospital which is being built in Bristol. Carillion, one of the UK’s construction companies secured financial close of the US$700 million project in February 2010 and has subsequently completed phase 1 and 2 with the support of Human Recognition Systems (HRS).
Work is now well underway on the third phase of the impressive new Southmead super hospital which is being built in Bristol. Carillion, one of the UK's construction companies secured financial close of the US$700 million project in February 2010 and has subsequently completed phase 1 and 2 with the support of Human Recognition Systems (HRS).
Carillion aims to complete the project on time and on budget, with the assistance of the UK's biometric access control and workforce management solution from HRS. The system has been deployed on the Southmead Project to ensure that all employees have the correct credentials and accreditation to be on site through a series of reports including access and attendance, CSCS accreditation and health and safety. The project team has also opted to take the solution environment module which allows them to report against locally sourced labor and travel to site carbon emissions supporting them to achieve compliance with BREEAM commitments.
Working in conjunction with Carillion, HRS has added some bespoke elements to the core functionality to ensure that the project team can meet the tight deadlines and report effectively and efficiently against project KPI's. A requirement of the project was the need to have a series of muster points around the perimeter for mass evacuation of the site in case of an emergency.
HRS designed the muster point reporting module which combines card readers installed at site egress points with the software allowing each site operative to swipe a card as they exit site and a live report was provided back to site showing who was yet to leave site, which is then provided to the emergency services for full site evacuation and search procedures.