New Building for Children’s Hospital
August 2015

Kestrel Aluminium Systems only know too well how excellent working relationships are crucial when faced with challenging ambitious refurbishment projects. Last year, they worked closely with Axis Automatic Entrance Systems Ltd to ensure the successful delivery of their part of the refurbishment project of Alder Hey Children’s Hospital.

The contract secured by Axis saw the installation of over 200 doorsets into a brand new hospital building, the design of which had been inspired by children associated with the hospital.

Alder Hey hospital is the first hospital in Europe to have sliding glass doors on every room and Axis needed a new section to help achieve this ambitious plan. Axis approached Kestrel Aluminium to assist with designing a new header section for the project.

Working together, the two companies developed the new header section which fulfilled the brief for use with manual sliding doors. Kestrel Aluminium has since put this profile into stock as a standard section. As well as producing the new required section Kestrel Aluminium also added additional lengths of standard sections to allow Axis to deliver the project on budget and with minimum material wastage, always adding value where possible.

Working together to ensure all material was delivered on time Kestrel Aluminium and Axis co-ordinated efforts to manage the quantity of material required to manufacture over 200 doorsets. Steven Shute, Managing Director for Kestrel says “It is exciting for us to see customers deliver projects like Alder Hey and we thoroughly enjoy opportunities to work with our customers to achieve the best outcome for all involved”

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