Royal Inland Hospital Case Study

Partnering with Meranti Developments Limited for local project management and installation.

The Brief

To design, manufacture and install new Refrigerated Body Storage Cabinets, Autopsy Suite, Specimen Storage and Ancillary trolleys, over multiple phases to accommodate the continuous operation of the facility.

The Project – Phase 1

LEEC were appointed to provide refrigerated body storage cabinets to facilitate multiple criteria, for different sizes; standard and bariatric, segregated sections for hospital use, coroner, and forensic isolation cases.

The zoning of the body storage cabinet (3x zones), locally sourced refrigeration split plant systems (x6 systems) and controls system (Delta Controls) is integrated into the hospital building management system to provide resilience, robustness, redundancy and reconfigurability.

The Autopsy room includes an autopsy table and two dissecting benches. The equipment includes downdraft ventilation with low-level ventilation alarm, height adjustment, garburator/macerator and integrated sluice, magnifying task lighting, organ weigh scales and various washdown sparges and surface mounted tapware. The autopsy table includes an x-ray friendly tray for non-invasive investigations.

The downdraft ventilation is designed to work with the site fresh air input at high level to draw air down past the users breathing zone and be pulled through the equipment work surfaces and provide localised focused ventilation extraction at point of use. The equipment includes easy to remove perforated panels and covers without the need for additional tools to allow access for cleaning.

The low-level alarm on the dissecting benches sound if there’s any obstruction or issues with ventilation extraction during use. This informs the users to pause during the dissecting process and to ensure any relevant steps are taken to fix any issues.

Ventilated specimen storage cabinets have been configured with a variety of adjustable shelves, and mobile trolleys, customised to suit the requirements of the facility and accommodate numerous sizes of containers and samples. These cabinets include sliding glass doors and therefore minimise the required operational space.

Battery powered stacking trolley, manual hydraulic stacking trolley, manual concealment trolley and fixed height viewing trolley are included to support the movement of body storage trays throughout the department and facility.

LEEC Ltd are world leaders in pathology, mortuary & laboratory design, and pride themselves in listening to the client’s requirements to find the best solution available for the site layout and end user operational strategy.

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