The Point Fortin Hospital
Supervising the construction of a 100-bed hospital that seeks to raise the profile of public healthcare in Trinidad and Tobago.
Location
Point Fortin, Trinidad
Beston's Role
Construction and Project Management
Beston's Team
Mark Francois, Kevin Granger, Colin Sinarine, Hardeo Chattergoon, Larry Leicome
Collaborators
VAMED Engineering GmbH & CO KG / H2 Designs & Michel Turcotte / ENCO Limited / RLB
The Point Fortin Hospital seeks to elevate the status of public health facilities that are available to citizens of Trinidad and Tobago.
Spread over three storeys on a 16-acre site, the hospital will combine state-of-the-art technology with the clinical know-how of experts to provide preventative healthcare measures, diagnostics, treatment, and care for pediatric and adult outpatients and inpatients. Its construction has also presented Beston Consulting with a tremendous opportunity for learning, while building our health care portfolio. We joined as FIDIC engineers, a little way into the start of the project, and have since played an active advisory role on the construction and management of this complex civic building.
This project has challenged us considerably, but in a way that we’ve welcomed – in order to successfully oversee construction on site and the administering of the contract, we had to expand our scope of understanding of the medical field and the many varied factors that go into the construction and effective running of a world-class health facility. We have enjoyed learning from the M&E and medical teams on the project. And we have since helped to bridge the gap between the project stakeholders and the construction team, and routinely recommend solutions to mitigate challenges on site.
Beston’s main goal on the hospital is ensuring that it is constructed and finished in such a way that it remains intact and fully functioning during any future meteorological or geological events – times at which it would be needed most.