Britplas has been appointed to supply the window and glazing package to Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust’s new mental health facility in Southport, continuing a relationship between the two organisations which started 12 years ago with the installation of the first ever Safevent windows.
The new £20 million facility is being built adjacent to the existing Boothroyd Unit, currently in use as an acute assessment ward for over-65s with functional and organic mental health problems, and which will eventually be replaced. Britplas’s Safevent Access window, complete with integral blinds, will be fitted to each of the 44 bedrooms. Britplas has also been chosen to provide the whole external glazing package, including curtain walling, doors, and standard casement windows, with design, manufacture, and installation, all tailored to meet the standards required of a medium secure mental health unit.
“We are delighted to have such a long-standing relationship with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, and to be working with it again on this new facility,” said Britplas head of sales, Neil Guest. “Rathbone Hospital was the first facility to have Britplas Safevent windows installed, and we have continued to develop the product to ensure that we are still at the forefront of design and usability in the mental health sector.”