Supporting Advanced Diagnostic Environments in Live Hospital Settings
SRS offer a comprehensive suite of consultancy, design, and delivery services focused on the refurbishment of existing laboratory facilities within live hospital environments. Our approach is specifically developed to support the safe and efficient integration of new diagnostic capability, while maintaining business continuity, regulatory compliance, and operational performance.
As an experienced contractor operating within complex healthcare settings, we are uniquely positioned to extend our role beyond construction alone, providing early-stage technical input, coordinated design, and end-to-end project delivery. This integrated model reduces risk, streamlines decision making, and ensures that laboratory upgrades are delivered efficiently and safely.
Conditioning Reports
Our laboratory and building conditioning reports provide a detailed understanding of the existing facility and its ability to support refurbishment works and enhanced laboratory functions. These reports assess environmental conditions, building fabric, spatial constraints, and critical engineering systems, with a strong focus on laboratories operating within live hospital environments.
The reports identify limitations, compliance gaps, and operational risks that could impact refurbishment works or future laboratory performance. Clear, practical recommendations are provided to support upgrade strategies, enabling works, and phased implementation while minimising disruption to ongoing diagnostic services.
Feasibility Surveys
We undertake targeted feasibility surveys to evaluate refurbishment options within existing laboratory spaces. These surveys consider technical constraints, operational workflows, access limitations, and opportunities for phased delivery within occupied environments.
Key considerations include temporary enabling works, decant strategies, service resilience, programme constraints, and cost implications. The outcome is a set of clear, achievable options that support informed decision-making and align refurbishment works with future diagnostic requirements.
Mechanical & Electrical (M&E) Assessment and Design
Our M&E service begins with a thorough assessment and quantification of existing building and laboratory services. This includes detailed evaluation of:
• Electrical capacity, resilience, and distribution
• Data and IT infrastructure
• Drainage capacity and connectivity
• Ventilation and air conditioning performance, including air change rates and
environmental control
• Space and access constraints affecting service upgrades
By fully understanding existing infrastructure, we can identify where systems can be adapted, enhanced, or rationalised, avoiding unnecessary replacement and reducing cost and programme risk.
From this baseline, we develop coordinated M&E plans that support refurbishment works and future laboratory demands. Designs prioritise reliability, maintainability, and compliance, while being deliverable within live hospital settings with minimal disruption to ongoing operations.
Architectural Design and Implementation Planning
Our architectural services are focused on adapting existing laboratory environments to support enhanced functionality and improved workflows. Designs are developed with a clear understanding of laboratory operations, staff movement, equipment interfaces, and biosafety requirements.
Implementation and phasing plans are a core component of our service. These plans address access, segregation, infection control, and sequencing of works, ensuring refurbishment activities can proceed safely alongside ongoing diagnostic services. All designs are closely coordinated with M&E requirements to ensure buildability and efficient delivery.
Project Management and Stakeholder Coordination
Our project management approach is built around strong, proactive relationships with laboratory managers, estates teams, and clinical stakeholders. We place particular emphasis on understanding laboratory operational pressures and aligning refurbishment programmes with day-to-day service delivery.
By maintaining clear communication channels and collaborative working relationships, we ensure that build programmes are efficient, realistic, and responsive to operational needs.
Programme risks are identified early, mitigation strategies are agreed collaboratively, and disruption to laboratory activities is minimised wherever possible.
Our role as both contractor and project delivery partner allows for faster decision-making, reduced interfaces, and a smoother overall delivery process.
Construction Phase Delivery
During the construction phase, we deliver refurbishment and enabling works with a strong focus on safety, infection prevention, and operational continuity. Works are carefully sequenced to minimise disruption, with strict controls around noise, vibration, dust, and access.
We manage coordination with hospital teams, oversee commissioning and validation activities, and support a structured handover process to ensure refurbished laboratory spaces are fully operational and ready for use. Our integrated role ensures that construction delivery aligns precisely with the agreed design intent and operational requirements.
By combining our construction expertise with expanded technical, design, and project management capabilities, we offer a single, accountable partner for laboratory refurbishment and enabling works. This integrated approach reduces risk, improves programme certainty, and ensures that laboratory environments are upgraded efficiently, safely, and in alignment with future diagnostic needs.