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Podcast: Saving Time, Saving Lives

Here is an incredible story about how design and construction of the Grange University Hospital in South Wales was affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Tune in this episode of Engineering Matters podcast to hear from WSP’s Stuart Renshaw, Technical Director and Laing O’Rourke’s David Leverton, Technical Project Leader, who explain that, as society shut down and hospitals reached breaking point, project engineers were able to bring their ingenuity to the fore to make sure that the 450 bed critical care facility in Cwmbran, South Wales, was completed ahead of schedule.

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