News

September 29, 2022

St Luke’s Cancer Centre

AMA are working for the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust on the refurbishment of St Luke’s Cancer Centre; the region’s major cancer treatment centre. Construction has recently started on site and is expected to last 18 months.

Here is a video of the scheme by the Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, images are provided by architects BoonBrown.

September 20, 2022

Milford Xray

AMA are working for Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust to design fully HTM compliant MEP services for new xray department. The new xray department is located within an existing building at Milford Hospital.

August 2, 2022

Annual award for recycling

Our paper use has reduced over the years as digital copies have replaced hard copy drawings and specifications. We still recyle all the paper and carboard in our office and last year saved an equivalent amount of one tree.

July 21, 2022

AMA team day out

AMA team had a well deserved day out to the Sussex countryside. We took the train to East Chiltington and walked to the Jolly Sportsman pub for lunch. On the way back we visited one of the largest yew trees in Sussex; the 1200 year old female yew in the churchyard of the 12th century parish church.

July 19, 2022

St. Richard’s ED completed to RIBA Stage 4 with Stabicad for Revit

We have completed RIBA Stage 4 mechanical and electrical services design 3D Building Information Modelling (BIM) for the Emergency Department refurbishment project at St. Richard’s Hospital in Chichester. This is our first project using Trimble Stabicad M&E plugins for Revit. Stabicad integrates the CIBSE accredited M&E calculations within Revit. Revit enables us to work collaboratively and simultaneously from different locations; the office and remotely from home.

June 7, 2022

Bexhill Community Diagnostic Centre

AMA are working for East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust designing MEP services for a new community diagnostic hub in Bexhill. The project is now on site and includes the conversion of a former car showroom to a near net zero building with state of the art diagnostic equipment. New Community Diagnostic Centres are opening across the country to divert patients away from hospitals to reduce the risk of Covid-19 transmission and waiting times. Image by HDS Architects.

February 21, 2022

Welcome Maria!

Maria Balboa joins AMA as an intermediate building services engineer, working predominantly in our electrical team. Welcome Maria!

January 10, 2022

CFD Ventilation Modelling

Appointed by East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust to carry out computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling of mechanical ventilation in 6 bed bays at Conquest Hospital, to analyse and test effective ventilation strategies for improved infection control of patients. Part of the study involves real data capture to validate the CFD modelling.

November 28, 2021

Bexhill Diagnostics Centre

We are working for East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust to design M&E services for a new diagnostic hub. The project is part of a government initiative to provide diagnostic healthcare services in the community outside of the main hospital environment. The site has a limited power supply which is making this design challenging.