Tristan da Cunha Camogli Healthcare Centre Construction

The MV Pacific Askari arrived at TDC on 18th May 2017 with the medical equipment and the two medical commissioning engineers after a rough crossing from Cape Town. The medical engineers and passengers disembarked that evening. The medical equipment was successfully off loaded from the Pacific Askari on Friday 19th May and brought ashore. The first team of nine GT employees embarked on the Pacific Askari around 4 pm the same day - 19 May 2017 - and the ship departed for Cape Town on Saturday afternoon.

Galliford Try are continuing to make good progress. The Healthcare Centre is substantially completed and the final touches being made to the building. The two medical commissioning engineers are now busy commissioning the new and existing medical equipment and are expected to take around 18 days to complete their tasks.

The remaining Galliford Try team are expected to demobilise and depart from Tristan between in early June depending on the weather conditions.

The weather on Saturday 20th May on Tristan is bad, we are in a middle of an infamous south Atlantic storm, so if we hadn't offloaded yesterday (Friday) the vessel would have been waiting another 4 or 5 days for the weather to break to discharge its cargo.

School Art with Kate Aimson

We've all been watching the progress of the new hospital with interest from afar as it's started to take shape. Then, Galliford Try invited St Mary's to come and see how the project is progressing and meet some of the team.

Playgroup and Class 1 were first to visit. They were met by Mark, the Project Leader and Kate the Community Liaison Officer. First, the children were shown around the living quarters which the children thought looked very cool although they were amazed at the size of some of the work boots sitting outside the rooms. Next, they were kitted out with a hard hat and a high viz jacket. These were very stylish but a little bit big for some of the children. Then, Brian showed everyone one of the JCB Loadall and all the children got to have a go at seeing what it would be like to drive it. Tom, the chef, made some amazing chocolate donuts. Lastly, Galliford Try gave the Class 1 and Playgroup two sets of Bob the Builder books that they had thoughtfully bought for us before coming to Tristan. The children really enjoyed these books.

The following week, Class 2, 3, 4 and 5 visited the hospital site. Mark also gave them a tour of the living quarters and then they put on the hard hats and high viz jackets so they could be safe on the site. Class 2 and 3 enjoyed hopping onto Bryan's JCB for a quick photo shoot. Because Class 2,3 ,4 and 5 were a bit older, Mark took them inside the new hospital and explained the layout of all the different rooms. He showed them where the doctors would work and where the patients would stay and the purpose of the other rooms. He explained how some rooms had special walls depending on the medical equipment that would be used in there. The roof was almost finished as well. The children were shown offices where Galliford Try have all the plans and shown an artist's representation of what the hospital will look like when it is finished. There was also a gym with equipment for the Galliford boys to use to keep fit and they told the school that when they finish the project they'll be leaving it for the islanders to use. Then, before the classes left, they also got some of Tom's awesome donuts to finish the tour. When Class 2 and 3 visited it was Tom's birthday so the children sang Happy Birthday.

Everyone really enjoyed seeing how the hospital is coming together and is looking forward to visiting again soon. Thank you, Galliford Try!

Report and photos from Clerk of Works Barry Davies on 22nd February

More images taken by Barry Davies
of work to construct the new
Camogli Healthcare Centre
on 17th January 2017.

Report and photos from Clerk of Works Barry Davies on 7th January 2017

The Galliford Try team reached an important milestone when the floor of the new Camogli Healthcare Centre was completed on Friday 6th January. Weather conditions have not been ideal, as shown in photos below taken on site on 3rd and 6th January, and on Satuirday 7th there was a strong wind and heavy showers as worked progressed.

MV Glory departs Tristan after extended offloading period

Report by Barry Davies

as final off-loading of MV Glory takes place on Boxing Day, 26th December 2016

Offloading of the MV Glory was completed at 18.15 on 26th December 2016. All the materials for the new Camogli Heathcare Centre are now safely onshore at  Tristan da Cunha. MV Glory arrived at Tristanon 4th nOVEMBER, but on only 11 days since has offloading been possible due to the adverse weather conditions. Both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were again unsuitable, but at last, on Boxing Day the Galliford Try team were busy on site and helping islanders to offload MV Glory, which departed at 8.50pm GMT that night.

Report and Photos from Clerk of Works Barry Davies on 24th December

Offloading begins

Starting on Monday 7th November, offloading commenced of the 2500 cubic metres of materials from MV Glory of construction materials, plant and equipment for the new medical facility. See below for photos of the construction and packing of prefabricated sections in Sweden.

Offloading the 2500 cubic metres from the MV Glory to the new hospital construction site will involve most island departments and a lot of congestion and traffic movement around the island can be expected, as containers and crates will stored at various staging points around the island. The Tristan workforce is used to flexible tasking and often 'all hands' are employed offloading vessels to bring crucial supplies ashore quickly as Camogli Harbour is often closed due to poor sea conditions. The island will be praying for good weather so that the huge Healthcare Centre load can be safely and quickly brought ashore for construction.
After unloading MV Glory is expected to depart on 25th November.

MV Glory delivers the new Camogli Healthcare Centre

Shipping Update on 1st November from Cynthia Green

MV Pacific Askari departs Cape Town

MV Glory update

Pre-fabrication of the Camogli Healthcare Centre in Sweden

Clerk of Works for the project Barry Davies, now returned to Tristan preparing for the ship to arrive, visited Sweden in May 2016 and has sent the photo below showing construction of the pre-fabricated sections of the new Camogli Healthcare Centre.