Wates set to complete Royal London covid work in breakneck five weeks

By Dave Rogers2020-04-27T05:00:00

Whitechapel job is firm’s first for Barts trust

Wates is expecting to complete a scheme to turn two out-of-use floors at the Royal London Hospital into nearly 180 beds for covid-19 patients later this week – less than five weeks after it began.

The firm has been working on the scheme in Whitechapel, east London, day and night since 26 March after being asked by the St Bart’s NHS Trust to turn levels 14 and 15 of the hospital into six wards with 176 beds and 117 clinical support rooms.

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