Refurbishing a ward inside a working hospital is a different job to fitting out a new build. The rest of the hospital keeps running, access has to be maintained, and every product has to satisfy the standards a clinical environment is held to before it goes anywhere near a door.

Barnetts supplied hardware for the C Block Ward 16 refurbishment at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, selecting products against the full set of requirements a healthcare environment carries. That runs from DDA accessibility through to finishes suited to infection control, alongside the fire and egress duties that apply to any hospital opening.

Because the whole schedule was coordinated in one place, the ward received hardware that works together across accessibility, fire and hygiene, rather than a collection of items that each solve one problem and create another. On a live hospital site, that coordination is what keeps a refurbishment moving.