For a major PFI hospital site, the atmosphere is surprisingly calm. There are few workers around and everything looks uncharacteristically tidy. In fact, the site has the feel of a just-finished concrete frame, waiting for the first stages of the services and internal partitioning to be installed. But in this area of the new building at Whiston hospital, which is part of the £338m St Helens & Knowsley Hospitals PFI, work has progressed far beyond that stage. Sixty-five per cent of the services are complete and the bathrooms are finished and ready to go, parked on the slab like a series of garden sheds. The ductwork, cabling and pipework are also nearly finished, despite the lack of the usual internal partitions.
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