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Topping out at Pembury Hospital

Yesterday afternoon, I was invited by the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust to attend the 'topping out' ceremony at the new Pembury Hospital. Although still very much a building site, the last of the concrete was poured yesterday in the acute hospital building. Laing O'Rourke's Chief Operating Officer Tony Douglas highlighted the difference between the state-of-the-art hospital and the original Victorian workhouse which has stood on the site since the 1860's. "Topping Out" he ...

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