NHS MRI facilities, Edinburgh and Glasgow

Electrical design services for multiple MRI installations within live healthcare environments, including facilities at the Queen's Medical Research Institute at Edinburgh BioQuarter, the Clinical Research Imaging Centre, New Victoria Hospital and Stobhill Hospital.

Each installation sat inside an operational hospital. The constraint was rarely the equipment: it was what could be isolated, when, and what kept the rest of the department running while it happened.

MRI also brings requirements that ordinary hospital electrical design does not. The scanner's own supply, the containment routed around it and the coordination with the equipment supplier all have to resolve together, and all have to satisfy NHS standards alongside the project requirements.

A scan room is also a shielded room. The RF cage and the magnet's fringe field between them govern what may be installed, where cables may cross the boundary and what has to pass through a waveguide or filter plate rather than a hole — which makes containment routing a decision taken with the equipment supplier at the outset, not a coordination exercise afterwards.

Specialist electrical infrastructure, power distribution upgrades and containment systems, designed in coordination with the MRI equipment suppliers.

Careful planning and stakeholder engagement were essential throughout — to minimise disruption to operational healthcare facilities while ensuring compliance with NHS standards and project requirements.