Internal collaboration enabled Instalco to take on its largest project

In autumn 2018 Instalco signed contracts with NCC for the installation of electrical, heating and plumbing systems as part of the expansion of three hospitals in Södermanland. Now most of the work is complete in what is Instalco’s largest project to date. This has been made possible by successful internal collaboration involving around 15 Instalco companies.

NCC has been contracted by Region Sörmland to carry out one of the largest construction projects ever completed in the county of Södermanland. Region Sörmland is building for the future of healthcare and making a major investment in the renovation and expansion of three hospitals: Mälarsjukhuset in Eskilstuna, Kullbergska sjukhuset in Katrineholm and Nyköpings lasarett. The project goes under the collective name Future Hospitals. 

Instalco was awarded the contract by NCC based on a long-standing relationship, primarily with the Instalco companies Rörgruppen and Ohmegi, for example in a successful previous collaboration on the renovation and expansion of Södersjukhuset in Stockholm. The contract for the hospitals in Södermanland consolidates Instalco’s position as the leading installer of electrical, heating and plumbing systems in Swedish hospitals. 

“Through its subsidiaries, Instalco has extensive experience of advanced technical installations in hospital construction projects. The success factor in this project has been our ability to collaborate internally within Instalco in partnership with NCC and Region Sörmland,” says Göran Johnsson, who has been responsible for Instalco’s heating and plumbing installations in the Future Hospitals project. 

The hospital in Eskilstuna is the largest of the three hospitals, and here some premises have been demolished while others have been modernised and new premises have been built. At the hospitals in Katrineholm and Nyköping, both new construction and renovation work have been carried out. Instalco’s task has been to install all the heating and plumbing systems as well as electrical installation from the incoming power supply to all alarm systems and mobile phone networks. 

The assignment is being carried out as a partnering project with a total contract value of around SEK 1.7 billion for Instalco over the years 2018–2025. The project is Instalco’s largest to date. 

“A project of this magnitude naturally brings many challenges. Hospital construction involves extensive and technically complex installations, such as replacing the entire power system while the hospital continues to function,” says Reijo Mustonen, Instalco’s electrical project manager for the Future Hospitals project.

“I’m very proud of the collaboration we’ve organised within Instalco to solve this task. The staffing in particular, but also how we’ve managed the whole process. We’ve had employees from around 15 different Instalco companies involved, from both Sweden and Finland. The project is an excellent example of what the Instalco spirit embodies: a strong desire to solve things together as a team and make everything work.”

Instalco has worked closely with NCC and Region Sörmland from an early stage in the project, enabling it to propose the best and most sustainable solutions. The new state-of-the-art healthcare facilities will have significantly lower energy consumption, be more economic to run and provide a better environment for employees and patients.

Instalco began the planning work back in 2017 and everything is to be completed by the end of 2025.