TELECOMS, IT and computer installations company Clearline Communications has a key contract at South Tees Acute Hospital in Middlesbrough.

Clearline installed 500,000 metres of Category5 low smoke, zero halogen structured cabling.

An additional 30,000 metres of multimode fibre optic cabling, 8,000 telephone and data points, and more than 90 communications cabinets have been installed as part of the contract, which has taken nearly three years to complete.

The total value of the contract on completion was £1.2m, and at the most intensive period of works, Clearline had up to 30 engineers working on the project. It was one of the largest contracts awarded in the UK industry.

The £160m redevelopment of the South Tees Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, a joint venture between Mowlem and Crown House Engineering brings South Tees Acute Hospital, Middlesbrough General and North Riding Infirmary together on one site.

The consortium is one of the UK's largest construction and electrical/mechanical contractors.

Clearline's role was to project manage and install the telephone and computer network infrastructure for the whole hospital, which was a massive task.

The hospital now has a much higher bandwidth connection which combined with the high specification of the new network will give computer users at the hospital much quicker access to the information they need.