Health & Safety Laboratory

The HSL is Britain's leading health and safety laboratory; it operates as an agency of the Government's Health and Safety Executive, providing research, scientific support and investigative work into workplace accidents and work-related diseases. Under a Private Finance Initiative contract, a new £56.5 million development, will join together HSL's current operations at Sheffield and Buxton into one single modern site.

This extensive site at Harpur Hill, near Buxton allows for large-scale experiments for engineering, fire, explosions and process hazards. The new facility will be made up of corporate offices, analytical laboratories, an engineering test hall and contained experimental laboratories.

Key Features - IT INFRASTRUCTURE

The Project includes a complete IT infrastructure worth £1.65 million provided by Pinacl Solutions

Pinacl Solutions provided consultative advice on HSL's IT requirements, ranging from its central IT infrastructure to advising on the type of telephony network required to support future and emerging technologies.

Provision of a new site-wide fibre and voice infrastructure to ensure that all retained buildings and temporary accommodation keep its voice and data service throughout the project.

Key Features - MANAGED SERVICES

Pinacl Solutions will continue to facilitate the management of the IT infrastructure and provide HSL with voice, desktop and software services over a period of seven and a half years.

Pinacl Solutions will be in charge of managing and maintaining HSL's core IT network, desktop support, applications administration, users support, hardware maintenance and moves and changes.
It will also be providing voice services such as PBX, handsets and pagers supported by a dedicated IT help desk.