Expansion joints for hospitals and healthcare
14 projects
Hospitals are the largest single block of work in our record, and they are also the building type where the joint has the most duties to satisfy at once. A joint that is perfectly adequate in an office lobby will generate a maintenance complaint in a hospital corridor within a year.
We design the joint schedule from your drawings, manufacture the systems in India and install them with our own trained crews — one contract and one point of responsibility, rather than a trader supplying profiles and leaving the fixing to whoever is on site.
A hospital joint has a fourth duty that other buildings do not impose
Cleanability, and it outranks almost everything else
Every other building asks a floor joint to move, carry load and stay watertight. A hospital adds a fourth: it has to survive being wet-mopped daily and leave nowhere for fluid or dirt to sit. That single requirement rules out most open-gap details, every raised cover, and any profile with a recess the mop cannot reach. On the ESIC, AIIMS and state medical college work it was the deciding requirement more often than the movement rating was.
Bed and trolley wheels concentrate load in a way feet do not
A hospital bed loaded with a patient and equipment runs on small, hard castors. The contact patch is tiny and the pressure under it is far higher than under a person, and it crosses the same joint line thousands of times a year. Joints that pass a foot-traffic rating comfortably get dented, then rattle, then work their fixings loose. The rating to check is the wheeled point load, not the distributed one.
The joint crosses every compartment line in the building
Hospitals are compartmented far more heavily than commercial buildings, because evacuation is horizontal rather than vertical — patients are moved sideways to an adjacent compartment, not down a stair. A movement joint runs straight through every one of those lines, and an unprotected joint is a continuous open path between compartments. The fire barrier inside the joint has to be continuous, and it has to keep working while the joint moves — which is a tested assembly, not site-installed packing.
Nobody can close the corridor
Almost all of our hospital work is on live or phased sites, including retrofit into existing wings. Work fronts come in short windows, often at night, and each has to be handed back clean and trafficable at the end of the shift. That constrains the system as much as the specification does: anything needing a long cure, a wide exclusion zone or a continuous uninterrupted run is not deliverable on a working hospital floor.
The specification is written long before the tender
Government and institutional healthcare runs on approved-makes lists and third-party inspection. If the system is not named, with its gap, movement class and fire rating, at drawing stage, it will be substituted at fit-out by whatever is cheapest and nominally compliant. Getting the TDS and the ASTM E-1399 class attached to the specification is the single highest-value thing a consultant can do on this building type.
Typical systems on this work: MegAtec 340 and 370 for corridor and ward floors where a flush cleanable surface is the governing requirement, MegAtec 360 for the wall and ceiling returns, FlexAtec 1200 where the run must stay sealed, and SeismAtec 450 where the building is in Zone IV or V and the separation runs wide. The right answer depends on the gap, the movement class, the traffic and the location — send drawings and we will name it per location.
Projects on record
| Project | Client & location | City |
|---|---|---|
| ESIC Hospital (Kolkata) | ESIC / Govt of India · Kolkata, West Bengal · 2019 | Kolkata |
| ESIC Hospital (Kala Amb) | ESIC / Govt of India · Kala Amb, Himachal Pradesh | Kala Amb |
| AIIMS Jodhpur | AIIMS / Govt of India · Jodhpur, Rajasthan | Jodhpur |
| PGI Bhubaneswar | Govt of India / L&T (EPC) · Bhubaneswar, Odisha | Bhubaneswar |
| PGIMER Ferozepur | PGIMER (satellite) · Firozpur, Punjab | Firozpur |
| SCB Medical College & Hospital | Govt of Odisha · Cuttack, Odisha | Cuttack |
| GMCH Jajpur | Govt of Odisha · Jajpur, Odisha | Jajpur |
| CAPFIMS (L&T) | CAPFIMS / Govt of India · New Delhi, Delhi · 2022 | New Delhi |
| SSH Warangal (L&T) | Govt of Telangana · Warangal, Telangana | Warangal |
| CIMS Chhindwara | Govt of Madhya Pradesh · Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh | Chhindwara |
| New Medical College & Hospital (NMCH) | Govt of Assam · Bongaigaon, Assam | Bongaigaon |
| Guwahati Medical College | Govt of Assam · Guwahati, Assam | Guwahati |
| Golaghat Medical College (L&T) | Govt of Assam · Golaghat, Assam | Golaghat |
| Sub-Divisional Hospital, Sarthebari | Shree Gautam Construction · Sarthebari, Assam · 2026 | Sarthebari |
Part of 80+ projects across 40+ cities and 20 states. Defence and security projects under non-disclosure are not listed.
By building type
Each page sets out what that building type actually does to the joint specification, and lists the projects behind it.
Specifying a hospital or medical college?
Send GFC or concept drawings and we will return a location-by-location joint schedule, with the gap, the system and the movement class named.