Two years ago, the first cracks appeared in the 1is floor of the Canton medical specialties building, within the CHRU Nancy-Brabois regional university hospital center. At the end of 2018, a total of 16 offices were condemned by the management. “Today, nearly 50% of the building is impacted,” explains Stéphane Maire. The secretary CFDT of the Nancy CHRU and secretary of the CHSCT details his remarks: “129 parts are considered dangerous by the CHRU, 332 have apparent cracks which a priori do not yet represent a danger, and in 130 others, cracks are forming. . “
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A commissioned Swiss firm
Faced with this “extremely worrying” situation, the CHSCT, through the CFDT, has filed a right of alert and requests that an independent expert report be carried out “to assess the stability and dangerousness of this hospital”. “A Swiss firm was commissioned to carry it out”, confirms Francis Bruneau, deputy director general of the CHRU Nancy. It should start at the end of the month: “We have asked”, continues the Deputy Director General, “a broader expertise” than the legal expertise requested by the owner of the building, the company Icade, the results of which are expected shortly. “We want to know the nature of the disorders, their causes, the measures to remedy these disorders”, explains Francis Bruneau.
The jewel of the CHRU, this recent building, which rises over 5 floors and 30,000 m2 , with a capacity of 171 beds and 52 outpatient places, which welcomed Covid-19 patients during the crisis, was built between 2008 and 2011 as part of a public-private partnership. In 2007, the hospital signed a 32-year long term hospital lease with Icade , one of the real estate subsidiaries of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, for an annual rent of € 7.3 million, which continues to run.
While awaiting the outcome of the expertises, the CHRU is preparing by working “on various scenarios”. Reinforcement measures? Relocation of 171 beds? What if the building is no longer usable? “For now, we need solid expertise to make decisions,” explains the CHRU.
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“A new ordeal”
The Canton building was to be one of the supports of the new CHRU as part of the real estate plan for the regrouping of surgical and medical activities on the Brabois site, validated by the State last January. A project valued at € 515 million and for which the CHRU is still awaiting the level of investment that will be granted to it.
A “new test”, summarizes Stéphane Maire by showing, here a wall which bulges, cracks which widen, there, in an office, another which starts on a pillar of maintenance of the structure or again, at the sub- ground, a securing prop.
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