BDP - Mixed-Use Development - Birmingham, Queen Elizabeth & Selly Oak Hospitals
Date: 28 Jan 2004
University Hospital Birmingham Trust and the Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Trust have announced that they have selected their preferred bidder to replace the existing Queen Elizabeth and Selly Oak Hospitals
Consort Healthcare won the bid with Building Design Partnership’s multidiscipline team, working in conjunction with Nightingale Associates, to design the second largest hospital building project in the UK. The new hospitals are set to revolutionise healthcare design.
BDP, as architects, landscape architects and acoustic consultants, are responsible for the design of the site masterplan and the 1246 bed acute teaching hospital on the Queen Elizabeth site for the University Hospital Birmingham Trust. Nightingale Associates are architects for mental health units for the Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Trust consisting of 137 beds in three separate smaller units on the campus. Two further units of 45 and 21 beds will be developed away from the main site to provide services closer to the communities they serve with combined outreach and inreach services for local residents.
Andrew Smith, BDP Project Director, said of the announcement “This is excellent news for BDP and Consort Healthcare who worked closely to together on this winning bid. BDP’s design builds on extensive work that the Trust have undertaken in preparing an innovative clinical brief and has been guided by intensive consultation with the Trust’s clinical review groups and other health community stakeholders. Our design is focussed on the concerns of the individual patient. The design will support the efficient provision of the best possible clinical service in an environment that is attractive and uplifting, not only for patients themselves, but also their visitors and the staff who provide their care.
The scheme will also create world class teaching, training and research centres. A pedestrian plaza complete with public artworks will link the hospital campus with Birmingham University's medical school making it easy to transfer the skills learnt in the lecture theatre straight to the bedside. Part of the scheme will include a new clinical science centre in conjunction with the University of Birmingham designed to interface closely with service outcomes and improvements.
The Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (currently housed at Selly Oak Hospital) will relocate to the new hospital and will form an integral part of the new development. It will provide new training and administrative accommodation for the RCDM.
The project will be built by a construction joint venture comprising Balfour Beatty, Haden Young and AWG. Phased opening of this £521M new hospital for Birmingham hospital is expected to begin in 2008/9.
Other members of the design team include civil & structural engineers White Young Green and M&E engineers Hulley & Kirkwood and Couch Perry & Wilkes.
New Birmingham Hospitals
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