Worcester Hospital

Worcester, UK

Project outline

New-build Acute Hospital with a major Accident and Emergency department, Radio Diagnostics, Theatres, Maternity, Out Patients department, Day Care surgery and wards.

The facility is built into a sloping green field site on which ecological factors have significantly influenced the design of the external works.

Contract value

£50M

Key features

• 462 bed General Hospital
• 38,000m² Accommodation, up to 3 storeys
• Main entrance atria
• 550 car parking spaces
• PFI contract
• Concrete frame construction
• 7.2m Structural grid
• 325mm deep ribbed slab
• Steel framed roof plantroom
• Sloping green field site
• On site storm water retention
• Protection of Ancient Woodland by simulation of natural water runoff via swales and balancing pond.
• Foul water retention, pumping and permanent flow monitoring.
• Accommodation of a steeply sloping site and stepped building construction with the use of timber retaining walls.
• Ecological considerations
• Deep plan air conditioned diagnostic block
• Naturally ventilated ward accommodation with supplementary mechanical ventilation
• 4 laminar flow orthopaedic theatres
• 4 conventional operating theatres
• MRI Suite
• Theatre sterile supplies unit
• Roof plantroom incorporating chillers, emergency generators, package sub-stations, air handling equipment and transformers
• Basement plantroom incorporating boilers, hot water services and medical gases plant
• Generator located in separate building at garden level

Skills utilised

• Structural
• Building Services
• Infrastructure
• Geotechnical and Acoustics