Worcester Hospital
Worcester, UK
Project outline
New Build Acute Hospital with a major Accident and Emergency Department.
Project includes Accident and Emergency, 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
£50,000,000
Key features
- 462 bed General Hospital
- 38,000m² Accommodation, up to 3 storey’s
- Main entrance atria
- 550 car parking spaces
- PFI contract
- Concrete frame construction
- 7.2m Structural grid
- 325 mm 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
Appointment
- Structural
- Building Services
- Infrastructure
- Geotechnical
- Acoustics