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| PFI GENERAL HOSPITAL | |
| with Steffian Bradley Architects | |
| CLIENT: | Skanska Innisfree |
| LOCATION: | Walsall, West Midlands |
| AREA: | 50,000sqm |
| VALUE: | £145 million |
| PROCUREMENT: | PFI |
Jaime Bishop was the Project Designer (at Steffian Bradley Architects) of the proposed PFI scheme and the project team manager at the time of financial close.
Walsall is currently undergoing significant revival, a major component of which is the Manor Hospital Redevelopment. Canal-side residential and mixed use developments will link the hospital with the town centre elevating the profile of the waterside pedestrian route.
The new Walsall Manor Hospital extension will rationalise and rejuvenate the fragmented hospital campus, with the introduction of new buildings comprising a Diagnostic Treatment Centre; Women, Children and Young Persons Centre; and an Education Centre. Careful planning integrates the retained buildings to the new which wrap the existing nucleus hospital providing a new elevation and outlook for the entire hospital site.
The development amalgamates numerous existing entrances to a single point of access into a main civic area with clear and obvious links to all parts of the health campus. Internal health planning has created the opportunity for external multi-coloured lanterns which articulate the elevations. The top floor Education Centre houses the Walsall Health Library & Information Service with lecture halls for undergraduate, postgraduate and continued medical education and training. This centre will provide state of the art education facilities for students and health professionals worldwide.
The project is currently on site and due for completion in 2010.
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