Work Starts on City Centre Health & Well-being Facility in Hull Work has started on a new, £16 million health and well-being
centre at the heart of Hull city centre following the achievement of financial close on the project. Wilberforce Health Centre is to be built on the former site of the Gratton store in Story Street, Hull. HLM Architects’ design, which was commissioned by Citycare, a public private partnership between the city’s primary care trust NHS Hull, construction company Sewell Group, Community Health Partnerships and The UME Group for Primary Care Trust NHS Hull, will create facilities for a walk-in GP service. The new centre is being developed as part of the national NHS Local Improvement Finance Trust (LIFT) programme and will provide access to a GP for both registered and non- registered patients between 8am and 8pm, every day of the year. It will bring a wide range of other health services under one roof, including access to a range of other health services including sexual health and addictions, as well as a cafe on site. HLM’s design of the new centre is in keeping with its prominent city centre location, providing a new civic focus which revitalises the area, adds to previous regeneration developments and complements the Albion Square development plan. Jo Barnes, chief executive of Citycare, said: "Wilberforce
Health Centre will provide a range of high-quality health services for the people of Hull. It is the tenth, and largest, scheme Citycare is developing as part of the LIFT programme in Hull. Its location in the heart of the city centre means that thousands of residents will benefit from a variety of services delivered in modern, welcoming surroundings. This marks another step forward in the delivery of real choice and convenience for patients and the public in Hull." Neil Orpwood at HLM Architects added: “Our design integrates with
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the community and the urban grain, providing potential for night time use, linking to its surroundings, and making the most of the site in terms of functionality, sustainability and views to and from the site.” The building is expected to become operational in late 2011.
Centre to be Repeatedly Set Alight The UK’s leading flooring event, National Floor Show, is to move to become part of interiors 2011. The show was due to take place from 7-9 September 2010 at The NEC, but will now take place at the same venue from 23-26 January 2011. Portfolio Director Andrew Vaughan commented: “Due to tough economic and industry conditions, and in consultation with the marketplace, we have decided to re-position National Floor Show within our portfolio’s flagship event. As experienced exhibition organisers, our focus has always been to deliver return on investment for our exhibitors, so we have decided to offer flooring companies the opportunity to exhibit at the UK’s largest trade interiors show. National Floor Show will benefit from being part of this influential
architectural practice Bond Bryan has designed a new fire
training building for South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, where fire-fighting skills are
practised, as well as two new fire stations. The training building, now completed, is
the most technologically advanced fire training facility in the UK and has been specially designed to be set on fire several times a day and create realistic conditions likely to be encountered in many types of real fire situations. The two new Bond Bryan-designed fire stations have also been completed, in Cudworth and in Dearne Valley, also for the South Yorkshire Fire Service. Bond Bryan’s Stephen Mitchell admits the building was an unusual brief: “Designing a building which has to be frequently, and safely, set on fire demands an alternative design approach from our standard practice of ensuring buildings don’t catch fire. For the training building we had to provide a range of realistic scenarios that fire-fighters may experience in real emergencies, such as live carbonaceous burns, working at height and flash-over training. Sophisticated specialist computer controlled equipment ensures scenarios can be created and accurately reproduced on demand.”
The original training building lasted nine years and was built from steel shipping containers. The new one is built of reinforced concrete, robust engineering bricks and dense block work and is designed to last much longer. It is the most technologically advanced fire training facility in the UK. Both of the new fire stations have been designed to be environmentally sustainable. Dearne Valley incorporates the use of 100m deep ground source heat pumps linked to the underfloor heating, rainwater harvesting and photovoltaic panels. Additionally, a wild flower meadow has been planted to increase biodiversity and provide habitats for new species of insects and wildlife. Bond Bryan worked with project managers Turner & Townsend on all three buildings.
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interiors event, which this year welcomed over 600 exhibitors and in excess of 25,000 visitors, over 7,000 of which were specifically interested in rugs and floor coverings. Sunny Patel, Group Sales Manger, commented: “interiors is a very
strong brand which attracts tens of thousands of visitors every year, including the 7,000 who are already interested in flooring. I look forward to seeing National Floor Show take place alongside other complementary interiors products in Hall 2”. National Floor Show will run from 23-26 January 2011 at The NEC, Birmingham.
St Editha’s Tamworth
Norman & Underwood, the oldest architectural metal roofing and glazing company in the country, is currently undertaking a programme of refurbishment and conservation works on the Church of St Editha in Tamworth led by Architects Brownhill, Hayward, Brown of Staffordshire. Darrell Warren, Director of Roofing and Stained Glass at Norman & Underwood feels that they are ideally placed to ensure that St Editha’s can weather another seven hundred years “St Editha’s was built in the late 14th and early 15th centuries and we will be sand casting the lead for the Nave roof in much the same way as the original artisans would have done when the building was new.” The timbers and masonry of the Nave roof will also be restored, returning
the roof to its former glory. In addition to their roofing experts, Norman & Underwood’s glazing specialists will also be restoring the clerestory windows which date from the 1870’s – almost fifty years after Norman & Underwood began their business. It is this shared heritage along with Norman & Underwood’s knowledge of traditional skills and techniques which will be key to the successful and sympathetic restoration of St Editha’s. Keith Learoyd, Head of Conservation at Norman & Underwood, said
“Projects like St Editha’s are always satisfying, when a building has held an important place in a community for so long it becomes more than the sum of its parts, and the conservation of such buildings is something of a ‘duty of care’ rather than just a building job.”
National Floor Show Moves Alongside the UK’s Biggest Event for the Interiors Industry
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