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the energy requirements of the building. Integrated design between AD Architects and M&E consultants TB&A, using thermal modelling, demonstrated how the shading from the louvres removed the need for cooling to the entrance building while still allowing for full double-storey curtain walling and the benefits of the views in and out that this brings. The louvres and shape of the building also form a distinctive and memorable way-finding element on the site that distinguishes it as an important entrance.” The atrium-style effect of the entrance building has indeed
made it a focal point. As home to the reception area, with patient and visitor waiting areas on two levels, it also has a very real functional purpose. Outside, an inviting and enclosed courtyard garden, with flexible seating, has been included for the benefit of all. Manu Shah, NHS in-house project manager, says the work at
the maternity unit benefits from “very modern design, full of natural light.” He continues: “Internal design reflects input from all the stakeholders – patients, clinicians, midwives and other staff who gave their time to ensure the building could help deliver care in line with national guidelines and always with the interests of mothers and their babies at heart. Any resemblance to an institution or a hospital, in the interior of the building, has been minimised wherever it can be and there is a rather homely feel about the place.” Improvements for expectant mums include birthing rooms
with en-suite bathrooms and three new birthing pools. In the maternity unit’s old building, extensive refurbishment has pro- vided for two new obstetric theatres with support and recovery spaces, the neonatal intensive care unit, special care baby unit and day assessment unit, as well as parent overnight accommoda-
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tion and bereavement rooms. And to help successfully integrate all these new spaces and facilities into the main hospital, special thought has gone into making way-finding easier. High levels of insulation have helped the maternity unit attain
a BREEAM Excellent rating, but other sustainability features include heating that will be delivered from the central campus- wide combined heat and power plant, which is on schedule for completion in 2012. Light-emitting diode and other low- wattage lighting has been used and existing equipment retained wherever practicable, while timber used for the entrance façade was responsibly sourced. The new two-storey wing of the maternity unit was the first
project where Innovare Systems i-SIP panels were used on a concrete-framed building. Around 1,000 sq m of the infill panels formed the internal backing leaf of the brick-faced external walls. Colin Gush, sector director at Medicinq Osborne, explains: “Speed of build is a major factor when we undertake healthcare
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