The Spire Manchester Hospital
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panels. Any removal of trees during construction was delayed until after birds had finished nesting, and new trees will be planted as replacements as soon as construction allows. With the project being relatively fast-paced – work started
on-site in April 2015 – building information modelling (BIM) has proved very helpful for collaboration between Halliday Meecham and the project’s structural engineers and M&E consultants. “It meant we could identify and eliminate any clashes far earlier, that is before we got on-site,” says Phil.
Plans to make campus a hi-tech business park
Spire bought the land, which comprised an overflow car park and a grassed area, from Siemens. The plot is a part of the German engineering company’s Princess Road campus, another part of which is already occupied by Sir William Siemens House. Spire Healthcare’s new hospital is the first stage in a long-term plan to develop a technology and healthcare-focused business park. Halliday Meecham has worked with Spire Healthcare on
hospital projects for more than a decade now and is currently helping to build another hospital for the company in Tollerton, south Nottingham, which also opens in 2017. Phil says: “People’s expectations of healthcare have risen.
The design of hotels and shops has moved on and hospital designs need to keep up. “What we want to do in Manchester is make sure this new
hospital has a very a different kind of feel to it than other hospitals – very much a 21st century building using 21st century materials.”
‘People's expectations of healthcare have risen... and hospital designs need
to keep up’ Phil Hewer, healthcare director, Halliday Meecham Architects
Architect: Halliday Meecham Main contractor: Vinci Building Contractors Project manager: Turner and Townsend M&E: Parsons Brinckerhoff Glazing and curtain walling: Kawneer Rainscreen cladding: Carea External louvres: Levolux Green roof: Sika Trocal Solar panels: Bauder Metal cladding: Alucobond Flat roof generally: Sika Trocal/Bauder Ceilings: CEP Flooring: Tarkett Plasterboard: British Gypsum Timber doors: European Doors FFE:Workspace External paving: Marshalls
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The hospital's hybrid 150- seat education centre will be a facility available to the wider medical community and offer spectacular cityscape views
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