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partitioning featuring artwork by Scottish artist Liz Myhill, whose designs also appear on glazing elsewhere in the main building. Like the wards, the main building features a number of light wells to bring additional daylight in.
Gas and combined heat and power
generators provide electricity and hot water, with excess heat recycled via underfloor heating in the larger ground floor spaces. A mixture of opening windows and mechanical ventilation control the interior environment, and there is a plan to supply much of the water from a natural aquifer under the site. These features, combined with excellent insulation, LED lighting and appropriate solar-controlled glazing, have resulted in a BREEAM Very Good rating.
All structures have piled foundations and are concrete-framed with high- quality precast concrete panels with architectural finishes on the facades. Steel frames create the pavilion shapes, topped with grey aluminium or zinc standing seam metal roofing. The building extensively uses offsite-
manufactured, precast components – a speciality of Laing O’Rourke – bringing the benefits of quick, accurate and cost- effective construction.
A ‘hospital without compromise’
With the building now firmly on target for completion in September, Bell says: “We set out to deliver a hospital without compro- mise to provide excellent healthcare for people in the region. A hospital that maximises the potential of its wonderful location by bringing the qualities of the surrounding landscape into the site and capturing the healing properties of light and views to nature, to provide excellent health- care for people in the region. “The successful delivery of a project on this scale within such a demanding programme, will be a significant achievement only made possible by a great team effort. “We hope we’ve created an uplifting, healing campus environment offering an attractive and highly effective setting for patients, staff and visitors – a truly person-centred hospital.”
DESIGN IN MENTAL HEALTH STAND NO 209
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