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Plans for GOSH’s new entrance building approved
Camden Council’s Planning Committee has granted planning permission for BDP’s proposed new entrance building for London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital. Last year 1,200 children visited GOSH
for specialist cancer treatment; childhood cancer remains the leading cause of death in children aged 1-14. The Great Ormond Street Hospital for
Children NHS Foundation Trust’s cancer clinics are currently situated in 1930s buildings, with services scattered across the campus. The new Children’s Cancer Centre will mean children are treated together, in a bespoke environment, with a focus on play and physical and educational activities alongside treatment. The centre will include cancer wards, cancer day care, new theatres, and an intensive care unit, plus new imaging equipment, and a specialised chemotherapy pharmacy. Accommodating young people with
rare and difficult-to-treat cancers, the new Children’s Cancer Centre sits at the heart of the development, and the concept design required BDP’s multidisciplinary teams to think sensitively about its scale. BDP explained: “Conceptually, the design plays with ideas of ‘House’ and ‘Garden’, with conscious allusions to home life scattered throughout. These themes allowed us to focus on redefining the sense of scale throughout the project, which informed a more intimate, child- friendly dimension. This has helped
change the perception of the cancer centre, bringing it in line with the varying dimensions of surrounding buildings, and remaining sympathetic to the wider neighbourhood’s residential character.” Many of the design concepts evolved
from consultations with GOSH’s ‘Young Person’s Forum’, a group of young patients. The most popular theme expressed was ‘nature’, followed by ‘home away from home’, and ‘indoor- outdoor’. Architect Principal, Benedict Zucchi, said: “The design concept, which evolved through intensive engagement with patients, families, and staff, gives the hospital state-of-the-art cancer facilities, and a welcoming new entrance and a rooftop garden for everyone’s enjoyment. To be able to give this world-leading children’s hospital and its employees more space, and better working and healthcare environments, means so much to our whole multidisciplinary team. We are so delighted to have received conditional planning permission.”
Electrical upgrade for Queen
Elizabeth Hospital
McLaren Construction has been appointed on behalf of Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust to deliver site-wide infrastructure works to the 482-bedded Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich. It says the ‘circa £30 m capital
cost’ investment will bring improved estate resilience by delivering new primary high-voltage and low-voltage electricity distribution, back-up generators, a refurbished energy centre, a new vacuum insulated evaporator compound, and associated structural and building works. Ventilation improvements include replacement of the air-handling units serving the theatres, Pathology, the delivery suite, SCIBU, and ward areas. McLaren Construction said: “The
works require around 6 km of armoured electrical cable, including 1 km of HV electrical cable, 1.3 km of busbars, nine new air-handling units, 19 refurbished AHUs, and three 1.5 kVA generators.” McLaren engaged with clinicians,
the Estates team, the FM provider, and other stakeholders, to develop an 80-week programme to support the Trust’s ‘business as usual’ policy.
April 2023 Health Estate Journal 15
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