DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION
Complex build challenges for London PBT facility
Edward Williams, an architect who runs his own practice, Edward Williams Architects, and Sheila Carney, director of Scott Tallon Walker Architects, and a specialist in the healthcare and science and research sector, discuss the challenges of designing the NHS in England’s second proton beam therapy centre, for University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, in a central London location – close to existing infrastructure such as underground ‘tube’ lines – and explain how the major obstacles were overcome.
The building is essentially L-shaped in plan, running the length of Grafton Way and returning down Huntley Street, flanked at one end by Tottenham Court Road, and at the other by University Street and the UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) viewed the development of its new Proton Beam Therapy centre in the Grafton Way Building at University College Hospital as an urgent and vital milestone in the process of improving healthcare for the local community – by moving existing services to an integrated and centralised campus, and introducing a world-leading proton beam therapy unit as a significant enhancement to therapeutic cancer treatment services throughout the UK. The vision for the new hospital was to create a world-class, modern, safe, and responsive healthcare environment which would in turn will facilitate better clinical outcomes, as well as an improved environment for staff, patients, and visitors, with clinical services that reflect UCLH as a world-class centre of excellence.
Vacant cinema site The vacant former Odeon Cinema site was located on Grafton Way / Tottenham Court Road, and formed part of the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) estate portfolio. The selected
Key facts
Contract value: £217 m approx. (Construction cost, excluding equipment), funded by the NHS. Total size: 37,000 m2
approx.
Project team Client: University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Main contractor: Bouygues UK. Architects: Scott Tallon Walker Architects in association with Edward Williams Architects. Structural engineer: Campbell Reith & Partners. M&E engineer: Arup (Pre-Contract); WSP (Construction). Fire engineer: Capita. Landscape architect: Anna French Associates. Client Project Manager: AECOM. Client QS: Ridge & Partners.
June 2022 Health Estate Journal 63
Courtesy of Edward Williams Architects / Scott Tallon Walker
Photos courtesy of Paul Raftery
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