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buildings relatively low-rise. It was important that the new building be of an appropriate scale to help reinstate a more traditional ‘urban’ tenemental building height. The historic street pattern, intact around
Parkhead Cross Conservation Area to the south, breaks down around the site, although it is interesting to note that a tenemental street pattern didn’t exist to the north due to industrial uses that dominated the area. The site is directly opposite The Forge Shopping Centre, offering great opportunities for the new Hub facilities to be accessed by many people already visiting Parkhead for work, retail, or leisure.
All public waiting areas will have views onto the courtyards.
implementation of the Moving Forward Together programme. Alongside a range of multidisciplinary professionals and partners from the third and voluntary sectors, there will be access to alternative services, complementing the range of acute services, thereby contributing to improving access to services and addressing health inequalities.
Bringing it all together The project is being delivered using the Scottish Futures Trust hub procurement initiative, with capital funding from the Scottish Government. A key development partner for the project, working alongside NHS GGC, is Hub West Scotland Limited (HWS). This project will represent the tenth and largest project to have been successfully delivered by HWS for NHS GGC over the now 10-year partnership. In consultation with NHS GGC, HWS assembled a design and construction team to design and deliver the project as follows: n Contractor: BAM Construction. n Architect: Hoskins Architects n Mechanical Electrical and Civil Structural: AECOM.
n Fire: Jenson Hughes (JGA). n Cost Consultant and Principal Designer: Currie and Brown.
n Quality Monitor: Thomas and Adamson. In following the hub procurement
process, the team has worked in a highly collaborative manner with NHS GGC, its advisers, NHS Scotland Assure, Health Facilities Scotland, and a range of project stakeholders placed at the centre to understand the clients’ aspirations, requirements, and drivers, and then deliver a first-class design and construction solution.
Design story The project’s three main partners aim to deliver a new building that is open and
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welcoming, creating a caring environment for everyone accessing services. Wayfinding between services will be clear, simple, and intuitive, to make it easy for people to access better integrated teams of staff working across health and social care disciplines. It is expected that the building will create a sense of civic pride, and be a local landmark – a flexible, adaptable building capable of future expansion, a design that offers a safe, secure space for all users, and training spaces for social care staff from across the city in 11,200 m2
of accommodation.
Location The chosen location, close to Parkhead Cross, is in an area of focus for a range of regeneration initiatives, including the development of large retail outlets in the 1980s and 1990s, through to more recent legacy developments of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. However, it remains an area of the city with large portions of vacant land, lots of surface car parking, and significant busy roads that divide neighbourhoods. Local community consultation through a number of initiatives in recent years has highlighted concerns about a lack of green space, poor quality/poorly maintained built environment, and excess traffic. These challenges have been carefully considered in the choice of site, and it is the project partners’ aim that the new Hub building will help improve the environment of the Parkhead area.
Urban character The site comprises three historic urban blocks with long boundaries to the north and south, so the provision of public routes across and through the site was considered important to help integrate the development with its surroundings. The site has a very open aspect on all sides, with the majority of neighbouring
Site strategy The new building is to be located on the corner of Duke Street and East Wellington Street, allowing the main entrance to face the busy Duke St with a new public plaza in front of the building – a generous space for local community use, as much as by the people using the Hub facilities. Parkhead Library will relocate into the Hub, with large rooms available for community groups to use 7 days a week. The building will have its own car park, with a dedicated drop-off zone close to the front entrance. However, many visitors to it will walk, cycle, and use the bus and taxi services on Duke Street. There will be cycle storage provision, and the plaza will allow barrier-free access to the building, whether coming from the Cross, the shopping centre, the bus stop, or the car park.
Building organisation The Parkhead Hub building will be four storeys tall, with accommodation arranged around three generous courtyards. This will allow natural daylight into all the rooms, and provide attractive garden spaces for use by anyone visiting the Hub. Children waiting for appointments can play in the courtyards, and library users will make use of a courtyard for reading groups and storytelling. All public waiting areas will have views onto the courtyards. The library, café, community
group rooms, children’s department, physiotherapy, and podiatry, will all be located on the ground floor, while the first floor will house three GP practices and a large Adult Services department, plus a suite of acute service rooms for consultations that would normally have to take place in a hospital setting. The second floor will have sexual health and community dental facilities. The first and second floors will be easily accessed via two large public lifts or a generous main stair in the central foyer area, visible upon arrival. The second floor will incorporate staff office accommodation, and the top floor a training centre for HSCP staff from all over the city.
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