ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN


Glasgow Blonde stone, while the inpatient pavilions and the Women and Children’s centre feature a reconstituted stone finish reminiscent of white ‘Galloway’ granite, in a nod to the region’s heritage. In the central building, medical facilities include an Integrated Emergency Care Centre – comprising an Accident and Emergency facility (A&E), a combined assessment unit and fracture and orthopaedic unit, critical care units, an oncology centre, an ambulatory care centre, and a surgical complex with eight operating theatres and four endoscopy procedure suites.


Circulation routes


Open, social spaces have been designed to encourage patients to move around, and circulation routes include rest spaces for older patients, as well as areas intended to promote interaction between staff from different departments. Circulation routes in the hospital are segregated by floor to facilitate maximum efficiency, avoiding clashes, so that outpatient and visitor flow is largely confined to the ground floor, while inpatient flow – linking the maternity and surgical wards to the operating suites and critical care centre – is on the first floor. Traffic from facilities and hospital management mainly flows on the lower-ground level. These


Jane McElroy


Jane McElroy, RIBA, – principal at NBBJ London – has over 25 years’ experience in healthcare, residential, corporate, and community architecture. During the past 15 years she has focused primarily on healthcare projects, ranging in scope from a highly acclaimed ambulatory care and diagnostic centre, to major academic teaching hospitals. In particular, she directs her efforts to initial briefing, user consultation, medical planning, and the integration of these aspects within the broader design context, together with a focus on the human experiential aspects of healthcare buildings.


She has worked on several of the largest new medical centre and hospital projects in the UK and Ireland, including the Dumfries and Galloway


circulation routes are designed with clear wayfinding features, which facilitate efficient movement of traffic both inside and out. The entrances to the main block and the Accident and Emergency centre can both be seen clearly upon approaching the hospital, creating a ‘decision point’ for people arriving at the


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Acute Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, and is an innovator in surgical suite design, the design of wards and patient rooms, and women’s and children’s facilities. She has been involved in several of the first schemes in the UK to incorporate exclusively single patient rooms.


Jane McElroy is a member of the Executive Committee of Architects for Health, and a Design Council CABE Building Environment Expert.


campus, and providing a clear route to those needing to access emergency care. Set to serve many small, widespread and diverse communities within the 2,400 square miles covered by NHS Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland’s South West, the hospital is on track to achieve a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating.


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