MARTINA CARDI – DIRECTOR AND ARCHITECTURAL HEALTHCARE LEAD, BRYDEN WOOD, UK HOSPITAL DESIGN
Building better to elicit more value for money
Bryden Wood architect Martina Cardi explains how it helped deliver a cutting-edge, best-in-class hospital in the UK that cost 30 per cent less to build than comparable facilities. Along with reducing cost, Bryden Wood’s work on Circle Birmingham Hospital focused on sustainability, reducing carbon in both construction and operation, as well as designing in flexibility for future developments – both known and unknown.
Bryden Wood are the architects and engineers of a new facility in Edgbaston, a suburb of Birmingham in the English Midlands in the United Kingdom. The purpose of the Circle Birmingham Hospital project was to deliver a new, best-in-class hospital – England’s largest bespoke rehabilitation hospital. Its aim is to combine outstanding clinical outcomes and patient safety, with an excellent experience for patients, staff and visitors – all in a building that is architecturally, technically and sustainably outstanding. Circle Birmingham Hospital is the
second hospital Bryden Wood design for Circle Health, and we incorporated all the learning from designing the award- winning Circle Reading Hospital into this new project. The Reading hospital, opened in 2012,
was designed to increase in scale from Circle Bath Hospital and adapt to the local need while maintaining the patient experience focus. As a testament to the success of this approach, Circle Reading Hospital was awarded with the Building Better Healthcare Award for ‘Best Internal Environment’ in the ‘Patient Experience’ category.
In addition to prioritising patient
experience, our designs for Circle Health hospitals have had to adapt to a changing healthcare landscape. The challenges to operational mobilisation and different funding flows in Circle Reading identified
Martina Cardi
Martina Cardi MAarch(Hons.), ARB is director and architectural healthcare lead of Bryden Wood, UK. Martina joined Bryden
Wood in 2015. After leading an integrated design team for the Circle Birmingham Hospital and Rehabilitation project, from conception to completion through a number of design and construction phases, Martina is now involved in a number of
healthcare schemes of different sizes and clinical briefs, ranging from advanced oncotherapy to health and wellbeing hubs. Martina’s focus is to ensure clinical excellence is maintained while
MMC exemplar solutions are deployed. Thanks to her experience gained on a number of DfMA and MMC programmes in other sectors, Martina is now leading the ‘NHP Pathfinders assessment’ of eight of the UK’s New Hospital
Programme schemes to assist in maximising the MMC opportunities at programme level. Martina is also acting as technical advisor for a number of NHS Trusts.
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the need to employ a design that could respond to an emerging and evolving business case. Circle’s second brief to Bryden Wood
for Circle Birmingham therefore reflected key features of the Circle Reading facility, while clearly stipulating a requirement for flexibility to accommodate a dynamic business case aligned with the organisation’s strategic development. Our ‘Design to Value’ philosophy applies our integrated design expertise to analyse projects exhaustively, and make sure that we deliver the solution that adds the most value. We also built on all the learning that we gather from other projects. In our earlier work on Circle Reading Hospital, we conducted extensive research into the use dynamics of a hospital, optimising the layout to deliver a hospital with a design that allowed a significantly improved experience for both staff and patients.
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