30
PROJECT REPORT: HEALTHCARE BUILDINGS
The emphasis is on a “harmonious environment for patients, visitors and staff” which harnesses the benefits of timber for creating a warm, calm feel that’s rare for buildings of this type in the NHS
designing with the trust project team, and it must be incredibly intense for them, because they have to do it with multiple clinician teams, and keep walls between them, because they’re doing something completely different to us.”
Design approach
Alongside the clinical requirements for the departments within the building, the sustainability drivers were fundamental to the brief given to White – Woodford says in fact that “the biggest the most important thing in the brief, aside from the schedule of accommodation, was the sustainability drivers.” They were contained in a 100- page document detailing the sustainability goals; “material use, particularly natural materials, health and wellbeing, within the building fabric, air quality, landscape, green infrastructure and sustainable drainage solutions, green roofs, everything you could imagine really.” Importantly and unusually, embodied carbon targets were also included as well as operational carbon, as part of the
WWW.ARCHITECTSDATAFILE.CO.UK
aim for a minimum of BREEAM Excellent. Woodford said that one of the beneficial outcomes of putting embodied carbon at the top of the agenda was the practice questioning itself and saying: “Why don’t we take that really seriously and have that as a key pillar of our design process anyway?” He describes the lean design approach taken by White, as part of meeting these goals: “Our approach to the design was driven completely by the carbon agenda, and the best thing you can do is build less stuff.”
As part of reducing the build in order to push carbon down, White “challenged the client on car parking requirements.” They collaborated on green travel plans but in the knowledge that users tended to drive to the facility because of several issues including a lack of good local public transport. In addition, the trust wanted to maximise the use of timber in the building, but Woodford summarises the challenge of realising this aim: “We have met the
ADF OCTOBER 2024
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73 |
Page 74 |
Page 75 |
Page 76
