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Queen's Hospital

Facts

Location Client Cost Completion Awards
Romford, Essex, UK Catalyst Healthcare /Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust £200m 2007 1

Project details

A new 993 bed acute PFI hospital.

A 993 bed acute hospital with a unique podium organisation of diagnostic and treatment facilities for optimum functional adjacency which includes an 18-place renal dialysis unit.

Additional buildings on site include a day nursery, an administration building, an energy centre, an eight vehicle bus station, a multistorey car park and a helipad.

... a welcome sculptural landmark.

Building magazine

Brief

  • a new acute hospital with state-of-the-art facilities to replace Old Church Hospital on a nearby site
  • a design which continues to be effective over its lifetime of the hospital

Results

  • provides the local community with the highest standards of patient care
  • for future changes in layout and equipment our flexible structural solution allows large holes to be cut in the floor slab between levels as required
  • “…a welcome sculptural landmark” Building magazine

Integrated services

masterplanning, ‘shell and core’ architecture, structural engineering, acoustics, landscape architecture (Jonathan Bailey concept architect, lead clinical planner and interior fit out)