Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham

Hospital sets new teaching and healing standards.

We developed an ‘ideal hospital’ concept through intensive consultation with patients, visitors, staff and the trust’s clinical review groups.

We also analysed the trust’s clinical care model, developing ‘disease groupings’ to cut patients’ movement around the hospital and reduce the number of healthcare professionals they have to meet during their stay.

The findings enabled us to design a compact hospital with distinct, efficient realms for the public, patients, staff and services.

Meanwhile, our masterplan created a green, open hospital campus featuring characterful quarters and a public plaza.

Brief

  • design a 1231-bed acute teaching hospital
  • create an accident and emergency department, specialist burns and transplant wards, decontamination suite, operating theatres plus four separate specialist mental healthcare units (two offsite)
  • masterplan the site

Expected results

  • a regional centre of clinical excellence
  • extended patient-staff contact time
  • privacy and dignity for patients
  • better environment for staff, local residents and wildlife

Facts

Location: Queen Elizabeth Medical Centre, Birmingham, UK
Client: University Hospital Birmingham Trust
Construction cost: £559m
Construction period: 2004-2012

Integrated services

architecture, landscaping, acoustics, masterplanning