Teaching, Trauma and Tertiary Care Centre (3Ts)

BDP’s solution fits a large scale hospital sensitively into its historic context. The topography of the site is fully exploited with the mass of the building broken down into fingers, which contain the bulk of the ward accommodation and face south with views over the English Channel.

Two new state-of-the-art hospital buildings will bring Elderly Care, General Medicine, HIV and Clinical Infection wards up to modern standards, and establish the hospital as the Major Trauma Centre for the region.

The new build will include 361 beds, 75% of which will be in single en-suite rooms, a helipad and additional parking spaces underground.

Brief

  • redevelop the Royal Sussex County Hospital on a very constrained site
  • replace 200 year old buildings with modern facilities for the provision of 21st century healthcare

Results

  • a reinvigorated sense of place and an environment that is as reassuring and welcoming as possible
  • the largest application that BDP’s planning team has led

Facts

Location: Brighton, UK
Client: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
Construction cost: £420m
Completed: 2017

Integrated services

architecture, environmental engineering, interior design, landscape architecture, planner

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