BDP along with its partners will provide architectural and technical engineering solutions to Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust for the modernisation of healthcare facilities designed for highly-specialised, paediatric and women's healthcare.
Under the contract, a team of planners, designers, engineers and cost consultants from BDP, Arup, Archus and WT Partnership will lead the redesign of Birmingham Women's Hospital, opposite the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham on Mindelsohn Way, through the introduction of a new building.
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The team will also engineer and design a new clinical building at Birmingham Children’s Hospital on Steelhouse Lane – adjacent to Waterfall House – a children's healthcare building designed by BDP and completed in 2018.
The new, innovative and energy efficient children's hospital will include emergency and theatre departments to replace the existing services, additional paediatric intensive care capacity and new, state-of-the-art inpatient wards. The women's hospital will enable the Trust to replace its inpatient wards, expand services for specific gynaecology theatres and birthing rooms and ensure sufficient capacity within its outpatient clinics.
The new designs are set to help Birmingham Women's and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust to continue improving the life chances of a generation whilst raising standards for patients and families in the region. The design approach for both buildings will aim to meet the standards set by the Government’s ambitions to deliver a 'net zero NHS' by 2050. They will also enable healthcare workers to deliver world-class outcomes for paediatric and maternity services at every level across the UK.
