The Redevelopment Project at Walsall Hospital aims to connect the currently fragmented hospital campus by introducing a new 37,000 square-meter building that contains a diagnostic treatment center; a women’s, children’s, and young person’s center; and an education center. This PFI facility enhances the hospital with a more modern, streamlined image and forms a centerpoint for public activities in the community center.
A new public façade assists with the city center’s urban regeneration efforts while a new main entrance creates a centralized civic area linking the hospital to the community. Inside the new facility, a visual organization scheme eases circulation routes to various services and distinguishes high-volume outpatient departments from the day surgery and children’s units.
Client: Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
Project Size: 37,000 SM (398,250 SF)
• Diagnostic and Treatment Centre – 13,050 SM
• Children & Young Patients Unit – 8,650 SM
• Multi Professional Education Centre – 2,400 SM
• Common and Support Program – 12,900 SM
Project Features:
• Total PFI Project
- 136 inpatient beds
- 4 Stories
• Children & Younger People’s facility
-37 Inpatient beds
- Assessment unit
-Outpatient clinics.
• Diagnostic & Treatment Centre
- 36 Generic consultation rooms
- Specialist Outpatients
- 16 beds / 44 day spaces
- 4 Operating Theatres
-3 Endoscopy rooms
- Diagnostic support facilities
• Multi Professional Education Centre
- Library including IT access
- Lecture theatre for 120
-Seminar rooms to accommodate between 10 and 50
-Support facilities for junior doctors and medical students
- 2 Clinical skills laboratories
- Clinical IT skills laboratory
Awards:
- Business Commitment to the Environment Award – Major Commendation
- Department of Health Design Review Panel – ‘Excellent’ endorsement
- NEAT Excellent (Neat was the environmental assessment system at the time, now replaced by BREEAM Healthcare, the UK equivalent to LEED).
LEED / BREEAM Status (Sustainable design features and strategies include):
- Green roof
- Reconstituted bricks
- Natural daylight
-Highly insulated walls
Special design elements:
- Designed around intuitive wayfinding
- Operating theatres designed to be shared with existing inpatient theatres
- Designed for ease of access for high volume departments
- Integrates and shares accommodation with the existing hospital
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