10 September 2010
Capita Architecture has been shortlisted in the Healthcare category
at the 2010 Architect of the Year Awards for its work on the
following projects:
Royal Victoria Critical Care Centre Phase
2B
The new critical care centre, based on the Griffin Hospital in
Derby, Conneticut, will be the first one of its kind in the UK.
Capita Architecture has
worked with Royal Victoria Hospital for 15 years on five different
projects after successfully winning an architectural design
competition and being appointed under a Performance Related
Partnering contract for the redevelopment of Northern Ireland’s
leading hospital.
Developed in three phases, the current phase 2B (£140m) is the
Critical Care Centre. It is based on the Griffin Hospital which
provides personalised, humanistic, consumer-driven healthcare in a
healing environment, while empowering individuals to be actively
involved in decisions affecting their care and well-being.
Whiston Hospital
Capita Architecture’s design for this complex existing site is
based on the complete reprovision of all main clinical services and
wards by relocating A&E and all other clinical functions into a
single new building. The innovative approach has removed the
constraint of trying to optimise clinical relationships with the
departments based in the existing accommodation. This is further
illustrated in the team’s innovative approach to ward design which
reconciles the privacy and dignity issues of consumerism with the
need for staff observation.
Downe Hospital, Downpatrick
The £64m Downe Hospital was a winner in the Northern Ireland
category at the 2010 RIBA Awards. The hospital’s sublime setting
provided the ideal backdrop in which to develop ‘Healing by
Design’, Capita Architecture’s concept that takes hospital design
away from being just clinically functional and incorporates an
understanding of the positive effects nature and environment can
have on improving patient care. The design concept of this hospital
has been inspired by the extensive research which has proven that
the psychological aspects of your environment can reduce stress,
speed up recovery, reduce the dosage of pain killers and reduce
anxiety.
St Helen’s Diagnostic & Treatment
Centre
This £100m DTC signals the future for a significant proportion of
modern healthcare provision, acting as an outpatients-style
treatment centre rather than a 24/7 hospital. It is designed around
a dramatic central atrium which makes the whole building
intuitively easy to understand and navigate around, while being
welcoming for patients and sympathetic to the local townscape.
St Helen’s DTC also heralds a new style of building that will
revolutionise the UK healthcare construction industry. It features
a number of innovative building methods such as the off-site
construction of bathrooms and a pioneering building shell
manufacturing process. These new initiatives have delivered time
savings on the construction programme while also raising the
quality of the finishes and construction.
The competition’s judges will now undertake site visits before
the winners are announced on Thursday 04 November at a special
awards ceremony at the London InterContinental, Park Lane.