21 September 2010
Capita Architecture has been shortlisted in the ‘Best Community
Care Design’ category at the 2010 Building Better Healthcare Awards
for its work on the St Helen’s Diagnostic & Treatment
Centre.
The £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 award winners will be announced at the Brewery in London on
11th November.