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The facts
Client: Skanska UK Plc.
Location: Derby, East Midlands
Services: Lead Consultant, Architecture
and Landscaping
Sector: Health
Contract Type: PFI
Project Value: £333m
Start/Completion: 2001 - 2009
The project
The new £334m Royal Derbyshire ‘Super
Hospital’ combines the existing services of two hospitals - the
Derby General Hospital and Derby Royal Infirmary - on the site of
the city’s old general hospital.
The hospital was designed by our architecture
division – Capita Architecture – and built by Skanska, as part of
the Government’s PFI programme.
The project comprised the demolition of the
pre 1970s facilities, the refurbishment of newer buildings and the
construction of a major extension to the Acute Hospital.
In total the new hospital project features
7,500 rooms, approximately 128,000 sq of new build and 29,800sqm of
major refurbishment. During the construction period the hospital’s
facilities were kept fully operational, including the Derby Medical
School (run in partnership with the University of Nottingham). In
fact, the new hospital has also become one of the largest teaching
hospitals in the UK.
The project has already been rated as
‘Excellent’ for use of resources, and ‘Good’ for quality of
services by the Healthcare Commission - making it one of the most
advanced hospital trusts in the country
The most recently completed phase of the
project - the site’s brand new Acute Hospital - features 1,159
beds, a new A&E facility, 35 Operating Theatres, Diagnostic and
Assessment departments and an Education Centre. The second phase of
construction has made provision for the new Special Care Baby Unit,
Maternity Unit and Rehabilitation Units containing clinical and FM
Facilities as well a Brachyotherapy Unit, Oncology Unit and new
Mortuary.