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Healthcare Project of the Year
Entry Criteria
The pressure on the UK’s healthcare sector is huge. With changing demographics and budgets always a focus, the public purse has to deliver better, higher quality and more cost-effective buildings for patients and staff.
This category celebrates those projects that have used offsite technology to create a newbuild facility, a retrofit/refurbishment or extension in a streamlined way, on-time and on-budget reducing impact on clinical care. The facility can be for any type of healthcare, primary care, GP surgery, hospitals, care homes or facilities catering for age related/specialist needs.
Patient, staff and visitor experience is at the heart of successful healthcare projects, and the winner must prove that it has met the healthcare provider and/or the NHS Trust’s expectations in providing a sustainable, energy efficient and cost-effective contemporary building, whilst demonstrating how quality, cost-predictability, budget constraints, speed of installation and high levels of site-sensitivity have been achieved.
Entrant Questions:
- Describe the reasons behind the specification of offsite technology as the central construction method or key element of the project and why this approach was chosen when compared to other offsite systems or a traditional approach.
- Explain how the use of offsite technology has provided a major element in the delivery of the final project – e.g. reduced disruption for patients and staff, clinical and site-sensitivities, cost and budget-predictability, speed of installation, long term value, overall sustainability and building performance.
- Evidence how the final building/project outcome has been judged by the healthcare client, primary care trust and/or the awarding body.
- How has the project provided a unique and innovative solution when benchmarked against a ‘traditional onsite’ building approach – e.g. quality, speed of delivery, installation, planning concerns, circular economy principles, ease to extend/deconstruct, health and safety and long-term maintenance.
- Describe the collaborative working methods across the offsite construction supply chain and involvement with the NHS Trust/authority/clinical team – did they play a leading role in choosing offsite as a key construction method and would they specify it again?
