Healthcare Infrastructure
Healthcare UK’s infrastructure offer is a composite offer. Many buyers seek an integrated solution, but our offer is designed so that they can ‘pick and mix’ the bits they want from UK suppliers.
Healthcare Infrastructure Design/Consultancy
Working out the best approaches to the design and delivery of the built environment in healthcare continues apace, accelerated by lessons being learned in response to the COVID pandemic. UK consultancies are amongst the thought leaders in developing ideas and solutions.
Some of the UK players:
1. Archus: www.archus.uk.com
Company profile: Provides strategic and infrastructure advice to health and social care clients. Specialists provide support at every stage of the asset and system lifecycle, developing strategies for future service delivery and implement changes to health systems.
2. Bryden Wood: www.brydenwood.co.uk
Company profile: A company of technologists, designers, architects, engineers and analysts who bring integrated expertise, innovation, deep experience, open minds and creativity to unravel clients’ complex problems and create exceptional solutions.
3. The Conclude Consultancy: www.conclude.org.uk
Company profile: The Conclude Consultancy spans the divide between those that design and engineer hospitals and those that work in them. Answering the fundamental questions of hospital planning – how big (or small) should this facility be? How to optimise clinical service delivery through new models of care? What impact would multi-disciplinary team working with Integrated Care Pathways have on an organisation and planning of facilities?
4. Essentia (ETL): www.etl.co.uk
Company profile: Supports the development of sustainable healthcare systems responsive to growth and changes in demand spanning all sectors including acute, community, primary care and mental health and across all aspects of health, education and research.
5. John Cooper Architecture: www.johncooperarchitecture.com
Company profile: JCA is a London based international architectural practice expert in the design of healthcare, research and academic buildings.
6. Llewelyn Davies: www.ldavies.com
Company profile: The fundamental design principles of the modern hospital were invented and shaped by the founding partners, John Weeks and Lord Richard Llewelyn-Davies. Their pioneering work, supported by extensive research at the Nuffield remains as relevant to hospital design and town planning today as ever before.
7. Mott MacDonald: www.mottmac.com
Company profile: A global engineering, management and development consultancy.
8. Space Syntax: www.spacesyntax.com
Company profile: A company that provides creative expertise in architecture & urban planning. Operating worldwide, we combine global design experience with advanced digital technologies that forecast the social, economic & environmental impacts of development.
9. Strategic Healthcare Planning: www.shp-uk.com
Company profile: A team of specialist healthcare planners with unrivalled experience and expertise in the planning and development of healthcare services and facilities. Their experience is founded on many years of work with a wide range of clients exclusively within the healthcare and related sectors. Their knowledge enables them to challenge, share, innovate and encourage best practice in the development of new services and facilities to support the ever changing and health caring environment.
Infrastructure Construction
Some of the UK players:
1. Caledonian Modular (www.caledonianmodular.com)
Company profile: More than 50 years’ experience delivering permanent bespoke buildings using a volumetric offsite manufacturing approach, Caledonian is an industry leader in the implementation of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC). This, combined with a full turnkey service covering all stages of design, architecture, planning, engineering and construction, Caledonian has the ability to deliver fast-track construction projects with a swift, seamless, effective and sustainable solution for their customers.
2. Merit Construction (www.merit.co.uk )
Company profile: Merit delivers buildings in an entirely unique manner through 4D BIM with up to 75-90% offsite manufactured value. Merit is completely committed to sustainability and their buildings as standard are zero carbon emissions with a BREEAM Excellent rating; they can also provide an option to upgrade to Outstanding. Their unique platform design is combined with offsite project delivery to provide a step change improvement in design, M&E services installation and build methodologies. Given the significant challenges posed by climate change, Merit has adopted a zero carbon emissions approach to designing and building its facilities.
3. MCC Group ( www.mccgrouplondon.com )
Company profile: MCC Group, founded in 1990, is a Medical Consultancy and Construction Group specialising in the planning, design and execution of turnkey and tailor-made projects.
4. SG Medical Units (www.modular-uk.com)
Company profile: SG Modular designs, engineers and manufactures smart, high quality modular buildings and mobile options into the UK and across the World. A truly collaborative in working with architects, engineers, planners and constructors on large scale building projects. Their team has over 20 years’ worth of combined experience in delivering modular building solutions to wide variety of clients and end users.
5. Vanguard Health Solutions (www.vanguardhealthcare.co.uk)
Company profile: Pedigree in delivering mobile healthcare solutions stretches across two decades. Vanguard’s fleet of mobile and modular healthcare facilities can offer clinical capacity across a range of general and specialist services.