This famous hospital (formerly the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital), adjacent to listed buildings and within Bloomsbury conservation area, has been partially rebuilt with the retained areas totally refurbished. The building provides facilities for UCLH and children’s out-patient facilities for Great Ormond Street Hospital.
The project consisted of a major refurbishment in a highly constrained city centre. As the building occupied the whole site footprint all deliveries had to be very carefully orchestrated, with no space available on site except for that inside the building.
The project involved complete demolition of the existing lift, stair and toilets, plus the boiler room and ancillary areas. This provided a challenge as the project was closely situated to both Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology. Demolition had to be very sensitive so as not to disturb the CT scanners, MRI, as well as other sensitive imaging equipment used by the hospitals. The National Hospital for Neurology also contains a fully occupied ITU ward, only a few yards away from the project site.
A new enlarged courtyard was created to the rear, providing a series of stepped terraces to ensure a large amount of natural light reaches the lower levels. The areas refurbished were the consulting and treatment rooms, the conference centre, administration block, pharmacy, information centre, archiving suites, physiotherapy department and a café.
Client: UCLH NHS Trust
Value: £18 million
Dates: 2007 - 2008
Area: 32000sqm
Status: Completed