Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham

Our multidisciplinary team (architects, engineers, interior designers and landscape designers) designed the second largest hospital building project under construction in the UK. The new hospitals are set to revolutionise healthcare design.

The project comprises a 1246 bed acute teaching hospital on the Queen Elizabeth site for the University Hospital Birmingham Trust plus mental health units for the Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Trust consisting of 137 beds in three separate smaller units on the campus. Two further units of 45 and 21 beds will be developed away from the main site to provide services closer to the communities they serve with combined outreach and inreach services for local residents.

The scheme will also create world class teaching, training and research centres. A pedestrian plaza complete with public artworks will link the hospital campus with Birmingham University's medical school making it easy to transfer the skills learnt in the lecture theatre straight to the bedside. Part of the scheme will include a new clinical science centre in conjunction with the University of Birmingham designed to interface closely with service outcomes and improvements.

The Royal Centre for Defence Medicine will relocate to the new hospital and will form an integral part of the new development. It will provide new training and administrative accommodation for the RCDM.