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Emergency Care Centre

Aberdeen City

Project Details

£50M or more

New Build

Practice

Mackie Ramsay Taylor

21-23 Waverley Place, , Aberdeen , Aberdeen , AB10 1XH , United Kingdom

The practice are currently engaged on the Emergency Care Centre project for NHS Grampian. The new facility, procured through the NHS Framework, is strategically placed at the ’hub’ of the hospital and offers 8 floors of clinical accommodation (10 storeys in total); incorporating Accident & Emergency, Fracture Clinic, Imaging, Clinical Decision Unit, Operations Centre, Pharmacy, Medical & Surgical Short Stay Ward, HDU, Cancer Care, Infectious Diseases Unit, and General Ward areas dealing with Respiratory, Cardiology, Renal, and DREEMS patients, supported by office, seminar, tele-medicine, and NHS24 services. Externally, the Emergency Care Centre combines contemporary building materials with smooth white render, dark grey glazing units curtain walling, and composite cladding panels in white, grey, and silver giving an opportunity to break up the massing of the elevations. The construction cost is &70 Million and this 10 Storey building has a concrete frame and is located on a live hospital site, so construction is taking place over 3 main phases, with numerous sub-phases. The building is currently on-site and due for completion in 2012/13.