The next phase of development at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital has commenced on site; the Premier Inn Clinical Building will complete the Mittal Children's Medical Centre, following on from the successful opening of the highly regarded Morgan Stanley Clinical Building in 2012.
Both phases have been planned and designed by Llewelyn Davies, who, as design team leaders, will work with Skanska to deliver the project for 2017. The new building is part of an ongoing programme to redevelop some of the hospital’s oldest parts, ‘replacing outdated wards with world-class facilities, and providing more space for parents to stay by their child’s bedside’. It will include new inpatient wards with more spacious bedrooms, integrated operating theatres, and a post-anaesthetic care unit.
The Premier Inn Clinical Building will be built by deconstructing the top four floors of the hospital’s Cardiac Wing and building back up to level 9, allowing the higher levels to align with the wider GOSH ‘island site campus’, creating new links to both the Variety Club Building and Octav Botnar Wing.
The Mittal Children’s Medical Centre will increase the famous children’s hospital’s capacity by up to 20%.
Stephen Featherstone, project director, Llewelyn Davies, said: “The completion of this project will mark 12 years of continuous involvement between GOSH and Llewelyn Davies. The buildings have set new hospital design standards in the UK, and are on a par with the best in the world for specialist paediatric healthcare.”
