This presentation will explain how collaboration between the Lincolnshire Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT), design teams, and the contractor, culminated in an award-winning mental health rehabilitation facility in Lincoln.
From initial concept to the first service users moving in, LPFT’s Ann Dodd will describe the collaborative process which enabled the Trust to procure a ‘state-of-the art’ new facility – Discovery House (pictured), which won one of only three awards presented to 13 different building projects from across the East Midlands shortlisted in the design and innovation category at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) awards. Peter Ball, strategic research director of BRE, and formerly of Costain, was involved in the early stages of the project; he also has a key role on the Chartered Institute of Building Innovation and Research Panel. Vistamatic, whose operations director, Mark Nash, will also speak, is working in close collaboration with BRE to identify the shortfalls in the specification process of products such as vision panels. A BRE report commissioned by Vistamatic recommends a regular consultation process with the Department of Health, mental Health Trusts. and organisations such as the Design in Mental Health Network. in order to understand the current operational developments and changes which may impact on the use of vision panels.
