Liverpool cancer centre will offer ‘pioneering treatment'

. The 11-storey Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Liverpool will deliver highly specialist care – including ‘pioneering immunotherapy and the most advanced forms of radiotherapy’ – to 2.4 million people in Cheshire and Merseyside, and those in surrounding areas, where people are more likely to develop cancer than almost anywhere else in the country. Ged Couser, Architect Principal at BDP, the architect project director for the project, Emma Lepley, architect at BDP, and Design Team leader at handover, and Tim Holliday, managing director of professional project management consultancy, CCL Solutions, report.

The development of Liverpool’s first specialist cancer hospital is part of a £162 m investment that also includes significant refurbishment at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre’s Wirral site. The new hospital has achieved a BREEAM Excellent rating for sustainability. It was designed by leading global architects, BDP, who also designed Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. The project was managed by PropCare, a whollyowned subsidiary of The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre. The main contractor was Laing O’Rourke, and the building was design engineered by AECOM, with the Trust’s project management provided by CCL Solutions.

Flexibility, patient choice, dignity, and access to high quality internal and external spaces, were the overarching objectives of the brief, with a great deal of consideration for streamlining processes for staff. Staff and patient representatives were included in the design process throughout.