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Galliford Try to build Europe’s largest IVF centre

Galliford Try has been awarded a £3.8 million contract to build Europe’s largest IVF Centre of its kind at Liverpool Women’s Hospital.

The 1,400 ft2 two-storey Hewitt Centre for Reproductive Medicine for Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust will include a modern embryology laboratory, sperm bank, egg freezing facility and dedicated recovery services.

Completion is expected by March 2009. The centre will treat annually more than 2,000 couples from Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales on the NHS, and private patients from throughout the world.

Sue Lorimer, acting CEO, Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust, said: “The unit will not only provide the highest quality environment possible for couples receiving treatment, but it also has all the advantages of being situated in a leading NHS teaching hospital specialising in women’s health.”

AA Projects is acting as employer’s agent and providing cost management services. Gilling Dod is the architect, while Alan Johnson Partnership and Hulley & Kirkwood are providing structural and building services consultancy respectively.

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