Former car park transformed

The Garrett Anderson Centre features Kawneer’s AA100 fully capped curtain walling, AA601 side-hung casement windows, 190 heavy duty and AA605 thermal swing doors externally, and an AA100 slope glazed rooflight over the reception. AA600 Series fixed light screens were used for the critical care bedrooms and facetted security room. Sub-contractor JPJ Installations used power suckers and cranes to lift the curtain walling into place above a glazed entrance canopy.

Built by Kier Eastern for the Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust’s PFI partner Prospect Healthcare, the £26 million, four-storey facility comprises a new accident and emergency department, critical care centre, day surgery suite, and theatres and beds for planned or elective care.

The façade combines terracotta block, rendered masonry, and insulated metal panels, complemented by Kawneer’s glazed curtain walling below and above the entrance canopy and in ribbon strips that run vertically down a whole elevation. Many of the windows feature bespoke coloured glass.