The UK’s first purpose-built transplantation centre, designed by Ryder Architecture, has received planning approval. The £30 million institute will be built at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, already world renowned for its pioneering transplant surgery.
Set for completion in spring 2011, it will contain four operating theatres equipped to undertake simultaneous organ transplants, critical care and general inpatient beds, outpatient facilities, and a 100-seat lecture theatre, seminar and meeting rooms. BAM is the ProCure21 principal supply chain partner (PSCP), with the architects Ryder, structural engineers Arup, services engineer TGA, and Waterman Group providing landscape architecture services. With natural daylight maximised and attractive views, the four-storey building with central landscaped courtyard will have “simple, clean lines” and feature traditional materials including brick, patinated copper, rainscreen, and full height curtain wall glazing protected externally with aluminium profile brise soleil. Sir Leonard Fenwick, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust CEO, said: “ Patients will benefit from a truly multi-disciplinary team approach to transplantation and we will be able to increase the number of solid organ transplants we can carry out.”
