A new e2.25 million cancer care unit at Cork University Hospital, designed by architects Watkins Gray International for the Irish Health Service Executive’s estates department, and built by Pierse Contracting, is now complete.
It is formed from a conversion of existing hospital wards to create a new centre specialising in mammography, commissioned as part of a government initiative to promote cancer awareness and treatment in southern Ireland. The project involved the removal of all existing internal walls and long corridors, and saw “curved and irregularly shaped units” introduced to “create interest and variety”. Kevin Harwood, of Watkins Gray International, said: “Bold colours and feature textures and materials were employed to soften the potentially stressful patient experience.” Mechanical and electrical contractors were JV Tierney, structural engineers, Arup Consulting Engineers, and quantity surveyors, Bruce Shaw Partnership.
